The Cairo bulletin., 1906-06-19

paicu louu VI queer HOTELS, three OF
four hours work each night In badly
ventilated surroundings filled with
DARTS, and attended all the time by
! a high nervous strain, couldn't be
blamed If she did not look her best
/ all the time
Yet the life Of the actress is filled
! with all these things, and the longevi-
ty of the actress beauty is phenome-
nal. remarks a writer In the Chicago
! Tribune. One OF the answers to the
conundrum Is that the woman Of the
I stage regards worry rs excess bag
gage that she will not carry.
+ Eliminating worry aud regarding
4 beauty as an end rather than means
has given the stage flower garden of
feminine loyeliness. II Ia doubtful
whether there are many women In the
world who at Sarah Bernhardt's age
| could do her work, do 1t one-tenth as
we'll and retain onertwentieth of the
| beauty that still enclrcles the divine
Sarah's blond tresses. Amelia Sum
merville would laugh if she were
linked with Bernhard, yet she Is one
of many actresses who have actually
reconstructed themselves to keep up
with the theatrical procession. Those
who remember her as THE Mountain
Maid in Henry e. Dixey's great sue
cess, "Adonis." knew her as d slender
young woman of exceedingly great
pulchritude Now, after years, she has
returned to the stage, which she left
ItAs4ra oh u 4
and she Is lighter by many, many
pounds than she was Lillian Russell's
good looks and the way she keeps
them are classic. Lily Langtry, al
belt she played behind softly tinted
footlights the last time she was in the
United States. still retains most Of the
attractiyeness that made her known
all over the world as 1.-THE Jersey
Lily" There are other examples with
out number.
Actresses Danish worry as much as
they can, yet there are among them
women who look upon the first pre-
sentation of new play with sort Of
dread that becomes hysteria upon
slight provocation. The worries Of life
are many, and ii takes a strong spirit
to subdue them all The physical in
eonveniences forced upon women Of
the stage are not known nor under
stood by women who lead sheltered
lives. BODY wearing and nerve rack
ing rehearsals begin the season for
them. They are not fully paid for
them, and. after a hot and exhausting
summer they are often i'm bad physi-
cal condition for hours of work daily
in oYerheated rooms. When the play
is produced there begins series of
long railroad jumps, often over bad
and not always in sleeping
or parlor cars. The hotels in the
smaller towns are often dyspepsia
breeders of the worst possible descrip.
ton. Working at night is not good
for anybody, me doctors will tell you.
Yet the actress has to work at least
six nights week. often seven, with
always one matinee performance, al
most always two. and sometimes one
every day. The limit of matinees
seems to have been reached in three a
day, which was the bill of fare for one
of the days Of THE Lion and the
during its last run at Pow
ers' theater Then there are always
and careful attention tc
necessitates much work and
not a little worry.
Lillian Russell and many other
of the stage have turned ta
Christian Science. Others take mp
mental culture in one form or another,
al striving TO place mind over mat
er, and so eliminate many of the
horns that otherwise would get into
heir flesh
They emerge from their hard toll
healthy and happy. surprisingly
mall number of them fall i'll, when all
heir hardships are taken into consid.
ration. Days off, are unknown ex-
cpt I'm the rarest instances. Little
edna Wallace Hopper took a day Of
o go to the races in New York tive
ears ago, and paid a fine amounting
0 the average matinee receipts OF
The Silver Slipper" Every actress is
med for every performance she
misses The understudy always is
and the actresses go on work
ng and looking well when many
gomen not in the theatrical business
you'd be at home in a physicians
are. Still. they retain their beauty.
Almost without exception they are
luch older than they look-or to pat
more CALAMITY. look much younger
han they are-and the way they
les that no man can solve.
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