The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-06-08
the SECRET OF YOUTH.

the SECRET Of YOUTH.
one y Reason Hard-worked Actress
Keeps Her Youth and Beauty Be-
cause She Doesn't Worry.
IA woman who tried to preserve her
beauty BY q course Of night rides In
railroad trains, poor and poorly pre-
pared food at queer hotels. three or
four hours, work each night In badly
ventilated surroundings filled with
DARTS, and attended all the time by
q high nervous strain, couldn't be
blamed II she did not look her best
I'll 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 writer in the Chicago
Tribune. One Of the answers to the
conundrum is that the woman OF the
stage regards worry as excess bag
gage that she will not carry.
Eliminating worry and regarding
beauty as an end rather than means
has given the stage a flower garden OF
feminine loneliness. It is doubtful
whether there are many women in the
world who at Sarah Bernhardt's age
could do her work, do it one-tenth as
we'll, and retain one-twentieth of the
beauty that still encircles 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 slender
young woman of exceedingly great
pulchritude. Now, after years, she has
returned to the stage, which she left
because she had become too corpulent,
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
attractiveness that made her known
all over the world as '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 it takes a strong spirit
to subdue them all. The physical in
conveniences 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 hot and exhausting
summer, they are often in bad physi-
cal condition for hours of work daily
In overheated rooms. When the play
Is produced there begins a series of
long railroad jumps, often over bad
railroads, 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, the 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
Mouse" during its last run at Pow
ers' theater. Then there are always
rehearsals, and careful attention to
clothing necessitates much work and
not little worry.
Lillian Russell and many other
women of the stage have turned to
Christian Science. Others take up
mental culture in one form or another.
all striving to place mind over mat
ter, and so eliminate many of the
thorns that otherwise would get into
their flesh.
They emerge from their hard toll
healthy and happy. A surprisingly
small number of them fall ill, when all
their hardships are taken into consid-
Grafton. days off" are unknown ex-
cept in the rarest instances. Little
Edna Wallace Hopper took a day off
to go to the races in New York two
years ago, and paid a fine amounting
to the average matinee receipts Of
'The Silver Slipper" Every actress is
fined for every performance she
misses. The understudy always is
waiting, and the actresses go on work.
ing and looking well when many
women not in the theatrical business
would be at home in a physicians
care. Still, they retain their beauty.
Almost without exception they are
much older than they look-or, to nut
1t more CALAMITY, look much younger
than they are-and the way thew
achieve that result is one of the NM,
zles that no man can solve.
Covert Coat.
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