The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
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moro attracted Nv - youthful, tfctty rcrson
~ tho head ~ tho show thio by ono ~ real
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get hold ~ young women who could b"
made to rnrvn NJ stars The consequence
vas TINT beautiful incompctents found
Themselves wearing the laurels that uscd
10 90 to Clara MorriR, Helena Modjcska and
Ada RshAn. Now AL these young things
have either gone into vaudeville q" are glad
TO In We plaocs in stock companies,
scarcely one ~ these young women
survived can recall one who kept in the
foreground on Pccount Of her beauty and
unusual p~ersonality. but the majority have
disappcared altogether "a stars There
will not I've q new crop until the cycle OF the
afro fashions has swung around again.
while the managers manufactured stars
Just as they hired theatres, the public did
not suffer by the NJ pearance OF the new
stars. The managers were too shrewd
to reckon on any great drawing power
in these young persons, and they were
near stars just as good as II merely the
play was to be exploited. Those succeeded
who had been lucky enough to get hold OF
the good plays. It was always the play
that settled their fate.
into existence through these young and
ready made ones. Women who had served
a creditable apprenticeship on the stage
and gained some reputation saw them
selves passed by in favor Of others with
nothing but their youth, their looks or some
trick Of manner to recommend them. So
these older actresses began to think 1t
was necessary to their professional dignity
for them to go out and be stars, too.
4They did not find It 80 easy as the
not looking for talent so much as for youth
and rood looks. These older actors and
actresses had to be content with managers
Of less importance or put up their own
money for their ventures. They were not
much more successful than their younger
aOne woman could have earned q salary
of at least 5000 a week in New York II she
had been contented to act the parts which
were suited to her; but she wanted to be
a star and nothing else could satisfy her.
She tried play after play until the managers
told her they could finance the. scheme
no longer. She was determined, however,
not to give up. She backed herself until
had saved were gone. Then she borrowed
from her friends, only to lose that, too.
She stuck it out, however, until there was
absolutely no place for her to turn for
money. Then she settled down and Is
now looking for any kind of a job that may
Another woman who could not be a star.
although she was sure Of long and lucrative
engagements in the best companies, alter
mated acting the kind of parts for which the
starred as long as the money that she had
saved up from her good engagements would
hold out. =,
THE cases Of these two women are typical
OF Une Ql1eTeUCe IN tne ulsCONeIy Vi tueSs
later day stars. When a man or woman be-
came astar in the past, it was because their
fame grew too great for the stock company
or the city in which they we're playing.
Other cities wanted to see them act. II
they were in a company in Boston or Albany
the public Of other cities heard Of them and
wanted to see them. So they travelled
about acting in the various cities as stars
and not as regular members of the stock
company"
The managers are not the only ones who
are quite reconciled at the lack Of new stars.
The actors like il just as well. OF course.
when these young stars were made, they
did not receive anything like the compersa-
ton paid to the few big people in the bust
ness. They got merely a good salary. Now
the actors who have earned a creditahle
place for themselves in the profession would
not think of accepting an offer to starin til
way that was so popular a few years ago.
At the head of a comrany they have the
same privileges thet they would enjoy rs
stars, and they get about as much moncy.
They are sure, too, of gettingit all sea son, as
their contracts are likely to read that wa
when they are engaged by equitable man