The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-08-06

Henrietta Crosman Warns
Stage Struck Young Men
and Women in Hampton's
Magazine.
REAL STAGE WORK
FOR A BEGINNER

Vulnerable fake dramatic schools which
fatten upon ignorant and simple stage.
struck youth, causing the ruin Of hun.
dreds and driving many to suicide, Is
the revelation made by Miss Henrietta
Crosman, the noted actress, in an article
In the August number of Hampton s
Magazine.
Miss Crosman, before exposing the
methods of the psuedo and fake schools,
says:
"Inasmuch as l myself began on the
stage and not in a dramatic school, |
admit | am prejudiced in favor of real
stage work for a beginner. | believe
in going up in balloons to learn bal.
looming; it may break your neck, but
then, there is something actual, and
decisive even, in n broken meek. With
equal fran ness, However l will admit
that some OF the best stars on the
American stage ;oday, came out Of the
good dramatic schools in New York,
Chicago and Boston; and that, there.
fore, "A good word might be said for
some of these schools and their sys.
TENS.
"The trouble is, most candidates for
stage education are beginners; and the
inevitable and pathetic quality of a
beginner is that he docsn Z know any.
thing about the subject threatened"
"Instead of going on the stage, thou.
sands of stage struck youth are lurea
to the schools of made.to.order emotion
and then to shattered ambition.
al have watched the operations of
these stage sycophants for years" says
Miss Crosman. land am firmly of the
opinion that the great bulk of them
always excepting the worthy few
are undoubtedly pernicious in their in.
%fluence and are designed to take money
from the silly and ambitious but i'm
possible amateur. II the dramatic
schools encouraged only the people who
had real talent, they would have very
few pupils; but | have yet to hear of
an applicant To n dramtic school being
refused on the ground that he or she
had no natural gifts"
Appeal to Girls
Miss Crosman's words have the
weight of long experience and wisdom,
She concludes her article in Ilamp.
ton : with an appeal 10 every paren, and
stage ambitious young person should
read.
"Girls.' she says. edo you feel that
YOU must go on the stagei Are you
sure that years from now YOU will not
he a total failure as an actress and as
a womani For the odds are great
that IT You are not successful on the
] stage you yourself will follow the path
: that 40 many others have trod. Ne
i cessity is n difficult thing to face, and
necessity makes many a woman DO a
lot of things she would not think OF
doing IL there were any other way Il
face the condition that confronts heI
after failure. could tell YOU cases
Of girls by the score, girls myself
nave seen gradually change from then
simple country ways TO an acceptance OF
the mean RIGHTEOUSNESS of the big cities
! after reaping the inevitable fruit OF
! original Incompetence. The pity Of il
is that all this annual contribution al
bright.eyed womanhood 10 failure ha'
not advanced the stage one bit, has no
added one per cent of wortny acting u
the annals of the state.
81 want YOU to understand that u
one with genuine talent-and they mr.,
comparatively few-the stage is jus
as safe ms a business Office, II is terri
flying TO consider a legion of youn,
3 people who after trying in vain sin
! ia the easiest and briefest way Of MAX
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