El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-15
The Reason Why Actors and
Actresses Look Younger
Than Most People.
~ YORK. D.. 15.-How d

EW- YORK, Dec 15-"HOW DC
actors keep young?"
4 This is a question proposed
to me by a woman friend not of the
profession" recently. I thought over
It quite a while, considering rest
cures,' complexion remedies, marital
states, modes of dress, and exercise
regimes. and finally concluded that
these missed the main point.
1t is the attitude of mind That's
it. And its something more than fore
ing oneself TO feel young Its feel
ing young without forcing oneself to
try. Therefore, 1t can't be taught,
which is only another way of saying
that a good actor IS born and not
made
OF course I do not deny that certain
things assist in preserving man.
But the great standby Of the actor IS
his bOuyant spirits and constant
change, the rushes across the CONT
nent, the meeting of new friends, and,
most Of all, the assuming Of many
characters on the stage
See how the tango otherwise "the
dansante"J is bringing TO life the
gray heads of society. Thousands Of
down and out Fifth ATenuerss men
who thought they must spend their
lives slouched in deep leather chairs
at their clubs, have sprung from their
stupOr and today are dancing and
prancing in the firm conviction that
they are twenty-five again
The factor has Always been tan
gOeT, If not in fact, then in spirit.
Perhaps his lightheartedness had its
start centuries ago when even the
best Of his number must worry at
fines over the next mug Of ale. The
tradition has stayed.
Ny friend, OrTin Johnson, who is
leading man in The Marriage Game
at the Gaiety theatre, agrees with me
absolutely in my analysis Of stage
O. q
He has been playing jueniles for
years unnumbered and says he has
difficulty in preventing the Broadway
managers from casting him into little
While a bachelor. Mr.. Johnson thinks
married life fits in quite nicely with
keeping young,
Where will you find more variety
than is furnished some married men2'
He asked "A physician recently
told me the prescriptions ne would
write for old age were the bald
headed row for men and an encourage
ment of vanity IN both men and WO-
men
Have many interests and live as
many different lives in one IS posi-
saThat is exactly where actors have
the best Of it They, if they are
good actors and enter into their parts
at all, live many lives. and have the
opportunity Of giving their private
lives so much rest that they are prac-
ticalIy doubled A long time ago I
laid out a regimen for myself. and
have adhered to it strictly I insist
on nine hours sleep, Tor one Tnlng,
abstemiOusnesS in eating as well as
drinking, and I walk eight or ten
miles a day. But the mental attitude
Things That Count
Christmas eve is a strong motive
in "The Things That Count" a plea
SAINT play by Laurence Eyre, which
has opened at Maxine ElliOtfs thea
ter I was especially interested in the
piece because Miss Alice Brady, daugh-
ter of William Brady, the producer, is
cast for the leading role 1t IS one Of
the most pretentiOus parts she has Yet
attempted to fill, but she carried off
the hOnOrs easily
Of course. you want TO know first OF
all what are the things that count.
They are children-What a famous EO-
man matron once called her Jewels"
Four of them TOmp through the play.
The only son of the wealthy Mr. and
Mrs. Kennaberry marries an actress
and the aged couple, possessing a pre-
judice against the people Of the stage,
rare nowadays. drive him out into
the world Perhaps he would have
made good and been able to laugh
them to scorm, but, instead of this,
he dies soon His wife and daughter
are in danger of starvation or worse.
It is Christmas eve when Mr.. Ken
naberry, a henpecked man, is en-
abled by the aid Of his butler to go on
a visit to his daughter-in-law, then
living in an east side tenement
Mrs kenua berry who bv the way
IS not always a fierce old dOWager,
now suspects her husband of that hor-
rible q may also add rare) crime,
leading a double life.
Tt chances that Mrs. KennaberrV
finds her granddaughter not knowing
who she is. as happens in plays and
novels She decides to brighten the
lives of the little east siders of the
neighbOrhOOd- Into her granddaugh-
ter's home she invites the children,
until she has a big party.
But unluckily, the parents Of the
children come, too. A race war breaks
out. between an Irish and an Italian