Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16

commit this folly, nor will they take any hint,
profit by any warning. There is always some
old friend or relative to say anxiously:
you are putting by, aren't you, Nellie, child?
This is your harvest tme-you are saving for
the future?"
The answer never changes-'I shall begin to
save next season, my DEAR
Then follows the usual excuses. Her expenses
have been so heavy this season-and she must
go abroad this Summer-an actress is so pro-
vincial who has never been in London Paris.
But next season--oh, yes, she means to own her
own home before she quits the business and
next season.
That next" season will only open with the
millennium. Then there comes to her that in
credible thing bad season, and she searches
the world for excuses. There have been great
fioods-or fres-or panic in Wall Street-or
it's a Presidential election that's on. Anything,
anything rather than acknowledge the truth that
the public wants a change, that the play is worn
out
Now, if she is real star, playing on per-
centage she loses money heavily and rapidly
for Just as money pours in when everything is
right, just so it rushes away when everything is
wrong Reduced income, sustained expenses,
land her on the verge of the quicksands of debt.
Will she draw in the pursestrings? Will she
retrench, reduce expenses bit, live more
modestly, till new play helps her to her feet
again? She will not. She honestly believes in
the power of show. She puts up what she calls
"a good 'front.' and goes into debt to do it. She
believes that If she let's that French cat with
her earrings, or that ChitCissie Lozenge with
her peck of pearls outshine, outdress her, she
will be suspected of being in straits, and that
managers will look coldly on her
Bankrupt at Last.
There is to be new play Gambling ON a
chance, she borrows wildly-as of course, the
play will put her right with every one. The play
fails, and she, she gaily chases into bankruptcy,
sheds her debts as snake sheds its skin and
comes forth resplendent-one of the best dressed
women in New York.
But there are those who feel that bankruptcy
is dainty, beautifully decorated net, with
which the devil himself takes captive the deli
cacy, the pride, the honor and the sensibility
of women, leaving them coldly Indifferent to
others pain or need. know of these bank
rupt ladies', and so twisted is her reasoning that
she really feels herself rather noble when she
publicly acknowledges obligations she never in
tended to discharge.
One may seek the bankruptcy courts relief
once with good intentions, no doubt, but the
woman who goes into bankruptcy two or three
times would take pride in being called the
greatest debt dodger of her day
At all events, bankruptcy pays better than
acting does, and | would not be surprised to
hear of a golden rule being in use reading:
do unto others what you would not have
others do unto you. Borrow money of them"
But, oh, the pity of it all-the strain the sacri-
flee in honor of the great god, dress, in whose
beauty they bask, in whose power they believe.
Charlotte Cushman. Miss Lota Maggie Nit
che kept their savings and they are the neces-
sary exceptions to make the rule that all actresses
lose their money, some by the folly treachery
there you are,