New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-30
The All Corners Tilt in
Europe Makes Jobs
for Actors Scarce.
Bv EARL n. FINDLEY.

"BE war has made theatrical manager
careful They do not know what 20 do
The public stands around looking at the
bulletin boards in front Of newspaper
Offices in the evening, guessing whether Brussels
Is German or Swiss, till midnight and after. This
excitement costs the public nothing. Instead OF
sending out six companies 70 enact Broadway
success, as they did last year, the managers IN
many instances have decided TO send out one and
two, and not until later than usual.
In England the situation is There is so
little demand for actors IN London just now that
some Of them have gone to work policemen
From the biz scene in the second act 70 walking
beat beneath q helmet IS tough. From kissing
the heroine lingering eoodby at $50 week
eight kisses week. including mstinees-to stand
ing in Trafalgar Square directing buses how no.
20 run into the Nelson Column, is worse than any
thing that has been reported i'm America, unless
the present rage for children on the American
sage may be likened 70 it.
Many Of last seasons successes depended
the work of children. Many children, as a conse
Quence. are able 10 say TO their parents. both OF
whom are probably actors looking for work
Don't worry; I've got job In The Poor Little
Rich Girl OF The Dummy" or some such play
GREAT DIFFICULTY IN BREAKING AWAY
FROM THE "AT LIBERTY" COLUMN.
few nights ago an actor who has had his
Broadway successes and is finding it hard, if no;
impossible to break out Of the AT Liberty" col
umn IN the theatrical papers said he didn't have
anything against the Kaiser, but he wished he
might get up some fine morning soon and read
that somebody had put stop TO the whole silly
t, tling-ve had been talking about the war-as It
made al the managers afraid, all the actors IN
easy and had the playwrights reading their plays
q, themselves while the whole theatrical shoot
ing match was marking time and playing safe in
stead Of 5. K. O.
There are only heart aches and feet in
locking for Job, this actor said and he, for one
and he guaranteed TO get thousands Of sigma
lures from members OF the profession who held
similar opinion failed TO anything funny in
any attempt 20 poke fun at bunch Of hard
working. ambitious artists. who arc forced by the
Kaiser or whoever will be proved the instigator
of this wal, 10 90 up and down Broadway looking
for job.
The way the actor looked as ne said It left no
doubt Of his inability TO relish any japery aimed
al the industrious performer, who only asks the
privilege Of leaving town. headed West, engaged
20 play one night stands from till May, when
IL will perhaps be discovered by the press that
there has not been any fighting in Europe and the
war correspondents Will all be back looking for
work That would be funny. HI could laugh at
ID situation like that himself.
lie wouldn't laugh at the war correspondents
IN any spirit Of meanness, but just the fact that
the newspapers should finally announce their
error. and explain that there had, as matter Of
fact been no casualties because there had been no
war. would he thought, justify an actor, or any
other ARTIST in indulging in a bit Of smile.
But he would not laugh at war correspond
ents, who, just because there was no war were
thrown out Of their jobs. Personally, he did not
believe IN an that DR.. Cook reported in connec-