Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-21

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Fifteen hundred million human beings live the earth
of kinds spend the year laboring
for their fellows.
Tens of thousands work making clothes.
few savage natives practice holding breath
dive for pearls.
Others shovel coal in burning furnaces.
preach opinions and criticisms of
things in general
Millions work at producing food and few millions do
nothing, but live upon the work that others do.
To-day class enough appreciated class
of VERY HARD-WoRKING MEN AND WOMEN, the actors
and actresses whose task to cheer and inspire their
tired melancholy fellow creatures.
Ours is melancholy people VERY melancholy in spite of
tango and comic supplements" Look at
toward the end of the day and hardly
smiling Care sits shoulders and worry travels with
to and fro.
The actor the playwright the manager form the
work life less gloomy restore by hard the
Cheerfuness that civilized life drives from
The cheerful workers and the least appreciated
of the stage You finished product
do the years study the hard
months of preparation for single performance
It all easyand that very the result of the
hardest kind of work
From the genius of the comedian that great TRACE
dian the most important thing absence of all apparent
effort And many theater wishing that they could
a good living easily
If the hard work could be seen the patient ETERNAL
rehearg the effort necessary get message play
wright into the brain of the audience with the simple method
that success all the hard patience pre-
cedng production could be and appreciated the public
would realize that che actor who life cheerful
HARD, PATIENT WORKER.
The who manages play, risks his Judgment his
money endures patiently the stupidity
public, is another entitled to sympathy.
He puts lifetime of study his work. discovers and en-
the paywrghtstands the loss of the poor work.
held the highest price for the good year
in and out butt of the charming crticho nothing
in particular himself but lives harsh judgment of others
Sympathize with that manager-he needs your sympathy
your praise for the orbearance which possible
self4satisfed critics to reach old age
And sympathze actress who every day
must live the high standard and make another reputation
The doctor lawyer other professional repua
ton gained in the past.
But the actor depends WHAT HE LAST NIGHT
The public that appauds him to-day leaves him tomorrow
ihealth change public fancy has essened his value
Every day and the build himself up.
Woe to him if he fails once; he is gone
When the actor the who controls
of putting ideas into other mems minds.
The who makes you laugh valuable to the world
perhaps valuable of all in this that perpetuay
the verge of pessimism and despair
But the who changes gloom mirh element
in the world of stage
New ideas taught stage old abuses are
the stage
1t desirable that should hate stage has
done than agency perhaps church. make
hateful
Actors charitable above all workers They are
eternay called upon give chartyand ALWAYS
they respond great disaster charity fund ben
eft for poverty old ageany worthy appeal finds the
whole world of the stage ready and willing
Think of this result of hard
work and uatient rehearsal