Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-28
GIRL SAYS STAGE
GLAMOUR PASSES
Marie Doro Says Disappoint-
ments Soon Rob FootIights
of Their Charm.

Anne Warwick. author of the the
atrical novel, Victory Law" has
/ written for the May Green Book
Magazine an unusual sort Of story
about Marie Doro, the actress. The
two young women have been friends
and close companions for n number
of years, yet Miss Warwick has never
| seen Miss Doro act. She writes
about the talks they have had as
friends.
"How did it all begin?" she asked
Miss Doro one day.
Glamour" said the actress without
hesitation. 81 was u girl in board
ing school. fun of romantic notions.
The stage wasn't known then for the
hard, workaday world 1t is. From
the time 1 was a child l had thought
Of 1t as u life Of splendor and en-
chantment--a sort OF Arabian
Nights, where nothing duh or drearY
ever intruded. | was very young
when | made up my mind to be an
actress and to 20 ON the stage at the
first opportunity
She looked absurdly young at that
moment as she sat looking down at
her clasped hands, But she sighed.
a little sadly. The opportunity
Browns School, here in New York.
the winter l was sixteen. and the
atrical manager saw me act in one of
the school entertainments He spoke
to ne afterwards and. of course.
was wild with delight. ! begged him
to engage me- then and there; and
he did. So | left school. and went to
st. Paul with the Criterion Stock
Company.
And what did your family say?"
"Oh. of course they We're Mortified;
but I wouldn't listen to them. Moth
ing could stop me. 1t was my mis-
sion, my mania to go on the stage;
and | went. On the train going to
ST. Paul. ] chose my name--I was in
u fevere OF happiness over every de-
tail of the new life. Then. when we
reached St Paul. rehearsals began
and for me- disillusion.
ut wasn't the hard work. she went
on, thoughtfully. 81 was 50 mad over
acting. the work was n joy to me. 1t
was the gradual realization of the re-
sponslbility | had taken on myself.
At school one was responsible to
teachers and chaperons--a regiment
of them on the stage one became
responsible to oneself alone. For IL |
girl OF any character, o girl who |
isn't ignorant--for the modern girl |
of good class-thls is terribly Sc |
rious thing. She finds when she be- |
Comes an actress that she has |
exchanged the strict routine of the |
school-room for the far stricter |
routine of the stage. What do peo- |
pie know of her family, her standing, |
her past associations? Nothing. To |
her manager and her company as |
well as to the public, she is simply |
Marie Doro; II struggling young |
actress, to be judged by what she |
alone discloses of herself |
Seen like this, the stage loses its |
glamour, once and forever 1t be- |
comes u stern business, with oneself |
forever over one as mentor. I've |
often wished / could write ii all down |
as 1t really is, for girls who have the
same romantic notions | had, We're
so enthusiastic at the beginning, and
then we have to swallow such bitter
disappointment
But in spite of the disappointment |
you went on?" | suggested.
"Oh, yes!" Her clear, frank laugh |
rang out. girlish again. II was mad |
embroiled, as the French say. For |
nothing, would | have given up. | |
went back to New York, and played |
in The Billionaire,' then to San Fran |
cisco with Augustin DAILY. From the |
first l played big parts, for, you see, |
i'll II way / acted better then than /
do now, with all my training Then
was in the first flush;' l lived for |
the theatre and for nothing else. Ali |
that is bound TO show.
yet, when | made my first real |
hit / was stunned that 1t had come |
so soon. It was in The Girl from |
Kays.' / was in my dressing-room |
after the second act, and the mana
ger of the theatre pokcd his head in, |
and cried: Mr.. Frohman is down in |
front, and he says he's going to star
you'
~ didn't believe it. But it was
true. For though l didn't actually
star until The Morals of Marcus
played star parts in Mr. Frohman's
companies from that time on"