Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-07
Anita Stewards Talks to Girls
No. 2-Careers Real and Imaginary.
BY ANITA STEWART.

Whose wonderful work II "-rn0 G 'dders'
and The Million Dollar Sid" was the
sensation OF tho movias picture world.
Copyright. 1915. International News
Service.
Practically every giri know II career
mad. and no matter how sood home
SIR has she wants 10 leave II.
Everywhere 70 girls bac,, me up
into q corner and talk TO ne about capt al
&C" careers and fame. and thor own
lives. and the Joys end freedom. nnd hnv-
ms ones own latcAkcy. and all that SORT
OF plff,o until i've KOS what that funny
Mr. Tad calls IN car full.
And mind you, nearly all Of these girls
arc rich girls. WITH fine horuoc. aud
stacks Of good clothes. and automobiles.
and they've never done thing IN their
lives but arause themselves ard have
fun
Trey seem 70 think that FOR . gi-l TO
60 out into tho world and make her own
way IS just some sort OF ripping game
something that you cen accomplish be-
twoc- times when you arc not having n
perfectly mad tlmo at picturesque Boz
herman resorts.
Thcy think, pco- little doars, that all
that woman writer does Is to sit down
in an i1lo moment and dash off SOM
thing over which publishers fight and for
which she gets a fabulous sum.
They think that the business woman
sauatora into m office along toward the
middle OF tho day and Is taken out TO
lunch by her fascinat ng millionaire ON
ployer. who proposes 70 her over tho
coffee
And when IL comes 10 being an actress
they picture that as a grand round OF
applause and Flowers and champagne
suppers after tho play.
Home was never like this. and 80 It's
no wonder that fluffy-headed little glr's
want to rush into q thing that looks so
good from the outside, but Is, in reality,
30 hard on the inside.
Believe me. girls, a career as you think
Il and career as Il is are no more alike
than n setting on the stage is like the
real thing. The woman who achieves any
kind OF career, who even makes a liv-
ing for herself. does Il through such
labor such WEAKNESS, such sacrifice,
such crucifying OF every taste and in
clination as you have never even mag
ined IN all your soft little lives,
1t seems to you very wonderful 10 be
moying-pieture star 1t does to me.
too, for I love my work and am willing
to pay the price 1t exacts, hut IL you
imagine It bed of roses you have an
other guess. And then some more.
How would you like. for instance, on
bitter cold winter day, with iciccs
hanging to every twig, TO go forth clad
only in dlaphanous garments, through
which the wind whistled and the cold bit,
and spend six hours ct stretch riding
on slow-moving Donkey
Yet, that is what 1 had TO do when the
famous film for THE Goddess" was
being made, and when got back to the
hotel / was so nearly frozen that 1 had
TO be lifted down and carried into the
house and rubbed with alcohol TO restore
the circulation.
In that same film. clad only in goddess
raiment and with sandals on my feet, 1
had to climb mountain. and went
sobbing 18th the pain and the cold until
my tears washed off my makeup.
Another time in the Million Dollar
Bid" film l was on a yacht that was
wrecked in the bay by being run down by
another boat. and was thrown out in
the water. This reel was made about
Thanksgiving time and the water was
90 cold when I jumped into II that II
simply paralyzed me, and would have
been drowned except for the professional