El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

i@WOU may tel girls for me that If
they want a life OF real hard
work. 20 50 on the stage" said
Miss Gudrun Waluerg. OF the Ny
Z Sunshine Lady company. now play
{ ing the Crawford theater-
There is lots OF satisfaction in be-
ing on the s age, Of course; you have
the satisfaction Of having people ap-
plaud you and tell you, when they
know YOU, how wonderful you are ana
All that-but you never arrive az this
stage until you have worked hard for
TO begin with. you must have
talent 10 90 on the stage. Then YOU
must develop it. There are Few bora
gen uses that ever attain any degree
Of success without hard work lave
Warfield had a Ions. hard pull OF IL
TO get up 70 the point where he made
any money or won any fame They
all have 10 WORK for all they get
Preparing for the stage means hours
with vocal instructors and nours OF
practice. at hcme, il IL
comedy or opera you mean 10 enter.
III II IS dramatic work you are 10 take
up. then u meauE 5sist as nard p OK
with a dramatic instructor and as
hard Study at home
NO matter which line you take up,
you never start IN al the top Many
a future prima donna has started IN
the back row OF the chorus, then has
top. Prima donnas have been made
over night, but they are Few. Most OF
them work I'D just as a man builds NJ
his butcher business-by hard effort
aOnee you reach the point
where the audience npuluuds you
getting I'D Is not bard after that
and applause Is the sweetest
music in the world 10 the ears Of
an actress, for Il means that she
q pleasing and to PLEASE the
audience means that you are sue
cessful and being successful
means that you can get the
money.
You may be an artist. but in these
days OF a dollar for ham and eggs at
a lunch counter. the actress must look
10 the money end Of the life. too. But
even with your success ana your
money within your grasp, stage life
IS not easy, for the best paid actress
must get up Just as ear-J as lAe
smallest paid chorus girl 20 eaten
mOrniuE trains ana I think every
morning train in the world leaves az
SIX o'clock or earlier IL they con =
managers all seen set upon eaten
ing a train that leaves that early.
Take a days Work-SunQal. lor
instance. We played matinee in the
afternoon and gave another peI1or-
nance at night This meant that We
had TO De in the theater at 1880 IN the
afternoon and we do not get out
nTILM LLlH ext A-aiAA GA time ANA a 49,
dinner in the evening. until after u
at night We have no show Non
DAY, So we could sleep, as there was
no performance until night, but, say
FL Paso was small town. we sno-l4
have been forced 20 get out Of Fl
P-so on the earliest morning tram q
Monday or, even sunday night % Z
train was le. wing for our next stop
I'VE are not fortunate in Gaze ing
four-nfght engagements orten' sucn
rs we have been here and every once
in awhile we run into the influenza
and have 10 lay off for night and
that means loss Of salary
Nowadays, the hotels are ali so run 3
that 1t is hard 20 get room-almost
impossible in the smaller towns 70 F.
get one with a bath-and the result
IS that we live, as we say, in our
handbags our trunks can only Pc r
had when we stop at city Ior three +
or more days Then. for Driel time 7
we may deck ourselves out bit Tor &
the street and get out a new dress or /,
rev underwear for the next few days
I'VE often, in making one night
stands, cannot get laundry for sew
eral days. Then it Is case Of going
dirty or carrying big lot Of clot1lnE
and. sometimes. even In towns like
IN Paso. the laundries do not get