Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1935-04-04
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II do not. mean that they don't
write the last act first. They begin
at the beginning. and work along, not
knowing where they are going, and
when they get through they have got
some place they didn't want to get
and don't know how to get straight
ened out.
II don't believe there was ever q
successful play which wasn't written
backwards. And know there was
never successful play that wasn't
written over three or four times be-
Z fore 1t was ready for the stage"
1t occurred to me this situation II
not confined to playwriting.
Most people are like the man in the
song, who didn't know where h. was
going, but was on his way.
They fancy that somehow or other
they will arrive somehow or other.
They never look ahead at al.
AS well might skipper of steam
ship start out on a voyage without
any compass, and without even keep
ing "dead reckoning and he certain
to reach .ie port for which he is
headed.
.
Pick your objective first, and then
keep It in mind.
It is true that some men do many
things BADLY before they ever learn
to do one thing well.
But they don't need all sorts Of
scattering experiences.
! know 1t is hard for anyone to find
just what he is best fitted for.
But he must find it, sooner or later,
II he doesn't want to be a failure.
And, II he has good mind, and
plenty Of patience he can find it.
After that the going, though 1t will
still be hard. will not be so trouble
some.
Mr.. Emerson has told US that ,Ue ought
TO hitch our wagon to star, by ,Ohich
he means that ,Ce ought to ain, as high as
zoe can.
But we must keep in sight what
we are aiming at, or we are lost.
There Is man in New York who
is extremely successful as play
wright.
When he first arrived in the town
he wrote play after play, and failed.
Then, needing money with which to
buy food he took Job in q chemical
concern as salesman.
In this he succeeded very well, and
soon had a competence.
And as soon as he had that com
petence, he got small job in play
and continued to aspire to be a star.
1t took him twenty years, but he
made 1t at last, and is now one of the
country's most famous dramatists.
believe college education is an
excellent thing. l have sent two boys
andia girl ito college.
College do mot regret 1t.
or Not9 Neither, my children
tell me, do they.
But II you can't 60 to college, don't
worry about It.
You have plenty Of company.
Shakespeare managed ito get along
without college education.
So did thousands of Others OF the
worlds greatest and most learned and
useful men.
College education is valuable. It tells
young people who are at a loose end
about the future how ito study and
what. to study.
It throws them, .on the campus, into
contact with many peOple-people who
differ as widely as humanity.
II you want an education, you can
get 1t in college.
II you don't want one. you can still
graduate by doing just enough work
to get through.
Or you can drop out.
But remember that anything you
start deliberately is worth going
through with.
However, II you are needed at home
to help the family, II the household
funds give out for .one reason or an
other you can help by going ito work,
don't spend the rest Of your life re-
GREETING your lack of education.
Go out and get the education your
self, as thousands and thousands Of
young people have done and are doing.
Read good books and good newspa-
pers. Cultivate the acquaintance Of
well-informed people.
Mix as much as you can with all
and sundry.
You will find that there are very
few people from whom you cannot
learn something useful-from the man
who knows In an instant what's the
matter with q broken down ear and
what to do about It. to the circus pea
mt peddler who. II you get him talk
ing, can give yeu an excellent and
Worth-while lecture on craftsmanship.
II were starting over again, / think
should 60 to college, II my parents
could well afford to send me.
didn't. however. SO that is that.
But didn't stand around ana
grieve over Ii.