Show When Is an Actor an Artist It is in a word the power of feeling that marks the artist all else is but the mechanical i me-chanical side which is common to all the arts There are many born actors who have never faced an audience as there are many true poets who have never written averse a-verse and painters who have never taken a palette in hand To some only is given the power of expression as well as of feeling feel-ing and they become artists in the sight of the world as the others are in the sight of our semidivine mistress tho art universal uni-versal Salvini in Century |