Show S THE ACTRESS OF THE FUTURE Yvette Y ette Guilbert has been outlining the career of the actress of the fu Lu future future ture She belong to no nation and no city She Sh will VIII be international She will vill act in New York Berlin Rome Borne aris anis and London She will play pla moreover in the lan Jan languages of these those cities To learn them w will U be a part of ner ter er preparation As yet et none f the schools has added to it courses But within certain limitations what Mine Guilbert prophesied has al already already already ready begun Between this country and England the interchange of actresses has be become become become come an established custom The Tho ad advantage a advantage vantage is still on the side of the Eng lish actresses in one ono way wa t They Th y still sUU make more money over hero here than American players do O in London Olga Mrs Campbell Ellis Jef Jeffreys Jeffreys Jeffreys freys have no counterpart coun among the te American actresses who have gone to London The only two Americans who have fc found f lasting success in London are arc E Edna dna May and Gertrude Elliott But Buta a number of others have hoye found round regular ei employment e in less important post positions positions ti ions t Fay Davis Dayis was ne of th se seAs As yet Americans accept English si sig stars tars s more unreservedly and ancl an with g greater reater warmth than they take i IAmer Amer American I ic ican i caul leading women It would lOt pay W Maude Adams Annie Russell Mrs Carter arter C to go to London Lond 1 and play there therell fill all a ll winter They would lose thousands th of o f dollars On the other hand han jt i I good American merican A season will add thousands thou to tt the he t bank account of an English ac actress actress acress S tress t ress As regards Continental Europe Etrope the thease case ase c is Different There are few if ir irany any a ny American actresses who speak German GeIman or French well enough to at attempt tempt empt t to act before an audience au of vf ither either e nationality Foreigners are arc much more adaptable I Rhea and Janauschek al aU learned earned l English and succeeded Fritzi Fritz cheff Scheff in a very very short time mastered English well enough to become a pop popular popular poplar ular u lar star Lina after outly one o ne season could speak well enough to t o take tak a part in an English hin U t n and make a lIt Mt Mlle Mile had more nore difficulty be because because cause ause c in her serious plays the public publics is i s much mu h more critical It will rIce he lien her hersome some ome s time to speak English with dent smoothness to have her accent forgiven Emma Eames and Lillian Nordica speak k French as fluently as English Italian is just as easy for or Mile MUe in n singing and In German she scarcely speaks at all and her singing of it is f labored labore Bessie Bessle Abott slugs sings French very well but not so 50 well as Suzanne Adams Both speak it with perfect fluency Olive Fremstad perfectly both French and German Gorman in addition to her native English and Louise Louls Homer act in French without offending even the sensitive ears of the Parisians She is also strong trong in German and arni Italian If women singers can thus acquire linguistic accomplishments there Is no reason why wh actresses should hould be unable to The advantage of the singers is of course that they go to Europe to o study and learn loarn the tongues there th re A foreign training will be necessary for actresses es when they become international international international It might be a very good thing for managers if the actresses of the con continental continental Un countries learned English Ad At things are now it is declared that only one woman in recent years has male made money mon 7 for anybody but herself lf by act acting acting actIng ing in a n foreign language This is Sa Salah Sarali iah rali Bernhardt With all the tho praise that Rejane hail had haden haren en cn her two visits here she never onro once drew for Abbey Grau the tre tee fee they paid her he and on her last visit she is said to have lost upward of for her managers although she made ty of money for herself If on the tho theother other hand rhe he had played in English and with an English company she would have made a n great deal of money So if the beauties of the Paris stage ge Bartet Brandes Brandos Hading Sorel Ger Gerard Geraid aid ard Webar Jane Tane Granier came over here and nd act acted acted acted ed in English there would be money in It for them and their managers There would be as much interest rest in lii inthe Inthe the German and Italian a actresses os al although although although though they are fewer in n number n and not so noted or attractive |