Show NOT NOP ALL ALIA PLAY Clara Morris Word of Warning fo to Actresses A Word of Warning to Young Actresses Act Actresses is uttered in the May Century by Clara Morris one of the most suc successful c actresses Amends has produced and author of Little Jim Crow The Silent Singer etc I known she says onys of but three pow powers ers ens that can open the tite stage door to a a girl who comes straight fro private life a fortune great influence or superlative beauty With a large amount of money a girl can unquestionably tempt a manager whose busi business ness nasa is not too good to give her an engagement If influence te i used it must Indeed be of a high social order to be strong enough to affect favorably the box office receipts antI and thus win winan winan an opening for the young debutante As for beauty it must be something very very remarkable that will on oi Its ita strength alone secure a girl an engage engagement meat ment Mere prettiness will not do nearly all American girls are pretty It must be a radiant diant and beauty and every one that there are not many such etch beauties stage struck or otherwise You will say good by to mothers pet petting petting ting you will live in your trunk The time will ill come when that poor hotel trunk HO so called to it from the he trunk that goes to the theatre when you are traveling or en route with its dents and sears will be the only friendly object to greet you in your desolate boarding house with its one wizened unwilling and its outlook upon back yards end and cats or roofs and sparrows its sullen bed its despairing car carpet carpet pet for you see you will not have the money that might take up to the front of the house and four burners Rain Rainor or shine you will have to make your lonely often frightened way to and from the theatre At rehearsals you will have to stand about wearily watt wait lag ing hours while others rehearse over and over again their more important 1 I scenes yet you may sot not leave for a walk or a chat for you do not at what moment your scene seene may be I called You win will not net be made much of You will receive a Good morning or Good evening from the company probably nothing more moie If you are traveling you will literally live in your hat and cloak You will wUl breakfast in them and many nany a time you will willdine willdine dine in them regularly that you may rise at once and go to the theatre or orcar orcar car You will see no one go nowhere I If you are in earnest you am ply endure the first year endure and study and all for what That after the corner farthest from the lookingglass in a dismal room you would scarcely use tzee for your house housemaids housemaids maids brooms and dusters at home you may stand for a few moments in inthe Inthe the background of some scene and watch the leading lady making the hit bit bitin in the foreground Will these few well dressed well lighted music thrilled moments repay von vou for the loss Ices of home love comfort bout We are not the radiant winged crea creatures I tures we actors that so many flighty young stage struck girls think we are Our wings triage only unfold in the calcium light In the daytime we are merely merey hard working every day mien men and women with here and there one who carries the magic wand of f imagination at waving all sordidness disappears dine p pears and who bears the trials and tribulations of this truly hard life But little stage struck girl you who think to frisk gaily up cp to the head of the profession pause before you ou try t to force you way into the theatre wn fe ce acting Is either a veritable high art w or wa ora a drudgery There is no middle cc eurse arse between these extremes Better then to be patient at home Find occupation occupation tion there if it is nothing more than the weekly putting in order of bureau drawers for far some unusually member of the family But having e good home thank God and your par eats for it and stay in it |