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Show From Acting- to Ploughing-. Few know when they are well off. To the average man In another business or profession tho work of the actor seems easy, attractive and profitable. All he apparently has to do is to pose, grimace and spout a few hourh a day, and he does not have to pose, grimace and spout continually during those few hours. He can retire frequently into the wings and rest. And besides hla salary, which In the popular Imagination Imagina-tion Is always large, he Is rewarded with the applause of more or less delighted de-lighted audiences and with the smiles and worship of thousands of matinee girls. What fanner boy. working and sweating, from sunrise to sunset, would not on these condition an actor be? Yet here is Mr. Clay Clement, a thes-pian thes-pian of note, who has tasted the sweets of histrionic success, a star who. as he himself says, has p'layed "everything from 'Hamlet' up and down." longing for a bucolic life and preparing to adopt it. His sock and buskin he says will give place to plough-shoes and overalls He will quit the footlights for God's pure sunlight, and the voice which no now successfully employs In moving theatrical managers ungrateful and wholly given over to commercialism, he will hereafter give his time and talents to the kino, who will at least low -or bellow their appreciation when fed, and who if they greedily cat all that Is placed before them, will at least not pretend that they do so In the cause of art. As Is true In every Instance, In-stance, there are two sides to this question. ques-tion. It may be doubted If the aerage agriculturist-would play vHamlel" particularly par-ticularly well, and It seemd equally doubtful if the average actor would make a very good farmer. There are thorns and brambles along the paths of all businesses and professions, and a man Is least likely to get his hands scratched or his' pantaloons lorn when on a way with which he Is familiar. Kansas City Journal. |