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Show 1 h t Lure of the Fake Dramatic School t By Henrietta Crosman In "Hampton's Manazlnc." 11 d That, In tills country, thoro arc Innu-y Innu-y merablo fuko dramatic schoola which 11 batten upon ignorant nnd simple .stage struck youth, causing tho ruin of hun- dreds and driving many to suicide, la tho f revelation made by Miss .Henrietta Cros- man, the noted acirosK. In an article in r tho August number of . Hampton's Mag-y Mag-y azlnc. Miss Crosman. by tho way, was a member mem-ber of tho old stock company at the Grand theatre In Salt LaJco Cltv. She will open tho season of 1010-1911 at the Salt Lake theatre on Monday evening. September Sep-tember 5. IUIss Crosman, before exposing the methods of tlws pseudo and fake schools, snys: '1113311111011 as I myself began on the stage nnd not in a dramatic school. J admit 1 am prejudiced in favor of real stage work for a liuglnner. I beliovo in going up in balloons to learn ballooning, t may break your neck, but ihcn there s something actual, and decisive even. In a broken neck. With equal frankness, frank-ness, however. I will admit that some or the best stars on tho American stage today came out of the good dramatic schoola in New York, Chicago and Dos- 'on; nnd that, therefore, a good word muHt bo said for Home of theae schoola and their systems, "The troubln Is. moi;t candldatcn for Bt.-ige education aro beginners; nnd the inevitable and pathetic qualltv of a !-glnner !-glnner lu that he docon't know anything about the .subject threatened." instead of going on tho stage, thousands thou-sands of stage- struck youth aro lured to the schools of mado to order emotion and thus to shattcrod ambition. 1 Tr I : ' HENRIETTA CROSSMAN. "I have watched the operatlono of these stage sycophants for years," says Ilss Crosman. "and am firmly of tho opinion that tho great bulk of thorn always excepting tho worthy few aro undoubtedly pornicloua in tholr influence influ-ence and aro designed to tako monoy from the nllly and ambitious but impossible im-possible amateur. If tho dramatic schools encouraged only peoplo who had real talent, they would havo very few pupils; but I havo yet to hear of an applicant to a dramatic school being lerused on tho ground that ho or she had no natural gifts." Of tho many cases of defeat which Miss Crosman cites, one of the most pathetic i.1 llV ffollo'vlg- "Tako the case of Molly Daley and what I will call tho Horatio Ho-ratio Gull dramatic academy. This in- 1 i;1 stltutlon Ik a type of ninny others. Mr. -1 Horatio Gull wan a quack actor. Molly! Daley was ensv prey for Gull booauen iho 1 had talent, and hks 'training' consisted Irf. letting her do the work uho thought sho ; could do, whether or not alio waa suited, to It. , "Gull gave special performances by his pupils. Here would gather tho host 1 of admiring frlondc. relatives, proapcctlvo pupils and boosters. Thus he allowed. . that ho was actually turning out "nctorr, 1 and 'actruMses.' Tho sympathy of thef 7. andlencu was always with the performers, the plavn warn therefore succeaHful and 1 profitable to Mr. Horatio Gull's pockot. J "Molly Dalcv shone In these slmplo' pieces, Sho piayed Nora in "Tho Doll's House." Thin was her last and crowning 1 effort. She wont next to a big theatro ' In San Francisco with her litlJo diploma : and tho conviction that sho was goln7 to -i bo a great success. For several months I sho stayed around tho theatro, doing ex- A tra work when sho could get it (wlilc'if was ncldom), always encouraged ana ' carried along by tho flattery of tho managers. man-agers. "Finally sho caw 3he was being fooled and camo to N'ew York; hero sho went 1 around to all tho agents and managers, telling them sho had graduated from the Gull school. After sho had boon for a ' year ropeatcdly turned down, a kind hearted agent told her that if 8ho wanted ! to get an engagement it would be wiso' i to suppreon the fact that alio liad over! been to a dramatio Hchool, particularly this one, Tho rest of her history is tho) ; usual tenderloin story, taking any work ' sho could get becauso sho wu3 desperate, and letting influential men do aa they 1 liked with her." Miss Crosmon's words have iho weight of long experience and wisdom. Sho 'f concludes her article In Hampton's with ' $-9i an appeal overy parent and .stags ambl- -ilril tlous young pornon should read. .JQ "Girls." she says, "do you feol that yon mM must go on the stage? Aro you suro that I ycara from now you will not bo a total, falluro sis an actress and as a woman'1 i J" or tho odds aro great that M vou aro. not successful on the stagw 3'ou yourself! ' will follow tho path that so many others i . havo trod. Necessity is a difficult thing to faco, and uecosslty makes many n, i woman do a lot of things sho would not j uiink of doing If thore wero any other way to face the condition that confronts her after failure. I could tell you easa ' ot girls by tho score, girls I myself havo ; seen gradually chango from their simple country ways to an acceptanco of tho ' mem licentiousness of the big cltie3 aft-i j ter reaping the Inevitable fruit of orlcP- nal competence. The pity of it ia that i ail this annual contribution of bright nyed and ambitious young womanhood to failure fail-ure has not advanced the stage ono hit has not added ono per cent of worthy acting to tho annals of tho stago wnnt J'0" to understand that to ono- ? with genuine talent and they are com- 4 paratlvoly few-tho stage Is just ns lafo ' as a business office. But tile stago attracts at-tracts more young women, without an lota of talent, than tho business offlcV? It is terrifying to consider tho lo-Ion 2r0Ul,? 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