Show WANTS HAMS NOT ARTISTS music hall managers complaint of actors who are lre above their business I 1 1 Idon I dont twant want any mote more artists said eaid the music hall manager who gave the burlesque lur lesque the people I 1 want are hams and nothing taut hams whenever er I 1 get an application from who calls himself an artist im going to tear up tho the letter for fear I 1 might lose my presence of mind and engage him if tha plays a success theartist did it if i its ts a failure author sometimes I 1 wonder when I hear these artists artist ahat is the use of cf their ever having baying plays written for them at all independent of q the dramatists and I 1 should think they e y would just step on the stage and talk their plays but they dont do that thal they merely content themselves with refusing to speak this or that line because because its rotten substituting something of their own and then the fault of thel tha author that nobody langha at their stupid gags I 1 happened to have a bunch of em cm h here ere and tha aasted mer for the rest of my life hereafter ym im out of it what are artists basked the innocent the they I 1 Y re chiefly actors whore who 9 re condemned to aa imme acome and aci inthe in the music halls for f or three thaw times 3 much as they ever got in their lives before what they do is to call everything rotten decide that they know more about the play than the man who wrote it and walk around as though it were beneath them to do anything moro more like acting than that when it came to the question of acting in a music hall and hams what are they tho the sort of hams you meana mean chiefly variety actors accustomed to hard work rough maybe with a quality of get there that makes tho the audience interested come up and the artists think gone down the difference is between trying to do something wello well because its the best opportunity youve had bad and taki taking a g no interest at all in it because youve been in the habit of doing what you think is better I 1 but it better as sa sam in bernard says bays to be a has been than a never was it maybe it is but its rough on the manager who pays his money out for them I 1 had bad one of them here and he be was going to be so original that he would not use the lines the author wrote but promised to tickle the audience to death by some entirely original ar grinds ind s of his own when the test came he went on ae the stage and did the same things he be had bad done 11 years before ho he yas was never able to do anything else during tho the rest of the time I 1 had some others liko like hini him and that is why I 1 say mow BOW that I 1 only want vant hams not artists hams that work hard bard and know how to maker make an audience enjoy itself not artists too fine for anything new york sun |