Show i T The Main Street Girl Comes to Broa Broadway l CopyrIght right 1923 New Vew York E World Publishing Co Uy By E LOGU LOEU LOEl A father came to me the other day daj pleading pleading- that I I Isee Ieee see his daughter daugh daugh- ter his only child rind mind nd try to urge h her r to come back home to o the small smalltown smal town She came to New York he said laid sid about two years ago thinking she was going to capture Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way way Well Vei seemingly Broadway got her Instead She had theatrical ambitions and andas andas andas as the father put It I she was tas spoiled in her own home town Her friends frends told her what a a own wonderful won won- actress atress she she would become and how she would storm the me me- She was a good dancer end and nd they felt sure she could get into tho the Metropolitan ballet balet before the year was over She had always alwa's I played the leading heading P parts In the tho home talent productions and was altogether altogether aloI alto alto- alo- alo g gether ther the belle bele I After she came cam h here re she hE learned that th the flattery lattery of friends Is far different from the critical demands demand of managers The best she got was some kind of ot an act in vaudeville on a circuit for small smal towns She he married her dancing partner and Is already seeking a divorce and Inthe in inthe inthe the meantime working as a cloak mod model model el When hen I think bt o the splendid fa father ta- ta th then ther r and mother of or this girl whom I have known for years and the fine tine position this girl had at home to say nothing of the opportunities she he left lef to do similar work here my heart heart goes out to them It I was not a as if Ie this thi girl had to todo todo todo do this sort of ot thing because her people were vere able to take care of ot her amp amply and and let her hen develop all al her talents But Rut no youth would spread d It Us its I win wine s 8 which In this caSeI case w wre vere r very ery bad badly singed Indeed I She is 19 to today much wl wiser WIler er and less lees lUl enthusiastic Sh ha has learned he hen l leeson eson on and I believe beleve has realized hel that It Is much better r to be a large lage fish In a a. small Imal pond tha tha a to try to blaze a a way on Broadway roadway with wih nothing behind you but the kind words of good friends Of course this thi does doea not mean that genius en Ius will wi not find Its Is way and get gat to the top but the Important thing it Is hI to learn if i there is 1 marked ability abil abil- abi- abi ity iy I and be b. sensible enough to rc rec rec- the truth If I there Is I nOti then go go back to do what what you ou cando can cando do well f How hot wel many hundreds of girls hiI Ul this como come to New York Yort and ar ai ara lost in t the e maelstrom maelstrom of or mad clim cling ing for a career Ibis How man many Q Ing them are heartbroken and disgust because they find that M Main r ed b ause street with all al its trials Is nd v lo lo loas as compared to all al the ha harP haE roads that must be traveled lra on Broadway on II p The competition is very verv keen and ana the sensible young wom woman oman n will wi s st sU sUto 2 to it l that sho she is I. I Inde Indeed d above abo ti the average before she ahe gives up a a SU sure suU Jl thing for an nn uncertainty In other words from Main Iain str street et etto to Broadway Is not far but to trav travel gravel l there on one must must be equipped I real rel talent and not merely merel the Imag- Imag Inary Variety briety |