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Show TUE JUI ERICA N STAOE. ACTOR CI1AKI.E3 VALCOT MAKES GLOOMY PROPHECIES FOB ITS iimniE. Charles Walcot, the leading man of Uib Lyceum theatre, aud one of the Lest known acton la this country, coun-try, tales a rather gloomy Uv, of the future of the American stage. SpeaLIng upou this ;ulject yesterday yester-day he said. '-We haveuodriiiiaUc school in thla country at the present time. True, vre have what is railed thoLyceum School of the Dramatic Alt, In nhlch 1 have twen instructor, instruc-tor, aud Dion Bouclcault, at the Jtfadbon Siuare theatre, has a lot of high charged jjujiLs under him, one of hum, a number of the au dirhilt family, I hear la to make a public appearance, but the only dramatic dra-matic collegeU before the footllhb?, and under our present methods and conditions even the stage today does not furulfh education to the votaries of Theepis. Men or women who play but one part uigbt after night cannot can-not Iearu etu the rudimints of dramatic aiL "When ftbook and I'almer and Collier hnd the Union hxjtiare Theatre The-atre I played undir their management manage-ment ill e York and on the ruad, theleadlng art in Urouon Howard How-ard 'scorned, "The Banker's Daughter," Daugh-ter," for three yeans npjiriug; In it !03 times. It was whit Is known in technical slang as a "fit" jart, and I liked it ucetedlugly . At the con-cluUon con-cluUon of the loom performance I begau to lH.llee that the art was bail; when I readied the Sooth presentation pres-entation I imagined that a continuance continu-ance of the ordeal would drive me crazj , and u hen S00 w as the figure uon the programme l u as entirely inditTcniit as to whither I litul or died. It is a rernarkablu fait that eLii afterl hadplaeii thejurt for oer twoyeary, if any one in the course of a day asked me to njt'at certain Hues which I ikllvtritl in the comedy, liidicatiug wlut the n ere, I was unable to do so. I could not lecall a line. Vtt at night 1 could go on the stage and m.cr mis, a word. Why? I had become s niply a machine, au automaton. I was apiareutly wound up oueu a day, aud the -ptiug whKh started my moLii.euts wasnot pressed uu til the curtain row. At the present lime I hie a similar exierleuce in the play of" Hie Charity lktll " I have only ten lines tu dellvir, and yet If I were asked now what tl ey are I could nit rq eat one of thiiu. Hut I will go on the ttaje tonight, get toy cue,audthelalkiugmacliliii which I have become w ill do it) work. ' How dilleront it all was years ago. i was Icadrrg man at the Walnut fetrcet theatre. In I'hlladei. ptila, from 1SS3 to 1ST1I, and upon that stae w e had u hat w as really a school of acting We thought nolh Ing of producing a diirenntghak-j)earlau diirenntghak-j)earlau I lay every nilit of the week and following it with a farce or comedy. I remeuiLer ujion the occasion of a beneht given my wife, wu prodticeii ill one oNelilug the 'Heir at l,aw," the 'Octoroon," aud"l)amou aud I'ythla5,"any cue of which now couttilules a full e.enln's pcnormauci. We lifted the curtain at 7 o'clock and It dra-exuded dra-exuded at midnight, for had we been one minute Liter wo would have been fined $"( I If a notice was placarded tonight in the etago entrance, of the Lyceum theatruc.lv-ini theatruc.lv-ini the cast for cjch cfsix pL-na of Shaksnearc, all of them to benro- duceclmxt week, cury mcinberef tlio company excel tlug j robatly William l.cMoy ntaud my-elf would le-ive the thtatre aud never return. re-turn. In the da s of the old stock cum-pan'cs cum-pan'cs it was cousldcred a ry orJI-uary orJI-uary and natural thing for au actor and actress to be thoroughly convcr-aut convcr-aut with all the standard icirt. If ayouugiuAii had an ambition to become an actor he w t nt Intnustcck company aud began with a two Iill partauU gradually wirketl his way till. Ill that way 1 educated Ulls hiluiier, now l.cluiu Itooths lead irgnian, undone of the best actors that wehavt, and also John Mason, leading man of the Boston Museum. Nowadays, ho never, when a man has been proper) coached fur one part only heappearo upon the stage, acquits liini'-c-lt creditutil , and is t once paraded before theworld as "an at tor," aud yet he hat not learned the primer of his profession. What w III be the e en'ual outcome of the present syttcm? I don't know. A -ucceedlug generation will liio to Nilve that I robleiu " 7VpcJta(vun atVif) C'ajAlaL |