Show A IS N NO liAR TO STA SUCCESS Famous Actresses Today W Would QuId Be Sitting in the Chimney Corner If They Followed Ordin Ordinary ry Life Sarah Bernhardt the most widely k known own actress In the world and by l long ng odds the greatest actress of the romantic school Is 61 years old Eleanore Duse the greatest actress In the realistic school is an old woman Ellen Terr Terry the best known English actress and for long years the artistic associate of ot Henry Irving who dominated the English stage has been on the stage for more than forty years Mrs Gilbert after a professional career Career career ca ca- reer extending over many years went starring when she was at an age ago at which all ll but a few women have retired to the chimney corner and inglenooks of life There are upon the stage In this country country country coun coun- try today dozens of women who were they engaged in other pursuits would long ago have decided that they were old enough to retire The stage then Is by far the best oc occupation occupation occupation oc- oc in the world for old women It Is also fine field for tor old men Indeed in these stirring days In which there is talk of chloroform to be used at a certain age and when men find that they cannot get positions In some Bome lines after they are forty years old the stage is about the only field of human endeavor that ex extends extends ex- ex tends Its arms wide to the middle-aged middle and the old Frank C. C Bangs who retired from the stage not long ago after he had been given a fine benefit performance is S an anold anold old man a He u used to s star with Booth t ta a and Barrett The graDt athers of today re remember remember remember re- re member him as Marc Antony and Romeo The fathers saw him as The theater-goers theater of today have seen him in inmany inmany inmany many roles of middle age and old age Yet Bangs had no thought of retiring from the stage until he met with an acci acci- dent When he was struck by a horse inthe ithe in i inthe the street and sustained injuries from which complete recovery never would be possible he be gave up the stage But just u It how V earnestly the desire for the stage stag lingers on he gave at his last laRt per- per the oration which as RS An Antony ony he had made over the corpse of ot Caesar at the of the tragedy many years before William Dean Howells was 70 years old not long ago His birthday merited and attracted a a. great deal of ot attention Still on the stage active players who are 70 are not uncommon There was HenryClay Henry HenryClay HenryClay Clay Barnabee who persisted in singIng singing singing sing sing- ing the part of the Sheriff of Nottingham In Robin Hood until he too met with a physical accident and was compelled to retire The Bostonians that fine company company company com com- pany of singers of lighter opera had fallen upon evil days by the time that Barnabee's hard luck caught up with him but the old man was bravely going forth into vaudeville there to repair his fortunes Then he was hurt was compelled compelled com corn to retire and was given a benefit which rendered unnecessary any further solicitude for tor the future on his part Joseph Jefferson lived and acted till a agreen agreen agreen green old age During his later years as during the later years of Edwin Booth he restricted the length of his season Booth admitted that he di did this because he feared to become a trite and stale at at- at traction His His' star was going down anyway anyway anyway any any- way when h he died Jeffersons Jefferson's was shining shining shining shin shin- ing at the place where It had been for years Jefferson at the approach of ot old age shortened his seasons that he ha might have more time to play In to camp In his Louisiana bungalow to fish with former President Cleveland and to paint pictures for his friends Although most of the actors have gone on the stage young David Garrick who certainly was one of the most distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- who ever appeared upon any any his stage i gp appearance was along lg gJ He In h years had embarked before ie he ei in made the g business of selling liquor before he went Into that of playing parts |