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Show "The feminine element is very important impor-tant on the modem stage, and genius and every quality applicable to dramatic dra-matic performance may find employment employ-ment there," write3 A. M. Palmer, the dramatic manager, in Tho Ladies' Home Journal. "Acting is certainly a distinct and honorable profession open to women, wom-en, but it lacks that uniformity of result re-sult that belongs to effort in other directions. di-rections. "The stage requires a peculiar aptitude. apti-tude. I would counsel no one to attempt at-tempt its chances without this aptitude and capacity to learn. Good looks are of no value whatever without special intelligence. Under my management, covering a long period, many young women have appeared. Some of them have become famous; many others have sustained themselves in the profession; a great many have failed. Positive qualities are required. Weakness of any kind in voice or physical attributes attrib-utes is a disqualification. "It is not always possible to tell if a young woman can act at all until she is seen on the stage, and this complicates the difficulties of advice as to a particular partic-ular line of acting." |