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Show Tho Lifo of an Actor. Considering the restless life that nine-1 nine-1 tenths of tho actors lead, the wonder is that they are not more at the mercy of theatrical speculators than is the case. Ono of them said to me last winter: "The working actor has no business to marry, for he can uever have a home. People talk of stock companies, and my friends outside of the profession toll me that I ought to join a stock company, so as to be able to live in New York ail winter and havo a borne of my own. Do you know bow many applications Daniel Frohman had last summer sum-mer from people who wanted to be engaged in the Lyceum company, one of half a dozen stock companies left in this country? Just and there are places for twenty-six. I suppose that Waliack, Palmer and Daly would giva about the same figures. Scarcely a mall comes into theso theatres that does not bring an application. ap-plication. I know actors who have played leading ports in small towns, and have received re-ceived as high as $(J0 a week, who would jump at the chance of playing footman at Wallack's or tho Lyceum, and would do it year after year for $25 a week. The life of an actor today is the life of a dog; It is scarcely worth qualifying such a statement, because the exceptions are so few as compared com-pared to tho rule. I would sooner see my son a contented hod carrier than an actor; ho would have more chances of domestic happiness happi-ness and a prosperous old ago. " This gentleman, whose name I do not feel at liberty to give, Is one of the veterans of the American stage, whom most actors look up to as having succeeded. New York Graphic |