Show THEY Y ARE nB ni NOT ACTRESSES A good woman who earns her living JIving b by presenting on the stage excellent counterfeits of or life In Its Us various phases makes complaint that the term tern actress s Is much abused And she Is right If Jf there Is anything sensational In tho the conduct of a woman the dispensers of news seem to get a delectable quality from it by speaking of her as an actress If there Is a compromised man spending mone money beyond his means and fronting the doors of tho the penitentiary he lie Is excused because he lie committed crime for love lo of an actress If It there be a shooting In somo some ones one's business otTice and nd the he flaunt of feathers and swish of oC crinoline ma may bo lIo added to the accessories of the tho stor story we wo arc are promptly told that an nn actress from the chorus of ot So- So So and-So was one of or the impelling causes of the tho disaster Now chorus girls arc are not actresses any actresses any more than thana a motorman is an ah nh electrician nn any more than a n. process server er Is a lawyer Show girls are aro not actresses In every picture presented b by liv the sa sagacious stace stase man man- n age ager el there are women who arc are no more entitled to the distinction of ot being called actresses than the usher ushel- Is entitled to bo be rated a theatrical man The true actress protests with reason In all the questionable prominence given to women In sensational cases there Is mighty small reason for tor accrediting them with the title of ot actress Nan Patterson was not an actress She was a beautiful woman who could pose on tho the stage or on n the to top of oC a n. flat board lIoard fence or In the middle of or the roa road But she couldn't act Evelyn Nesbit Nes- Nes cs- cs lilt bit is not an actress and never has been She was one of or a Florodora sextet but she couldn't have sustained a apart apart apart part In a n play no matter how trivial Mabelle 1 Gillman Is not an actress and the honors of ot the profession are impossible to her Real Rea actresses like 0 real women in any other earnest line of human endeavor behave themselves They have judgment as well as ns talent And they do not dis disgrace I either their sex or their profession b by getting into compromising compromising com corn promising situations They are arc not what De Do Wolf Hopper Hopper Hopper Hop Hop- per once called The They have ha homes and r re respect respect re- re them The They have sense and are arc guided by it Tho They Thoy are arc OO C-OO good honest women earning money on the stage because the good Lord has given gl them the faculty to Interest and amuse the public through that medium and they are as creditable of at life liCe and as lofty of thought ag ns any women an anywhere where There is a tt sentiment to the effect that an actress is isa isa isa a woman of ot easy virtue that because she depicts passion passion pas pas- sion slon on the stage she may be addressed by any man that because she illustrates In fn her acting tho the mental and arid emo ein emotional processes of or a depraved creature she Is depraved d and may bo be made mado the play plaything thins of ot any man with the price of a a. wine wino supper It is unfair to the womanhood which has graciously c consented to give ghe their thell talents to tho the entertainment of the public And the women who earn carn the title of actress are to be defended by every everyone one who appreciates the ex excellence excellence ox- ox of or their artistic work work and who respects and honors earnest lives wherever these ma may be found |