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Show ART IS PERPETUATED .fiiil BY SLAVES liiiil In tho October American Mngazlno It H Walter Prlcbard Eaton, dramatic cri- ''laiiH tic for that publication, writes an i j!aiil nrtlclo entitled "Carrying on tho Itl'iiH Torch," In which ho reports tbo de- 'lliiiil volopmcnt and activities of somo of J' 1 tho most wonderful young actors and liiiiiil actresses now coming to tho front in 'iiliail tho United States. Tho following Is ttlaBil an oxtract from his nrtlclo telling 'ksiBiH how tho really great actor Is pro- Lsail "Any part which Is worth practlc- M Ing refuses to bo tho tool cither of ) M ijrtlsts or amateurs, and still less of ;! iiiH managers. It insists upon boing tho ' jl master. That Is why you may creato ; tlH over so many 111 equipped llttlo stars iliifl nnd blazon tholr names oir tno bill 'tifLH bonrdB in nmtablo little plays, hut IfiiiH wh U you aro doing it somo man or liiiifl woman will bo totting wcok in and tfiliiifl wock out in uq stock company to learn tVlsiBifl to act, driven on by that lmpulso to FfiLiH do tho thing right, which is what P H makes renl artists; and ho or sho )-.' IH will suddonly como forth In an am- , ' H plo part, ripely played, and put all ; H your manager mado stars to shame. (M H Evory art Is perpetunjted, not by Its Vi iiH bus ncsa managers, not by Its ama- jj ;H tcurs or dilettantes, not by tho pub- 'i ,H He, but by tho dovotlon of tho artists jl who nro born to tho purple, which H paradoxically means who aro born H |