Show STAGE FRIGHT not the sleat of the audience bat sound alio cause of it an actor says lu fright au old acton said it is not the sight of the audience sc much as its sound that worries the beginner probably very few persons realize what noise an average audience makes it is not lond or definite but 0 steady suppressed ham like the whir of the broadway cable it is the combination of those little noises which are present in every large no matter how attentive and respectful one moves an arm another adjusts a skirt a third hustles a iamme a fourth coughs and so on it is the strangeness and of the conglomerate of these sounds that startles and upsets the beginner he cannot analyze them and they sound angry and threatening to him 1 I enow that I 1 did not get accustomed to the noise for some nights the first time I 1 went on the stage I 1 did not acco the audience andi ence at all for the footlights scorned so high and broad that they made a wall of beyond which I 1 could ei 0 nothing the of the audience on the other side cf that wall was awful I 1 quaked with the feeling of i a pursued by a mob and convinced that rheid is no escape it is popularly eliat only beginners suffer from etaco fright and that it eion e ion there aru successful actors and actresses who leavo nt tacks of the same sort every time they go on the stage and who will never get oscr them new york sun laell accommodated an irish actor well in the provinces aniced on one occasion at a oat of the way town the manager when ho reached the theater ap preached him with apparent anxiety and asked alie star how many supers he would for the play ho had brought Bc gorra responded he not many except in ono scene aue gaoat scene chero the is committed itt i tt oG yap dye ethcie I 1 wiant thelva supers to march across the ravine from right tin more to defile down the mountain path left dinty Fayn ians 0 o emerge as from ho ayap 01 alio bowls av the earth and siv anteen peasantry to dash on from the village stoy stop 1 exclaimed tho manager wo lite in this theater only thieo supers what cried the afar only three lye benyi all well thin never mind bare ill male do london tit bits A greater scheme WH mean to try a penny social at the charch nest time eaid mrs watts abid that asked mr watts ei cry woman gives a penny for every beir of her age better make it a penny for every year she is under 70 then the contributions will be long instead of schorr indianapolis journal be athi n ho naked for glicr hand eho replied no george my heart at your service but I 1 think I 1 had better keep apy hand myself it might bo useful to me in cabe yon support me yon know boston transcript russia has about female physicians |