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A FEW WOKDS ABOUT ACTRESSES. 389
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The Life Of An Actress Is To The World A...
condition containing a curiousl ; y a in mixe society it d many society made varieties up , too of , strange to and associate eccentricities elements witli both of day character of affcer good day and and ,
evi But l . a actressabsorbed bher work and carried forward y
by ing round clear of ings these purpose young . We earl , remember will days be , to very us one little , wh " I disturbed have had toi been led or up and affected stud succeeded ying by until her , speak four sur - -
ot do again , five so betwe long in the as en morning I nine y did and not , " ten she become ; . said but , ill I " , never and and on cared it was my how way just much possible to the I theatre had to be to
done . And what looks so impossible now , was quite possible then ! The first time I acted , I felt as of any one may confinement be supposed to had do been who
h so long escape cooped d after and stifled long term in that solitary good home of mine , . with I nothing to dono aim in life , crying out in my heart one weary day affcer
hard another , labor for indeed action , that for emp would loyment have , been it would too much have been for me desperate when I
back first got and the see blessed I knew chance nothing to of work what . was It was about a curious me ; I time only , I knew look
my It requirem be inferred ents an from d asp _^ what irations has . " been already related , that
laid whatever may talent it forbid may exist chance in these of country its being comp prop anies erl , y the manifested conditions . any
The upon critic in the front of the theatre exclaims : — " This is not art ; how or t feeling slovenl ? meanwhile , y even . There the is full is language no of characterization c is atulation imperfect s , th no . " at intensity The the work poor of has thoug actor been ht or
there got acress through at all h ; , that of the althoug sense ongr h to the words on were the scene not quite —for correct so are ,
was enoug carry , situation dramawhich and yesterday salary saved afternoon ! A very perhaps different only thing two or is three that out same of
the act dozen and , to peop the le audienc employed e who in it sit knew in a jud sy gment llable about thereon , to . those To who the the latter
formerit is a miraculous achievement ; to , a disgusting better stupidity than , . Yet those , perhaps whom he , no condemns critic amongst what it that ought audience to have knows been ;
but how could it be thisunless it , had a mushroom principle of growth , and sprang up perfect , in a sing to le blame night if ? it refuses The poor to waste actor
its is fault not money . to And blame over who , neither such or what unsatisfactory is the is public responsible exhibitions for such ; the a system system ? is in It to and this
would The dep carry lorable us into fact , too as it many meets considerations those who suffer these try most inferior from answer theatres it , the .
the inferior actors most and not unfortunate actresses in any outwar themselves theatres d or , vi are is sible thi fine s : manner In buildings perhaps , situated , for some too in of - such
towns containing a large population , and why they are .
A Few Wokds About Actresses. 389
A FEW WOKDS ABOUT ACTRESSES . 389
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/29/
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