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A FEW WORDS ABOXJT ACTRESSES, 391
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The Life Of An Actress Is To The World A...
government regulations . are The in requirements force which preserve of study to are the more place considered a system , and of
a due time allowed for it ; rehearsals are more numerous and efficient tive excellence , and as a consequence and leteness the pieces ; indeed are , produced both the very with best a compara acting - , comp
great and the provincial most discriminating townsThe audiences actress , are ' s work offcen becomes found at in once these of
. young ment more imp of ortance various in kinds every to way stimulate ; there are her competition efforts , something and encourage like a - to fear
standard of taste to which to appeal , and reliable judgments . she We is take in the this most period sympathetic to be about and the most attractive critical of part all conditions of her career of ,
her lifeand surrounded on all sides by the passions and affinities she may and , have boundless the power possibility to evoke : . no It limitations is a time hav of hope e been and as pro yet
discovered gress all is broad and . free ,- —a beautiful as well as dangerous , time How . by poetic instinct and aspiration , by imagination supplying others and
unsleep the to trace place ing , nor of endeavor experience perhaps , artistic artist , would by stud progress it mind y be , practice possible is made , silent observance to do , it and so is . not impercep The of for works us tible here of
as process art the grow innate of up assimilation in life the -princi , p like le 's of the these growth by determine and a of the colored their plant kind or tree his and . or form And her , artist ' s realizations are shaped by
copy so own alike an ing special yet from the individuality one mental common impression . Twenty model , g and women iven doing by may each things play will " very Juliet be totall much , " all y ,
thoug , h perhaps undefinably , different . theatrical Through term the for _" starring those " who system have , b achieved y which any as " peculiar stars "— dis the - actresses make short
tinction— the most celebrated actors and visits advantage to the of seeing different the country best manifestations theatres , the of young the art student extant , has and the of
being her own seen abilities in turn . The by those opportunit who y may is often both long appreciate waited and for assist , and at allbut believe
in these some to be instances the exceptions , perhaps , and , it never that talent comes usually , meets we with the chance at one time or other of being recognised at its full value .
come Chance to we us say in , the for the form laboriousl of chances y soug , yet ht are results not the of our less lives the surest often London has
Providences in this disguise . But even a success nothing strugg of acknowle le final cannot dged in b > ability it e ; laid with whiph down the , can for attainment secure it is not the of the place this mere that the possession has toil been and elements
of into gained the play p . rofession . In A London London aspires , a theatre * host and of eve is new ry the available goal and to conflicting which position all it the contains ambition come i _$
A Few Words Aboxjt Actresses, 391
A FEW WORDS ABOXJT ACTRESSES , 391
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/31/
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