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397 A FEW WORDS ABOUT ACTRESSES.
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The Life Of An Actress Is To The World A...
think order and and purity work and and depend the constant upon themselve use of s the , their higher quiet faculties battles for of
absorbed taste and b imag y the ination , petty , vanities raise them and far trifles above and those anxieties women of a woman who are ' s
ordinary The great life . drawback to the dramatic profession few as the theatres means which of a livelihoodis its precariousnessThere are
, . very can provincial maintain towns performances the theatres season onl throug y extend hout at s the over entire a few laces year months . during In during many the
Owing summer the winter to are this , actress and not and the usuall other vocation y causes very is opened , large the caprice of or change watering prosperous of public and -p uncertainty establishments favor , etc ., and the .
actor and ' s one , for some and those forethoug strange who p ht have lace cannot , and to depend unable always solel perhaps eva y upon de for necessities difficulties it many , the greatest weeks . Strande to prudenc them procure d in to e
an what engagement seems dishonest of any and kind town unprinci , their at pled dire considerable . Or , if even distance compel an engagement the
travelling is found , expenses it may be to in which a they have a not the money to , defray . Until within the last few years , there has existed no kind of
provision any fund for from help in which . these aid frequent could emergencie be obtained s of in the sickness profession , the exertions great , nor
theatrical of Mr . J . funds W . Anson only giving for many annuities years to old connected age . To with the Astley ' s
Amp and hitheatre valuable , institution the profession , . Three is at last years indebted ago for he a succeeded most useful in Dramatic questrian
establishing a society called " The General E and Musical of the most Agency urgent and wants Sick of Fund the case Association and is accessible , " which to meets the
some poorest sickincapacitated actor . Its object by age is " or to innrmity afford relief , or , to suffering the members from when
misness fortune , to . receive " A subscriber ten shillings of three for the -pence first per twelve week weeks is entitled , and half in sick that
shillings sum for , as and long one a of period nine-pence again , ; twenty a subscriber shillings of ; six and to - be pence the addition , fifteen
in of the an extr event a penny of the per subscriber week insures ' s death . a . certain But perhaps sum a greater paid boon over
than relief this in is the of privilege temporary which distress each . member In the has last of report applying of the for
Association cases it is stated that within two years £ 304 have been advancedwithout interestto enable members to go _joiirnies , and
the names , of those who receive , these loans are known only to the peop Association le officiall transacts y concerned all kinds in the matter of business . The agency connected branch with of the the
half making -a-crown of engagements a member ' s . name Upon and the address payment , with of a a specification yearly fee of of
the particular , line of characters played by him or her , is entered
397 A Few Words About Actresses.
397 A FEW WORDS ABOUT ACTRESSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/37/
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