Identifier: theatricalcircus00je (find matches)
Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s much mistaken as was the Caho-kian, and sometimes, after they have gone into trainingfor the profession, they tire of the hard work as readilyalmost as the stage-struck young farmer tired of car-rying the box of «;:i£rs. There is a general wilddesire among the young people of this country tomake players of themselves. They dream that thesta^e is something like a seventh heaven where there isnothing but music and singing and golden glory for-ever— admirers, wealth, and an uninterrupted goodtime generally. They do not know anything aboutthe long and toilsome hours of work and the compar-atively poor pay that form the portion of all who arenot at the top of the dramatic ladder. They never STAGE-STRUCK. 209 pause to think if they are girls of the temptations intowhich they will be thrown, and of the slanders that willbe uttered against their fair names upon the slightestprovocation. All they see or know of theatrical life isits bright gilded side, the tinsel that looks valuable, the
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KITTY BLANCHARD. jewels that are paste, the silks and satins that are notwhat they seem, and the beautiful faces and bright smilesbeneath which are wrinkles and toil-laden looks, whenthe actress is in her home plying her needle or studying 210 kGE-81 1:1 I k. the long lengths thai belong to her part. It is because people are so ignorant of the realities of dramatic lifethat so many become stage-struck and go around strik-ing tragic attitudes and rating imaginary scenery in a rabid rant through Othellos address to the Sen-ate, or Hamlets scene with his mother in the hit-ters chamber. There are forty thousand young ladiesin this land who want to be Mary Andersons, and asmany more who think they can kick as cutely asLotta,while one hundred thousand semi-bald young men im-agine they could out-IIainlet Booth it they had achance, or lift the mantle of Forrest from John Mo-Cullough it the latter dared enter the ring with them. © © A Louisville newspaper reporter gave a very humor-ous descr

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