Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — Hard on Young Actors. [ARTICLE]

Hard on Young Actors.

Now it takes almost a fortune to start a theater, as it takes almost a fortune to start a newspaper. Every great or little star has his planetary company, and frequently the repertoirejfor the entire year consists of but one play. By this means young actors have little opportunity to progress. Their time is occupied not with studying new parts, but with traveling from town to town, from hamlet to hamlet, until all the obscurest one-night places in the United States are exhausted. This process is continued from year to year, the actor averaging one part each twelvemonth. How paralyzed he becomes in that part I How demoralized his system become by the broken days and nights, the interrupted sleep, the alteration of climate, the varieties of bad fare, which incessant travel obliges him to endure. —New York Hour. In Mexico there are 100 Presbyterian congregations, ten native preachers, and two schools.