Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — Instruction of Stage Children. [ARTICLE]

Instruction of Stage Children.

"How many people who go to tbo music hall for an hour’s entertainment ever think of the clown as a father or the dancer as a mother? I wondered.” writes a correspondent from London to a French paper, "until I went to the school which is conducted in connection with one of the music halls in this city. I saw a class of 16 little ones, including the 'fat boy’ from one of the shows, receiving instruction from a teacher who is employed for that purpose by the musio hall managers. It would be well for the children if other places had similar institutions, because they receive the benefit only four weeks—that ie the lonogest term for which a performer can secure an engagement in * London variety house." 'ft