Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1922 — Page 5

JUNE 15, 1922.

Spring Had the Theatrical *ltch * When She Was in the High School

BY SPRING BYINGTON. Os The Stuart Walker Company. Like many other actresses in repertory, I hare received scores of letters from young girls who desire to make the stage their career. When the time permits I try to answer all of these, and occasionally, 1 haTe the youthful yearners’ parents come to the theater for an Interview. advice, elcept in the rare Instances where extraordinary ability Is apparent, is the same. “Are you willing to work fourteen hours a day, seven days a \ week, from September until June?” “Are you ready to withstand long hours of loneliness, cut off from family and friends, living often in strange hotels, to give up every vestige of the home environment?” “Have you the qualities of personality, voice, imagination and fancy and, above all, perseverance ?” If you have all these qualities and still feel the urge to aspire to a career on the stage, and if in addition you have the visular appeal, the vocal equipment and the health, the stage offers some glowing rewards. Most of these young aspirants haven’t any honest desire to be an actress; their fancy is intrigued by the glamor and lights of the stage, as they see it from tteir comfortable seats out front. Iu their imagination the theater offers a striking contrast of ease, fine clothes and romance, when compared with the daily round of the classroom, shop or office. It is true most girls would rather be a Juliet than a Cinderella before the prince came. Besides, the stage simply carries on the fascinating game of “make believe,” in which most young girls live in their day-dreams. My own life, while not entirely typical of a career in the theater, offers many cases in point. I made my first public appearance when 17. The itch to be an actress had been growing through my high school years. It was the cr.vstaiijruion of long, lonely hours passed with romances. Scott was my favorite. T longed nightly to be a figure in a story such ag he told, and frankly 1 yearned also to be a picturesque personality. I wanted to stand out above the other girls I knew; to be in the public eye in some compelling, romantic, lovely way. I also knew, as one does know these things in her innermost heart, that I had a talent for Interpretation. We moved to Denver, father and mother and my younger sister and myself when I was a very little girl. Father bad a professorship in English in the T'niversity of Colorado. My mother was a doctor of medicine in general practice. Both were exceedingly busy people, but in a home such as ours there was, oi necessity, a great many books. I browsed through these literary pastures without restriction. SHE WAS .TEST LIKE OTHER GIRLS. As I look back upon my early girlhood the picture that most frequently comes to mind is of myself, a spindly-legged, frightened little kid with a mop of tow colored hair and big blue eyes, curled in my dad’s leather chair, a book in my lap, or lying flat on the floor, my chin in my two hands, devouring the story in front of me, Scott was first, and then came Stevenson and Dickens, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli—no one ever said my taste wasn't catholic—the Duchess, Dumas, Macauley's historical and literary essays. And to this day I love and can sometimes weep oVor Ouida. There was a time when I thought that “Under Two Flags" was the most poignant romance ever written. And then during these early days, faler suddenly died. The burden of the family was thrown upon mother's shoulders. She had a splendid practice and specialized somewhat In the diseases of the nervous system and mind. I absorbed in these younger jears much of the knowledge of applied psychology which I turned to good account in my life in the theater. Father s death and mother's devotion to her profession brought responsibility to my sister and myself at ages when most girls are content to be simply family fractions. We ordered the affair* of the household, and I can recall more than one hasty trip in the night carrying my mother's instruments to the bedside of a patient on an emergency summons. In this regime the timidity of the pre-adolescent years left

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SHE DIDN’T BUY IT IN JAPAN

o, Miss Byington didn't bny her “for- l c i looking” umbrella In Japan. She / ps in Indianapolis nowadays and she /' ght the sunpiece In the “No Mean { . V Miss Byington, who is the new s : : ling woman for Stuart Wafker. made ■: , % fjliCSlijlP ome run to tie hearts of Indianapolis fe-eagf itergoers the first time she walked • The ambition to be an actress RS THER AND DAUGHTER ’ B 2 ‘ $ iually, a few days before my gradual from high school, 1 broached the HH ter to _my mother.* Always we had *, ;ed things over fraokly and In a gfljß tative propensities escaped her care- i eye. She had seen me register hope whole metamorphosis of passion and pp?f wTVljror'n iff* •eptibility before my mirror. She had P*|fflWr i s.i'ii rue do weird things iu the jjpgflP*" '■ ’ of coifferes. drape myself fanically in stray garments and such jßy rakgSgEfcaaffiaffPfkaftyJ es of textiles as came to my bauds. Sg: *n alone, I declaimed long passages vV of Shakespeare, fn which I was both > t * * della and Lear. Katherine and Pe- * do, Juliet. Capulct and the eldest sr of the Montagus, little Eva and

No, Miss Byington didn't bny her “foreign looking” umbrella In Japan. She shops in Indianapolis nowadays and she bought the sunpiece in the “No Mean City.” Miss Byington, who Is the new leading woman for Stuart Wafker. made a home run to the hearts of Indianapolis theatergoers the first time she walked on the Murat stage.—W. D. H.

me. The ambition to be an actress grew. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WERE ALWAYS PALS. Finally, a few days before my graduation from high school, I broached .the matter to ,my mother.* Always we had talked things over frankly and in a spirit of palship. Nor had my little imitative propensities escaped her care- i ful eye. She had seen me register hope and hate and unrequited love, in fact, the whole metamorphosis of passion and susceptibility before my mirror. She had also seen me do weird things in the way of coiffures, drape myself fantastically in stray garments and such pieces of textiles as came to my hands. When alone, I declaimed long passages out of Shakespeare, fn which I was both Cordelia and Lear, Katherine and Petrucio, Juliet. Capulct and the eldest son of the Montagus, little Eva and Uncle Tom. And. so mother wasn’t surprised. “You know, 'daughter, that the life will be a hard one, and we have no influence to help you on the stage. But if that is j your real, earnest, honest ambition, then j I shall help you so far as I can. Let us think it over until after your graduation.” I remember the June night after my graduation. Mother took me out to the Elitch Gardens to see Mrs. Elitch. There was a summer repertory company that played every season at the Gardens. Mother told her hostess of my desire to be an actress and we had a long talk. That conversation with Mrs. Elitch colored the whole future course of my life The advice she gave me theu isn't greatly

THE STAGE AND THE SCREEN

Sternad's Midgets is the headline offering at B. F. Keith's this week. -!- -|- -1Beile Oliver, an Indianapolis actress, is heading the bill at the Lyric this week. -I- -I- -IMusical comedy and movies make up the current bill at the Rialto. -I- -I- -I“Our Little Wife” is being presented at Murat this week. -I- -!- -IThe Municipal Tlayers are presenting "Antonio,” a comedy, at Brookside Tark this week. -!- -I- -!- The movies on view today Include; “Charge It,” at the Apollo: “The Heart Ppeciailist,” at the Ohio; “The Oath," at Mister Smith's; “The Rosary,” at Loew's Stato, and "Western Speed,” at the Isis.

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SPRING BYINGTON.

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learn whether they would b< A success behind the footlights. “Are you strong enough, my dear, to withstand the temptations that come from loneliness, long hours of toll and study?” Mrs. Elitch asked. “The first three or four years will be the easiest. You have youth and there is an un deniable glamor about the stage that will fortify you against its hardships. And then there will come a time when having learned Its technique and the matter o obtaining engagements will become mor assured, then the first flame of enthusiasm will be gone. But the loneliness will not be gone, nor the tedious business of study. It is then you will need your strength, physically and morally. Tiresome rides on trains, the nights in hotels after the play, the longing for loved ones far away, will accumulats many times Into sable spells of dejection And here will come temptation “If you will accept all of these elements of a stage career* study vocal culture and dancing, get a sound knowledge of the classics of the theater, then I can give you an occasional chance to work as an extra in my theater. But, my dear girl, think it over solemnly.” Then this fine old lad 7 of the theater kissed me, shook hands with my mother and we said good-night. I never had a conflicting thought in the matter, nor have I from that night to this ever regretted my decision. Two weeks later I made my first public appearance on the stage. I was one of a mob of villagers that fled down the mountainside in the van of a volcanic eruption. No actor on any stage ever invested his dramatic projection with more Intense surge and flair. At last I was an actress! (Editor's Note—The second of the series of articles by Miss Byington of “The Story cf My Stage Career,” will appear in tomorrow’s Times). Foreigners Taxed for Protection PARIS, June 15.—Defense of the “taxe de sejour,” Imposed by “baths" and other resorts on foreigners. Is made by the little mountain town of SaintPierre de Chartreuse. Saint-Pierre has used its taxes to provide railings along dangerous mountain roads, road signs, guides for excursionists, rustic bridges, an information bureau, a motor car service, a permanent physician, better roads, shade trees, benches and three public Alpine gardens. Aerial Sleeping Car in England LONDON, June 15.—“ Fly-by-night” will be more than a slang phrase if MaJ. Gen. Sir W. S. Brancker, Civil Aviation Director for Great Britain, has his way. General Brancker is backing proposals for night flying routes between Paris and London. It Is proposed to erect huge beacon lights on the ground along the route to enable the aviators to find their way from Paris to London. Aerial "sleeping" cars are not altogether an Impossibility.

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