Henry Irving a Short Account of His Public Life

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Henry Irving a Short Account of His Public Life
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
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Irving that every actor is not always in full employment. * * * And who has now to pay for such schooling as Mr. Ir- ving advocates, as too many of our young actors only get ? What of us, the poor public — the vile corpus on whom these painful experiments are made ?" Here again we think is a critic who has failed to understand that it is Mr. Irving's own ex- perience that leads him to speak thus. The ques- tion we think is past disputing as to whether such a course of training is the best or no...t — the real point and a far more vital question now, is whether the school which we, like Mr. Irving, think so much the best still exists. The system of long 12 * l8o HENRY IRVING.
runs on one hand and touring with companies on the other is we fear sapping it at the root. Mr. Irving graduated in it, nay has come out first wrangler ; but he must pardon us for pointing out that the training which one of his own young subordinates may get from seeing him play Romeo, Hamlet, Shylock, what not, for weeks together and playing under him — even if he should rise from figuring as Bernardo to performing Horatio or Bassanio — has absolutely no relation either as mental education, or practical experience or, as we might say, moral training, to the schooling that contributed to make him what he is.


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