Life On the Stage; My Personal Experiences And Recollections
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Thus one finds that the first and clearest memory actors have of Mr.
Barrett is of his irascible temper and a certain air of su- periority, not of his erudition, of the high position he won socially as well as artistically, of the almost Titanic struggle of his young manhood with adverse circum- stances.
Nor does that imply the slightest malice on theit part.
Actors, as a family trait, have a touch of childishness about them which they come by honestly enough. We all know the farther we get fro...m infancy the weaker the imagination grows. Now it is imagination that makes the man an actor, so it is not wonderful if with the pow- erful creative fancy of childhood he should also retain a touch of its petulance and self-consciousness. Thus to many actors Mr. Barrett's greatness is lost sight of in the memory of some dogmatic utterance or sharp reproval that wounded self-love.
205 Digitized by Google 2o6 LIFE ON THE STAGE It would seem like presumption for me to offer any word of praise for the artistic work of his later years; the world remembers it; the world knows, too, how high he climbed, how secure was his position; but twice- 1 have heard the stories of his earlier years — some from the lips of his brave wife, once from the lips of that be- loved brother Joe, who was yet his dread and sorrow — and at each telling my throat ached at the pain of it, while my nerves thrilled with admiration for such en- durance, such splendid determination.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Thus one finds that the first and clearest memory actors have of Mr.
Barrett is of his irascible temper and a certain air of su- periority, not of his erudition, of the high position he won socially as well as artistically, of the almost Titanic struggle of his young manhood with adverse circum- stances.
Nor does that imply the slightest malice on theit part.
Actors, as a family trait, have a touch of childishness about them which they come by honestly enough. We all know the farther we get fro...m infancy the weaker the imagination grows. Now it is imagination that makes the man an actor, so it is not wonderful if with the pow- erful creative fancy of childhood he should also retain a touch of its petulance and self-consciousness. Thus to many actors Mr. Barrett's greatness is lost sight of in the memory of some dogmatic utterance or sharp reproval that wounded self-love.
205 Digitized by Google 2o6 LIFE ON THE STAGE It would seem like presumption for me to offer any word of praise for the artistic work of his later years; the world remembers it; the world knows, too, how high he climbed, how secure was his position; but twice- 1 have heard the stories of his earlier years — some from the lips of his brave wife, once from the lips of that be- loved brother Joe, who was yet his dread and sorrow — and at each telling my throat ached at the pain of it, while my nerves thrilled with admiration for such en- durance, such splendid determination.
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