The Stage As a Career; a Sketch of the Actor's Life; Its Requirements, Hardships, And Rewards
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When a youth well brought up takes to the stage he should not be immediately treated as a pariah. On the con- trary, if ever there be a time in the young man's career when more than ever he stands in need of good home traditions, the companionship of his equals, and the encouragement of his superiors, it is when he has honestly chosen as a means of earning his living the stage as his profession. That, for evident reasons, it has been usually se- lected by the dissolute, the idle, and those to w...hom any restraint is distasteful, accounts to great extent for the disrepute in which the stage has been held. Of course the statute-book and the Puritanism of the seventeenth century have much to answer for in the popular estimate of the players. There is a strong leaven of Puritanism The Social Status of the Stage 47 among us, and in some respects so much the bet- ter ; but also among very excellent people of various religious opinions there has been and exists now a sort of vague idea that the stage has always been under the positive ban of the Church.
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