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Mr. fVar field Declines a Million 161
sensational disappearance from public view of which the world has record."
“You admit yourself to be roped and tied by that line at the box office?” I sadly queried.
“I do, cheerfully,” he cheerfully replied. “And I am not this season talking Othello, or even Shylock. It’s you writers that are always nagging an actor on to play something ‘big,’ something by which he can be ‘measured.’ In this, old man, you yourself have been a great offender.
“I played Vanderdecken for men like you,” he went on, the memory saddening him. “And it was a very expensive performance — for Belasco and me. We piffled a whole season away, and I worked my darned head off to get back the cost of the production.”
“You’ve quit educating the public at your own expense? Is that it?”
“My dear boy, it can’t be done. The very idea presupposes yourself as superior to the public, in both taste and purse. It would be snobbish, not to say vulgar. An actor doesn’t tell the public, he submits his work. What the public doesn’t want it won’t pay for; it is only by the public’s grace that an actor acts — never forget that.”
“I have been accused of playing ‘The Music Master’ for the money there is in it,” he was saying.
“Really?”
“Really. And the accusation is true. Even an actor must be recompensed. But I can convince you in five minutes that there’s another reason for my playing Von Barwig than the money.”
“Here are your five minutes.”