Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers ([c1913])

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Title:
Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers
Date:
[c1913]
Publisher:
New York City : Reliance Newspaper Syndicate
Volume:
Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers
Leaf #:
00042
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MOVING PICTURE ACTING all, attain good health. Examine yourself care- fully in this particular. Are you normal in every way? lips red, eyes clear, flesh firm, appetite good, nerves steady? If not, why not? Your mode of living affects your health. Many can trace bad health to certain habits or extravagant methods of living which they insist on retaining, though the advice of their physician is but a repetition of per- sonal knowledge which they could follow them- selves if they but had the courage and self-control. III. MENTAL ABILITY It has often been said, maliciously, that actors neither need nor possess brains, but are as so much human clay in the hands of the directors. This is a gross insult to the entire profession of acting, no matter in what branch. The mental power of a large percentage of the world's Thespians is not only far above the average, but in many cases re- markable. Genius has been employed in the crea- tion of some of the wonderful characters which have been unfolded to us both on the stage and on the screen. Originality and depth in a charac- terization are the products of mental force as well as feeling, and no true artist is lacking in that capacity. He who succeeds must be normal men- tally. Not all players are marvels of intellect, 'tis true, but in this work, as in all lines of endeavor, 27