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 #:
00043
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 talent amounts to little unless its "side partner" is good common-sense. A wonderful education is not necessary. In some cases it is an impossibility— in others a waste of money. No circumstances, however, make it necessary for any one to be ig- norant. "Accuse not nature, she has done her part: do thou but thine," is sound advice which should be followed. You may recall the announcement some time ago of President Eliot of Harvard University, in which he stated that he had selected the contents of an eight-foot book shelf which contained a good and sufficient education any one could personally give to himself if he so desired. This is but another way of saying that systematic home study and sensi- ble reading give in themselves a broad education and enable one to readily think and converse on in- teresting topics of the day. This is particularly helpful in theatrical work. In the studio one meets a great many different people, and unless he is in- tellectually on a plane at least with these people he will find himself somewhat alone and isolated. Then, too, a fair education, coupled with good common sense, THE essential point, carries with it a certain amount of business ability which is a coveted asset and a most beneficial possession in the field of art and literature. It is a deplorable fact, but nevertheless true, that few players have a natural or trained commercial intelligence. They spend their earnings freely, often make ill-advised investments and forget to lay by for the "rainy" 28