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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE, 1935
109
her mother had suddenly, at the age of forty, turned to the well-thumbed pages of Gray's "Anatomy." A few years later she received ' her M. D.
All this was bound to have its effect on Rachel, youngest of nine children. Hers was i a lonely life; in a kind of blind desperation, she began to build houses on the floor for her dolls and live out, as she describes it, their full lives. "Talking aloud for them like that," she says, "I began to play at playwright before I knew what a play was." Soon, as a matter of course, she was writing "novels," , and even a play: "Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining, or The Ruined Merchant."
Afler being graduated from Illinois State Normal, she set out, starry-eyed, to seek her fortune in New York. She found it.
But first there were years of struggle. Miss Crothers had only $300 and an unconquerable faith in herself. When an interview with Daniel Frohman, dean of theatrical producers, came to naught, she entered the Wheatcroft School of Acting. It was there that she received a grounding in that fearful and wonderful art which was one day to be truly hers. ; Soon she was coaching other students, and i even writing plays for them — typical, adolesi cent pieces like "The Rector," "A Water , Color," "Elizabeth" and "Which Way?"
i IN 1906, Carlotta Nielson, the actress, per
1 'suaded a manager to put on "The Three of
Us," by Rachel Crothers. In it occurred a
, scene in which the heroine, crying out that
, she was able to look after herself, hied her to
j a man's room. This was considered very
daring at the time; but it didn't hurt the play
i any. "The Three of Us" marked the begin
! ning of its author's investigation of the social
attitude toward women, and was an instan
i taneous hit.
Since then, she has averaged a play a year.
If, out of it all, she has evolved any enduring
\ philosophy, she thinks it is this: "We bring
all our misfortunes on ourselves. If somebody
has deceived us, we've allowed ourselves to
make a mistake in judgment. Every failure
I've had has been my failure; my play was
1 wrong. It is a most unhappy philosophy to
believe we have been injured by others."
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