AN. ACTRESS' CONFIDENCES.
Madame Helene Oditon, tho celebrated German actress, in a "Book of Confidences," says that 6he owes much to laughing. Until her thirty-ninth year her lifo consisted „of ono Ion? laugh. Then the seriousness of life surprised her. When a child she '. worked at washing clothes. She was dismissed from her first 6tago engagement "for conspicuous lack of, talent."- Sho' believes an actress ought not to marry. Sho has a,higher mission than to obey a husband. The exceptions confirm tho rule. An actress can never Be a good housewife. In the theatrical profession one has to count with the jealousy of husbands. Every grasp of the hands, every look, every stage kiss, ;every.embrace, all of which are required-by the author, oxcite jealousy. One is either a woman and abandons the stage, or one is an actress, and must abandon marriage.
Husband: "It's a great thing—th,at accident insurance. I havo taken out a policy soi that if,' for instance, 1 merely break my arm, I receive £500." Wife: "Wouldn't that be nice! Then I could take a trip to tho lliyiora." ' ', One of tho most important female qualities is sivcctnes3. of temper. Heaven did not ['ive to women insinuation and persuasion in order to be imperious; it did not give them a sweet voice to bo employed in scolding,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19090908.2.4.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
220AN. ACTRESS' CONFIDENCES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in