ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3148, 30 July 1881, Page 4

ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.

They are men and women from every rank of society, mostly of strong emotional temperament, leading a peculiarly exciting and exhausting life, surrounded by many temptations, subject to great flatteries, lrring in the eye of the public, and it would be iH ■ t.> i-Ttiect to find all of them patterns .■•• ,[.■::■-■ But that they, as a class, fall so .■ ~.:. •.-..-.*• :i onl° in other •'■ ■:'-. i:> : ■■ ■:),• ;'. '..■ f ••,-» '(?.- ---;: ■•..■;■•••..•_ ■•.■: ■ •■„.•■ •.: .•' ••. ■• ■ ; V ■■•■•■ ■■■ V.-j ; • ■ ;■-. .. ■• -■ ■ •■ '-■ \ \ ■■'•■/ V ■:; v•■ .<• ;l. ••.•"•■■:' ■ ■ '■■• ■,- 1•■ '.:.'-:~' • '-..- ,v ■■.'■... ■:■: ■. • '■■', r.<\'\ irenerou* '■ ■ :.:•..•; ~ . u . lo l\ke s to be judged ■• •'• ■•■■ > ::•■: ''.!!•. fruit, j'fo profession is • .•",.:.:• ...■ ,'f its cloth. But a profession '■Ir. ■:, «i .■.;:■ !..ers among its living and its dead ••ii'\" iiumes as A! aoready, Kemble, Oushmnn, I'nrepa-Rosa, Tarey, Phillipps, Trying, Booth, TSarrett, and Jefferson, need not hang its head very low for shame. Where can you find more polished ladies and gcatlemen ? where can you find more genial friends ? where can you find a readier beneficence P and of some of tharn at least one is justified in saying, wheie can you find better Christians? I am proud to number some of them among my friends. It is not easy to escape the stigma of a bad name. For a great many years the actor has been spoken against, has been debarred social privileges, has been crowded down and put out, and it ■would be more than strange if he had not often made himself what he has been oalled, and thus added to the prejudice and abuse. And T want to say another tiling. The actor's sins are mostly open and paten* - They are largely faults of appetite, and are oftenest committed against himself. He i? not a thief ; he does not rob your banks. FTe is no cruel; he does not whip innocent children nnd sturve orphans. He does not plot deliberate villanies. He is no hypomt*. t'if> floak of heaven to servhiivolf in I do nor pxtenunte his vice* wi'*:; ht> \ : ti-i them, hn- T liiive come to thin!: that the word virtue should mean something besides freedom from open physica' sin ; have come to think that it should mean honesty, generosity, strength of character. and whole-heartedness.— Rev. T. A. Forbush, of Detroit.