AMATEURS V. PROFESSIONALS.

Evening Star, Issue 3709, 12 January 1875, Page 3

AMATEURS V. PROFESSIONALS.

(From an American paper ) There is an au old adage that two of a kind never atree, and the:e seems lo be too much similiarity of .bought and life existing between amateur players and professional actors and actresses to permit them to coexist in harmony. As a rule, professionals cannot endure amateurs. n actor and an actress make all the fun they can of private theatricals. Some managers even go so far as to r*-fuse to treat with persons who have been amateurs, an 1 it is a maxim of the profession, ilia'’nothing so anoils one f *r the regular stage as the amateur B‘ago And, really, there arec •moaranv Iv fe v i istauces of great actors or 1> ading act ess is ever having been reared among the ranks of amateur players. Perhaps this arises from the almost utter lack of conscientious and industrious study upon the amateur stage, and, perhaps, also, principally from the easily grat tie' self-conce t which seems to be one of the strongest characteristics of the amateur player. Strange to say, however, although the professional do not at all admire or envy the amateurs, the amateurs mo-t heartily envy, ; dnnre, and imitate (except in their industry am professional discipline) the pro fcssionals. 1 bis seems to ba one of the few cases in which a rule do s not work both ways—or, rather, it is an example of unreciprocated affection : the amateurs being devotedly attached to the stage, but the stage obstinately refusing to return the attachment.