ACTRESSES AND MANAGER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 May 1907, Page 4

ACTRESSES AND MANAGER.

11EA1, I'iENII'SES ASKED TO REMAIN SIXtiLE. London, March 17). Should actresses marry V This interesting question was diseased by members of the Playgoers' Club who met yesterday at the Hotel Cecil. Dr Rappoport opened the discussion with an address, in which he gave an emphatic affirmative to the question.

"An artist without human attach-' ments is unable to render certain human emotions," he said. "An actress who is not married cannot succeed in her art like a woman who has faced the responsibilities of married life.

I have noticed that actresses act better after marriage than before having acquired thereby a certain seriosness, a grandeur and a certain grip which makes their emotions much stronger. "That great actress, Adelaide de Ristori, used to nurse her baby between the acts. / "Actresses with ordinary talents should marry, .and marriage enhances their acting, but if there is an actress on the stage who is a real genius she should remain single. LIKE AND UNLIKE. "For sociological reasons I disapprove of consanguineous marriages, and consanguinity in this connection may be mental as well as physical. People who live in Park lane develop a Park line mind. On that analogy people of the same occupation should not marry—hence actresses shohl not marry actors.

"Let them marry dramatic critic- or other literary men. I could name one or two London actresses who owe their success to their husbands. It is opposite who attract one another."

The chairman (Mr K. Havers) said he was disappointed that Dr Rappoport did not say whether actresses should marry actor-managers. .Mr L. Cowen said that as married lady doctors and lady journalists could attend to their duties as wives, so could married actresses. Dr Rappoport seemed to think opposites should marry, but he (Mr Cowen) thought like mated with like.