ABSTRACT
The work of an actor looks easy because it is agreeable and the results are attractive. The life of the majority of actors is difficult and unlovely. In such theatres the actor's dressing rooms are usually partitioned off in some dark corner of the stage with thin wooden walls, rather like box stalls. Most actors are obliged by necessity to accustom themselves to spending three quarters of their lives in a dirty shed. Perhaps the present movement to found a sanatorium near some mineral springs in the Caucasus offers the possibility for needy and exhausted actors to enjoy the gifts nature has lavished on that country for the benefit of suffering humanity. The actor exchanges the light of the morning sun and fresh air for the dark of night and the dark painful life in the wings, and his rest he exchanges for the blinding brilliance of the footlights.
