GO ON STAGE AFTER YOU HAVE INCOME

"In the first place I wouldn't advise any young college chap to go on the stage unless he has an income of his own", said Cyril Maude, the English actor who is now in Boston starring in "Aren't We All?" at the Hollis Street Theatre.

As he sat in his dressing room after the matinee, sipping a cup of tea, Mr. Maude rambled on. "I sent my boy to Oxford to prepare for a career at the bar. I never should have wanted him to go on the stage, but as I say, it isn't nearly half so bad if you have a separate income to ride you over the bumps.

Harvard Lucky to Have Baker

"You know though", he continued, "you chaps at Harvard are unusually lucky with Professor Baker and his 47 Workshop. By the way I hear he hasn't been treated very well in regard to buildings, is that true?"

When answered in the affirmative, Mr. Maude exclaimed, "You know, that is a shame. Why, I have always been a great supporter of college courses in dramatic writing. Before I ever came to this country I tried to persuade Oxford and Cambridge to adopt something of the sort. Mind you that was before I ever had heard of Professor Baker. The critics laughed at me and Punch published a rather humiliating but very amusing cartoon of Bernard Shaw. Barrie, and other well-known playwrights all sitting in front of a blackboard at school. Then when I came over here you can imagine my satisfaction in finding something of the sort at both Columbia and Harvard.

"If I were a young American considering going on the stage I think I should go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. It is under the supervision of such men as Pinero, Barrie, Shaw and Forbes-Robertson. It is conducted without profit, all money that happens to be made being turned back into the improvement of the school's facilities.

"The way dramatic writing and acting is being taught these days one can learn the essence of the profession in a few years in comparison to the long road of failure we older actors had to travel."