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IX
Actual and Ideal Training for the
Stage
THE
career of William Warren as a
histrionic artist is of special inter-
est for the light which it throws
upon the vexed question of education for
the stage. His exceptional record implies,
of course, in the man, those exceptional
native gifts which have been considered.
But it is equally plain that his powers
had been highly developed by training
and practice, and that his art had been
enriched and refined by intelligent and
industrious culture. It is true that he had
the right ancestral bent, and was born to
the passion of the stage, and that the force
of the inherited instinct and aptitude of
the actor seems to be more potent than
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