Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-08
ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.
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Something About Other Peoples
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Life Of the Petssof the Public.
People who occupy public positions In
some sort OF way belong TO the public, or
at least the dear public imagines they do,
and hence q cry general curiosity about
their private life, their ways and habits,
behind the curtain. Actors and actresses
come in for large share Of this curiosity,
and that public upon whose approving
smiles their whole fortune and happiness
depend, hugely enjoy any little bits of in
formation regarding the fortunes and do
mestic relations Of their favorites. Most
wonderful stories are told, and more than
tacitly encouraged, as rule, both by the
parties concerned and amusement mana
gers in general, about the wealth and enor-
nous salaries of the popular people. The
New York NelrS dishes up quite an inter-
esting lot of this sort of intelligence, which
we present for what it is worth.
THE OPERA.
Madame Lucca is the first one presented.
This little lady, says the writer, who for ten
years has been the admiration of Europe,
has appeared in all the principal opera
houses Of Europe, and made crest deal
of money. She married, two years ago, q
Prussian Baron, an officer in the army.
The money she had made in ten years he
squandered in one. Before she came here,
she-Lucca-was obliged to plege part Of
her jewelry to pay his debts.
When she landed here, had her voice, for
instance, failed her, all she had in the world
was a few precious stones saved from the
wreck after series OF triumphs, which
| Shout ! forever have placed her above want.
She now lives at No. IL East Fourteenth
| street, In very unostentatious manner,
and earns, during the season, $1,000 for
each night she sings. This is not as much
as Nilsson, who was paid 81 900 in gold for
each performance, and shared with the man
4 aeer after $1,000 receipts. Her earnings
never ran below $500, and sometimes
reached 5000 in a single night. Nilsson
| took with her from this country about
100000 for her two seasons of song.
Madame Lucca will probably take about
| $4,000, which after all, is pretty respect
able. Kellogg is paid $500 for each night
she sings. Signor Abrugnedo, the tenor
of the troupe, will be paid 1900 per month.
| The other salaries fall far below this.
| Messrs. jarrett aud Maretzek are the man
ayers.
Mr.. Jarrett was the agent of Nilsson in
this country, and was formerly the private
secretary of Mspleson, the London opera
manager. In the Strakosch troupe the sa-
laries run also very high. Mile. Carlotta
Patti is paid $500 per night on an engage
| ment of one hundred weeks. Mile. Patti
is the sistar-in-law of Max Strakoscb, bis
| brother Maurice having married one of the
! Patti sisters. Signor Mario-poor old
| Mario!-who has earned in his life very
| near upon three million dollars, and is now
worth but little, is paid 81, 900 q month 10
| gold. Miss Gary, the charming contralto,
receives 5000 per month in gold; Ronconi
$50 each performance and expenses. n.
Sauret and Nile. Carreno are paid nominal
salaries compared with these.
In the Rubinstein troupe, under the vets
ran Grau, Salaries run somewhat lower.
The great pianist himself is paid $4,000 3
month. The violinist, Winiauski, is paid
$1,000 a month. The other salaries are
nominal. Maurice Grau also has hand in
the pie, and this season runs two institu-
tions-Rubinstein an the Aimee Opera
Bouffs company. Aimee, alreadya popular
favorlte, has salary of $1,000 per mouth
in gold. Louise ROLAND and the old favor
ite, Gabel, are IN the company. They re-
csive, also, pretty large salaries. The head
| quarters of the company were at Pbillippe's.
In Clinton Place Aimeei is not in the ma
trimonial field any more. She married
young Jolly, the Broadway dyer. BE was
diving for Aimee so long thst she took him
Let us leave the field of music, and come
to that of
DRAMATIC LIFE.
For the first let Us take up Mr.. and Mrs,
Boucicault, the opponents of Irish drama at
Booths. This couple receive $500 per
night for their services. Boucicault ia bis
life has made something over 100000 by
his plays alone; but he spent it as fast as
: it came. He made the engagement at
Booths before he thought Of producing the
great spectacle Of "Babel and Before" in
London, and he bad to keep the engage
ment and leave his venture in other hands.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boucicaplt live in gorgeous
apartments at the Clarendon, the same
which Nilsson had last year, and Dion en-
joys life as it comes. .r- E-g
Miss Lydia Thompson and her company
are managed by that very sauve gentleman,
Mr.. Alexander Henderson, who is now the
husband ofthe English blonde. Miss Thomp
son, when she came here, WIS not worth
! much, but she is now said to be worth
$4,000. Her success has been as singular
as it has been extraordinary. Miss Thomp-
son is now forty-three years of age, aud is
still unquestionably pretty. Those who
think Miss Thompson gay and frivolous are
in error. There was never more indus
trious woman than Miss Lydia. She hard
Iy ever goes out excepting to the theatre
, She works from dawn of day until night al
the sewing machine, making all the dresses
!, of her company, including her own, and
constantly refuses pleasure parties, because
as she says, "She is too busy" Miss Thomp-
son has often been accused of stinginess-
yet she is not stingy, but merely good
business woman, who knows theatrical
, life thoroughly, and intends to make all
, there is 10 be made. Harry Beckett is
paid $3.50 per week in gold; Amy Sheridan
, eighty dollars; Camille Dubois fifty dollars,
/ aud so on in decreasing ratio.
MORE RCV ONES. .
They do say that Harry Beckett is worth
$4,000. When be came to this country
| in 1865, bis salary was $75 per week. Now
, it has been raised to $3.50. The happy fam
ily, when at the Occidental here, had it:
/ turmoils. The pretty Camille Dubois lef
in 8 short time. Things didn't suit her
J Rose Caghlan also separated her menagt
from that Of the others. The attempt tC
: domesticate awhole company in one hos.
/. telry failed as usual. The petty jealousie!
OF the stage are too much for human ma
3 ture.
: Lydia expected that Amy Sheridan
would be the ssms card in this country tina
she was in England. Amy, however, failed
( to hit the popular idea, and she felt the re
: buff which attends all actresses who do not
accomplish what is expected of them. Sht
also left her quarters at the Occidental anc
n went 70 the ''Maison Doree," WherS she
}. had a charming suite ofrooms, furnished il
|. exquisite style. Amy had q love OF tbs
# beautiful, aud, above all, liked to show ii
. in arrangement sad pretty decoration o
her rooms. Birds and flowers are her de
6 light, and her part ialiJy for them is readil.
!. seen in some beautiful dracenias and rost
n bushes which adorn her parlor, as well a
r in several gilded cages made melodious b.
! feathered songsters.
a IN wALLACK's.
Let US take a turn into Wallsck's near
:. by. Here is the immortal Lester himself
b. who is still the best light comedian Of tn,
f day. Of the stage be shows bis years mucl
| mora i,areentihlV than when the glare o