The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-09-14
ACTORS At LONG BRANCH.
Some Of the Prominent Stars Of the Stage.
Long Branch Corr. N. Y. Graphic.

Long Branch Corr. N. Y. Graphic.
Maggie Mitchell has 100000 worth oi
property at Long Branch, where she resides.
1t is productive only in hay, corn, rents and
produce. and is held as an investment. A
part of it fronts the sea in the northern end
of the Branch, next to Mammoth Park.
She lives about one mile back of the sea,
and has two children, and she IS Al years
Ohio. and was mercantile man. She has
no business ability to speak of,and he trav-
els with her, and attends to her affairs.
She has no new pieces, and says she can't
get anybody 10 write anything that will
will suit her. Yet, want of expenditure
may have something to do with it, Adver-
tise for new piece within a certain time,
and pay small premiums for second and
third choice.
Frank Cbanfrau lives here, well to do.
His wife also stars herself, separately,
though Chanfrau said: s'I'll pay you as
much money as you are earning "That
I'll get in any event." she says and vanish
es again into the mimic world.
Ned Adams is sick in California, his
voice lost, his health gone. What voice
nature gave him He was like an DER
beautiful woman, caressed too often and
too fiercely. His little property here is all
that is left. Deaths poor player that
frets as we'll as life.
Bouccicault has been visiting the beautiful
Katherine Rogers at the Branch-formerly
Galatea, the beloved statue of Pygmalion.
He is to bring out "The Bridal Tour" at
Wallack's something new. Bouccicault
has made nearly 100000 out of the
"Shaughraun "-often playing it for &c.
500 week. He sends it off with a compa-
pany this year. Mr.. Phillips has recently
painted portrait of Bouccicanit for Gener-
al p. Fl. Jones.
John Mccullough, the manager and ira
gedian, has met with great losses during
the past few months, attributed by mana
gers to personal neglect of his theatre i'll
the ambition to be star. He was worth
about 800, 900, and owned one-third of the
California Theatre. His manager in San
francisco was Barton Hill, and his pat
rons had been both Ralston and Bonanza
Mackey. By Ralston's death he lost many
thousand dollars. Loans repaid to the
bank, but had not been entered by Ralston
on the banks books. In an 1rish-otic
spirit, and to protect Ralston's fame, Nc
Cullough undertook to pay the loans twice.
He leased Luckey Baldwin's Theatre at a
time when confidence was gone in specula-
tive society, and he undertook to carry that
thca re as we'll as the California Theater.
Mccullough has now returned to the Cali
fornia Theatre and it will take all his at
tention to revive il. Formerly, it was the
most profitable theatre in the United States
and paid the largest engagement rates to
actors. 1t is better to be a profitable man.
ager than popular actor.
Edwin Booth receives th highest rates
as star of any American actor. Nelson,
the English actress, said once to be bar
maid, receives 60 per cent. of the gross re-
ceipts of the theatres where she plays.
Run down with lovers, she is never merce-
nary. She loves them for the dangers they
have passed, and they love her that she
does pity them. Nelson is said to have
made $780, the first year she came to
America. One Of the sick critics of New
York is nearly dead for Nelson.
There are over 60 travelling combinations
this year, of which 40 will go to the sheriff.
The rates demanded by actors Of even me-
diocre talent are enormous-40, 30, and GO
per cent. gross. One manager cannot pay, |
another will try. So the managers and les
sees have come to be mere janitors of their
own buildings.