Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-05

"a guide publishSd last wear gives lot Al
of about $500 thesters that kept opeh tneir
doors for-sn average OF forty weo Ks. Taking
the poor attraction with the ear that eli.
the theater to OVERLOOKING, the average re.
ceipts would be about 80 for each thsater
or 1915 600 paid every nigh for amuseme n IA
throughout the United Stsles. This would
make ? Total for one week OF 81 $50 600, or
Ior The entire season Of fc.iy weeks, 3 90 900
900, not counting m stinees Taking, then, an
industry that brings in over S16n,o00 900 in
round numbers during he season, the neatly
dressed men that are said TO Ehapg around
the square" Union Square, New York; are
the men that control or pull the wires ard
set the machinery in motion. Thtss figures
are, after all, but approximate, and neither
include mstinees, which in themselves wonld
count 81 100000, nor does it include the
circus world, which Is BOT represented on the
RIalto.n
The "peatly dressed men" who are seen
ION the square' in the summer mouths are
managers aud actors, and apart from the
monstrous figures of the above kind that are
pubiished now al then, there is little gen.
eral knowledge OF their methods Of business,
or the rewards they obtain, or the mi,for-
tunes that fall to their loi while their working
SEASON lasts. Occasionally an item appears
In print 10 The eff: ct that Patti recei we'd
$4,000 a concert from Abbey during last sea-
son, which che didn't, and that Christine
Nilsson will get $4,000 for each evenings
singiGg during the American tour she is
about to enter upon, which she won't get, and
people immediately mp at ths conclusion
that there is
NOTHING BUT GLORIOUS FORTUNES
for the portion Of every player in the land,
and unfold wealth and volumes OF fame 10
store for all who set their trembling ieet
upon the stage. In this they are mis- AIKEN.
There are princely salaries cnly for The few !.
the great army of histrions-thoss who fill
The lower rahks-sre scarce y better re-
warded than people 10 other professions who
are not subj ct 20 so much public scrutiny or
compelled 10 put up with the has dships and
perils OF constant travel. If there is any
difference in the amounts earned by The aver
age player and the average bookkeeper and
newspaper reporter the excess 10 favor OF
the stage does not begin 10 make up for the
lost pleasures Of home and the missing salts
fac ion there is in having and knowing a
permanent place OF abode and wide CIRCLE
of friends, whose very greeting has always
bsen a Joy as welcome AS The morning. Alb
hey paid Patti $3.50 a concert, and will pay
Nilsson $1,000 and her expenses; he viii pay
Mrs. Langtry $1,000 a night and a
percentage over Certain amount I;
John ( Osens get $3.50 a week from
the Madison Square TheAIer people of New
York, for playIng Cd Rodgers" in Esme.
Toidd; w. Couldoek j. paid al cut the
same figures for PLAYING "Dunstan'' in Hazel
RTke; Charles r. Thorne, lead .ng m an Of
the Union Square company, 9. Is $3.50 week I;
John Gilbert, the veteran comedian, is paid
like amount. James Lewis, of Dlly's
Theater, sni Stoddsrd, the am. dian f The
Union SOU ire company, have each over 500
week. These people RE all we'll known /;
their names stand Gus promin IL in the
everyday history Of The worlds amusemeuts,
and their pay Is com men u ale With the adj
vertisiug draugh is 10 heir regulations /;
bat take the c'ses of people with smaller
manner, and see VIVA they are paid ADD what
they must pay out in return; then balance up
the accounts aud compare the result with the
huan>ial outcome of he years toll in any
other Objectionable player has not
saved any more than has the msn
of another profession, although he rs
not INDUCED in any extravasabt expeps g,
and neither himself nor any m -m b. r # his
fsmily has as fully tujpyea the fruits of his
lab9r a. the fruits Of the non-tbeatricsl
msn's work have been erj yed by his fami' y
and himself There are lev people in any
branch of the amusement profession, nova
days, who are not cii eumsPect in their mones
oil living and try to. b. very careful with
their dollars and dimes, seeming slways 10
be on the lookout for lhreaiened rainy day
SO that the fact that they 90 not grow rich
with any gresLer rapidly than their fellow
wAge-Workers can be altribu ed only 10 the
other fac, that they are poi any better paid.