Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-24
THE FOOTLIGHT QUEENS THEA
SUIsN.
What the Ladies of the Stock COmpa
MES Enrn-Big and Little Salaries.
From the New York Mroning Journal.l

From the New York Mroning Journal.l
| Miss Anderson demands of managers about
G5 or roper cent. of the gross receipts. Ther
she pays her company, her printing bill and
the travelling expenses of everybody, and the
result at the end of the season is about $50,
900. This is all made during season of &c
or 81 weeks. Lolita claims that she made
nearly 500, 900 last season. This may be Ia
ken with a grain of salt, and yet some of hel
receipts were enormous. For instance, near
ly $4,000 in Philadelphia in one week, OF
which sum she got 70 per cent. and paid very
| cheap salaries out of it,
The dsproporlion between such stars and
other ladies in the same company perhaps
who play almost equally important parts is
enormous. While Lolita may make $500
in week, her principal female support, who
stands almost co-Cqual in the eyes of the i,,-
dicncc gets perhaps $50, not over $50 ut the
outside
Both Mary Anderson and Lolita remain
abroad this season. Another prominent
American actress now abroad is Miss Mimi,
Palmer, who seems to have taken Euglanl
by storm. She is packing her houses every
where, and report says has done "A business it
| such cities as Manchester and Liverpool fal
greater than Joe" Emmet or Edwin Booth
OF course it will help her enormously whcr
she comes back here,
| Stock actresses-that is to say those who
appear in rural parts at regular theatres
make no such money as Miss Anderson Of
Lolita. Yet they do pretty well-very wei
some of them. Miss Sarah Jewe,t, wher
she left the Union Square, for instance, wa.
| getting $3.50 week. The George Edga
company, with which she has gone, pays he
$500.
Now Rose Coghlan has stood at the heat
of our leading ladies in New York for somt
years. Taken ali around there are few
better actress. We certainly have none who
can play equally well the legitimate and thu
| sensational. She was engaged at Wallack!
for $50 week, but now receives $275. On
of this she is compelled to pay for her COS
tunes, which, if the plays are offer
| changed, is an expensive item, bu
comparatively small where she had to ap
pear in poor hablaments for many nights
in such plays as the "Silver King Sh,
complains that she is not able to save
any of her salary and that at the end o
many years she docs not find herself an,
better Off. Miss Measor, who is the juve
nile lady at Waack's, and who has becl
fairly successful, receives SO week
Madame Ponisi is paid $50. Among til,
ladies there are no other important sal
aries. Miss Blaisdell gets S25 and SO OF
down.
Mr.. DAILY pays Miss Rchan, who is respon
siblc for much OF her success TO his theatre
while travelling $500 II week, but in the city
ouly $3.50. Miss May Fielding received S6
a week. but she las gone to Europe Mis-
Lizzie Jeremy, who has taken her place, i
to be paid $50 week, but certain expense
will be paid that raise it in reality up I,
800. Miss Virginia Droher got $50, AM
several other ladies who are not PROMINENT J.,
known received from that down to $25
Mrs. Gilbert, that perennial favorite, VIII
is always welcome, and whose successes rur
back almost two score of years, is paid $40,
II week, and is well satisfied with the man
ner in which it enables her to live.
The Madison Square Theatre has the rep
utation of paying smaller salaries than tn
other first-class theatres, and if calculated
by the week the reputation is probably true
But this theatre offers longer engagement
than any other, which accounts for it. Mos
of the contracts signed nowadays are for 81
weeks. The Madison Square, in many in
stances, oilers an engagement of 40 or 8
weeks in year, which gives the certainty u
comfort and peace of mind. When Mrs
Agnes Booth left the theatre she was pait
$3.50 week. Mr.. Stcson, who has engag
cd her for the coming season, has contractct
/ to pay her $500 week, and he can plac
i her anywhere he peises. The ladies en-
, ployed by the Madison Square arc, however
! usually quite well paid, Miss Carrie Tul
ner now gets 800 week, Miss Ada Dya
$3.50.
|, The new management of the Union Squar
r is launching cut Into pretty heavy expenses
= They could not get Alice Dunnipg for leaC
? ing lady under $3.50 week. The engag,
, ment of Miss Minnie Conway may turn OF
i a good one She is to be paid 800 Seve
h al of the minor ladies who were in the con
+ pany have been re-engaged, but there is n
salary among them that is over $50.