The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-01-05
WEALTH OF ACTORS.

lcll me, VIII you, VINO are inc rlcn
actors? You can easily name them.
They are the trifers of the profess
sion, the gigglers and dancers and
character artists, Thorne was not
rich, he married money. Coghlan is
not rich. He would leave nothing if
he were to die to-day. O'Neill has
nothing beyond his salary. Booths
bankruptcy is on the records of but
n few years back. Owens, who is
reputed rich, is working in stock
company. Mccullough has saved
but little. Barrett is comfortably
off, but in no sense rich. Louis
James has good salary, but no
property.
Take the names most familiar to
us all. Are any of them known as
men of walth? Not at all. Raymond
has nothing. His head is his work
shop, and he turns out but good stuff.
So long as he retains his faculties,
mental and physical, he is certain of
handsome income Robson, prior
to his meeting with Crane, had
not cent, Neither had Crane.
They had fortunate season last
year, and may have divided $40, 200
or $50, 900, but what is that? The
Rankins are not rich. They have a
nice place for summer resting, and
now that they have gone into manage
ment, with good backing, will very
likely make money, because it is the
manager, not the actor, who has the
balance on the right side at the end
of the season.
1t is the same way with the women.
Bernhardt is rich; so is Patti; so
was Nilsson. But they are not the
people of whom we speak or write
when we talk of profession. Patti
is singer, and has the most wonder
full voice known to the decade. She
is heartily welcome to all the money
she can get, and she fortunately has
the knack of knowing how to keep
it. Bernhardt spends her money as
fast as she gets it, but she gets it so
fast that she can never be anything
but rich. Nilsson had money, but
her contemplate husband and his
relatives have swallowed the greater
part of it, and she now seeks to re-
coup by season under lucky Abbey.
But come down to the best grade
of leading women, such as Rose
Coghlan, Sarah Jewett, Maud HMri
son, Ada Rehan, Jeffreys Lewis,
Catherine Rogers, Annie Clark ;
bright, piquant, charming, interest
ing, successful as they all are, in
dustrious, intelligent, painstaking,
fortunate, peculiarly so, when judged
by their advancement in their profess
sion; they are not rich. They de-
pend upon their weekly income
for their weekly living. Take the
notable case of Miss Jewett, who,
according to her friends assertions,
and 10 general information, has been
in receipt of a large salary for the
past ten or twelve years. When she
left the Union Square to go with
Edgar's famous syndicate she had tc
borrow money of Mr.. Davidson
some 81, 900, with which to provide
wardrobe for the ensuing season
This is fair sample of the pecuniary
status of the most fortunate sisters
There is no criticism more cruel thai
that which is flippantly uttered abou
the men and women Of this exactins
life. What they do is in the public
mouth. Every petty scandal abou
them is eagerly accepted by the pub
lie ear. Surely, years of faithful
service deserve their faithful recogni
ton by the public heart, and thei
liberal support by the public purse
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