Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-02-02
ACTORS WAGES.
Enormous Prices Paid to Players.
What operate Artists 0,t
Ne Artistic at-ndard er Price...A
Player Worth All sae Cas
sset--.The Dress
lniquity.
New York Wurl,ll

'Anai husseli. VINO gets About slJO We,
10 Ad''ina Patti, who makes sl0bW week.
Success has very wide margin
well, can't you average it. What is .
good leading LADY, believe that's what you
call em-woithH
shes worth all she can get, as a rule. She
ranges from ESQ to ESQ. Miss Weaver, Of
booths company, let Us say. gets SIS a wsek,
and Miss Sara Jewett. at Stetson, gets Sl50A
week They are both leading, but when IL
COMES to money, one leads the other"
when Jewett started out with Elgar she
waste get $1,000 fou see, q woman is worth
I'd manager ali that she will draw. The
question oil intrinsic worth doesnt enter into
It's calculations Some Of them are called
gems and diamonds Of the purest water by
you newspaper people. but that's pure
rhetoric. A diamond has fixed value, but
there Is nothing in tine world that fuctuates
so much Us woman's commercial value On
the stage. I've known il To 20 up 300 per
cent. ~ a night and I've known il to fall ID
that amount IN week
.From what causes"
Accidents. The ability didn't vary, but
the demand did. She gets cast in q play
that DOESN'T lit her: she make. two or three
mistakes: she is misnlanaged, and down she
eoes The fact Is there is nothing in the
worii 80 Fictitious M the price Of an artist,
and II never bears any relation To her ability.
What does IL bear relation tor
TO her face, her vogue. her celebrity, the
amount v space she occupies in the papers
and the kind Of personal agent she hires.
LOOK at Kate Claxton She Is one Of the
TEST paying attraction now ON the stage hut
sne does not rank at all as an actress. A
nre made her. Look at Rose Eytinge, con.
cedei by managers and critics to BE- one OF
II NOT the best general leading women We
nave got She cannot play to even good
business In New York. Look at Ellen Terry.
There are half score 1t managers here
willing to star her at her own terms. hut
there Is Ada Rehan, at Daly's, who can do
the same business and Is younger and fresher,
who gets hund, ed week When Prescott
got through playing Emilia 10 Salvinis
Othello she wanted 500 week. But down
went her price a Salvini faded from view"
What do You estimate Iangtry's ability
% bes"
Its pretty hard thing 10 estimater
"Oh. well, mean how does Sue rank as an /,
actres, alopp,i,l. of clara Morris ami p.
Eytlnge and Miss wainwright,-
SIN my opinion she doe, not rank a, ALL
"well, she makes more money than al,
them"
There is Mr.. Charles Coph,an. who no. !,
received th. highest salary ever raid ,oa !,
leading member Of a stock comany~Iet n. !.
'ay double that which ANYBODY else has re
viewed DO Won tLink me- n,s,,...as douIl. ,bo
amount of ability" You ,ee these ,bing. /,
cannot he scheduled ON an artistic ha.is :
they are purely commercial matters /.
nave seen girl who was getting eI5 . wset :,
make a great hit in a small mart. ret a lot of
rood notices in the p,e,, the mart morninr >,
md then demand s75 a weeL and get n :.
ave seen women who couId not sst s,o
week in any company strike somelSdv with \,
NAV ami s,mahoiy ~ u,,,I . ,;,,,. wv. Wv"
al, start out on the roaI and after ham,e,. -
no AWAY for .,.bils n,.L. s.,..,.I sha..., !,
ollars But these are nre excen,ions !.
here's NOT o,s vop,n in s.n ,wha e.a. '.
nake, money for be,,sls A. r,,,s .n,,, s,s' 81
NJ worse Inanager. even sar ,hsnsaI.ss -.
han actors are" =