The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-10-16
Actresses and Tn sir Fortunes.
HoWare in PHILADELPHIA Press.


Fanny Davenport at one time was the
most pTs'iit.b,e star Ia the county She
WAS worked up 10 pitch of pupul .rIty
by Days shTeHd management, bt I own
beauty and talent uDqusstIuuabiy aiding
very largely III that 4. sued result. She
received from $3.50 to $500 a uight tor a
long time. Then she married aid ought
play, snd last sr8son made very
handsome fortune. al tue CXI euSe, j
fear, of sturdy good he 9TH.
Her father was off and on IN SuccG SIS.
In the latter years OF his life ne prefer
red q salary. Jarrett s. Palmer pa d
him $500 week. / think his Hllnlt
was the truest to that phenomenon We
haYe seen in this country. 1t was great
lV admired by students. and he was Of
ten referred TO as an authority com
pliment which doubt very much was
John Mccullough. Davenport was
quite old when he died, his children
grown up and married, and although he
left some property farm, think, in
PennsylVanla-he was not rich, and
hadn't the money making faculty.
Lolita Is very rich. For manv years
she shared after expenses, allowing $3.50.
For instance, if the expenses were $500,
she shared after $50 were taken out.
She has been before the eastern public
since 1868, at which time she appeared
at Niblo's. Prior 10 that she danced
and PLAYED in San Francisco saloons. and
made pile of money. She is quoted at
half q million, and is very careful of it
all. The gossip about her connection
with Mr.. Abbey and her helpful.
popular director of events
is pure bosh. He managed her theatri-
cal business with great success and pro-
ut for her and tor himself, and when he
went into the Park theater enterprise, in
Boston, she provided a part of the needed
capital. When he went to Europe he
parted with his interest in the Park
tbsater, and she took It.
Maggie Mitchell is married Judge
Maggie to be about 46 or Al. She is a
a very shrewd business woman, with q
sense about her. She travels with her
managers and clears in good seasons all
the way from $1,000 to 81 800 per week.
fn Clara Morris has had q peculiar career
She can make a contract with a mana
ger for 100 nights for $500 eight when
ever she will agree to play regularly.
She has been on the stage now about
thirty years, but until she Joined Mr.
Daly'a company never had any prOmin-
ence or money. imagine he paid her
very meagerlY at first, but she soon
assumed heroic proportions, and
developed so fast into lead
ing positions that stardom was one of
the unavoidable consequences. Her
health has never been good, and man
ayers, in making contracts, are forced to
keep that fact in mind.
met this afternoon, on an East River
ferryboat, Mrs. Barney Williams, look
ing IS bright and handsome as she did
when I first saw her, twenty five years
ago, with Barney, on the stage of the
Walnut Street Theatre in Phila-
delphia. They were a happy, devoted.
hard-workiug, careful couple, always
travelling together, and, at the end of
each engagement, made square divI-
SION of proflts. so much so that when
Barney died her invested fortune of
$3.50 600 was just abOu: matched by The
two hundred and odd III, usBud dollars
left by her husband.