The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-09
WAITING FOR ACTRESSES.
Chat with a Manager About the
Chaps Who Hang Around Stage
Entrances.

relates to the presence of bold, wicked,
and wealthy men around the stage door
of the theatre after the performance is
over. II is generally and, in fact, almost
universally believed that there are men
about-toWn and club men of New York
who devote large amount of internal
ingenuity and almost Emitless wealth to
the task of Juggling pretty actresses off
o supper after the theatre is over. 1t
true that thoughtful men have re-
marked the fact that actresses are sell
dom seen at popular restaurants after
the play, and that stories which club
men tell Of their conquest in this direc-
ton are often absurd and improbable.
In the course of the writer's experience
he has been continually surprised by
{ ne absence of these traditional society
villains about the stage doors of New
York theatres. In talking with a we'll
known manager on the subject, whose
theatre IS in the vicinity of Broadway
and Thirtieth Street, and who has had
experience of theatrical life in New York
the following facts. were brought to
light.
"About So months ago, he said, there
WAS Il play prOuuvc,4 y = city theatre
here ia which a young actress, who has
she reputation of being the idol among
the dudes, took the leading part. She
is girl who came from tn West origin
ally, and she has won a good place on
the stage by her hard work. I don't |
mind telling you that the play l speak
- o. no
The girl unqueStiOnably had the leading |
part III the piece and she played it well. |
During the performance she received |
three bouquets across the foOthghtS, |
and after the curtain had dropped for |
the last time | went to the rear of the /
house TO congratulate her upon her per
fOFnance, as l mad been in measure /
responsible for her appearance in New |
York. The dressing rooms in the Star /
Theatre are down a steep fight of steps |
and when / went On.the stage l ObServ- /
ed somebody climb up these steps |.
hurriedly, trip across the stage, say good |
night Z" the door man, and disappear |
Il I4Oment later | spoke to one of the /
actors and asked him where the girl /
was He said he didn't know. l went /
down 20 her dressing room and fOnnd /
that she had gone. Then 1 hurried up /
stairs and the door man told me that ii |
was she that had gone out as ! entered.
/ hurried up Fourteenth Street, and I
then I saw her speeding down towards /
Fifth Avenue with her cloak tightly !.
drawn around her and her head bent !
down. She was hurrying along at /
terrific rate. You may have observed, " (.
CHANGING down at a cOpiOuS display of
white waistcoat, that I am gaining
somewhat in tiesh-in fact / have been /
gaining somewhat for the last twentT
years = but I buckled in and started /
after her at full tilt. ! don't know when |
/ had 4 brislzer run than that was. and I
what made it particularly impressive
WAS that all the sidewalk actors on Union
Square saw the performance. l caught
her finally near Sixth Avenue, and when
! came putting up she turned around,
first looked frightened and then pleased.
''@YOu're never going home alOneY |
s aid.
~"Why not?' she asked.
s''it'S hardly the cheerful thing after
making d hit as you did tonight Come
IN here and eat an oyster while | rest
and get nay breath"
We went into one of the numerous
oyster saloons there and she ate heart
ily- She was evidently in the best of
spirits, and she seemed to think it was
her home after her nights work The
girls picture sells all over New York,
her face adOrnS the mirror in many
young mans room, and she has the
reputation OF being jolly, wide awake,
and even bit fast. ] had a long talk
with her that night, and the converse
ton turned upon this very subject. She
told me that she had only been taken
out 70 supper four times after the play
that year, and in every case it was by
an old friend. She told me the truth, l
know, for she had no reason to conceal
anything from me, and she was not at
all pjaintive about it. She laughed a
good deal when she recalled her school
girl dreams of an actresses life, of how
she would roll to the theatre in her own
brOugham, and afterwards sup at Del
XpORicO' s, the centre of attraction, and
the envy of all the women in the place.
Nov she said, L always have cold
luncheon laid out for me at home, and
/ eat 1t before 1 go to bed. Soon as L
get up IL IS time to go rehearsal, and
after rehearsal it is all [ can do to get
through my affairs in time to get to the
theatre. If | marry any one within
the next FIVE years, it viii be theatre
cal man who can manage me and take
care OF my business interests. I've no
~ NC bOlLCA-liS With AChG-SACh
dudes.
Is her case any criterion2''
Eyes, think tits, though think she
has more sense than the ran of the
young women on the stage. There are
to-day in New York exactly two men
who have the reputation OF running
after actresses and spending wealth upon
fheBa. One of them is big, good
hearted and good-natured member of
tbe Union Club, who lives like king
and spend thirty or forty thousand a
year, and The other Is a son OF Il Wall
street broker, who wears eyeglasses, has
pHdgy face, and an immense desire to
have his name associated with some
pre5ty actress on the comic opera stage.
These two men are actually the only
FOUNDERS whom we know, and we would
naturally know them all. You see,
there Is practically no green room on
the American stage, by which I mean
there is no such green room as you find
IN Paris or London, where friends of the
managers may cOngregate during the
play and chat with the women of the
stage. The American managers are
very particular about this, and it is the
most difficult thing in the world for
Flan who has no business there TO get
on 3 well-ordered New York stage.
There are, of course, one or two actresses