Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-05
THEATRICAL GOLD BUGS
Actors and Actresses Who Are
Plllng Up Huge Fort.
unes.
Mary Anderson, Booth. Lolita. jefferson
and Maggie Mitchell. and where
They Put Their Money.
New YorE Mnrnlng Ionrnal.


Though threo-quarters OF our actors
aud actresses complain about the hard
times, they made no such money In the
old days as they do now. There are three
or four actors on the American stage
who possess fortunes and make money
at a rate that would satisfy almost any
body.
Take MISS Mary Anderson, for IN
stance. There are very few tinanciers of
Wall street who would not be perfectly
pleased to know that they could make in
d season OF eight months $4,000, and
keep Il. That will be the Income the
present year of Miss Mary Anderson, who
is now computed TO be worth 100000,
which is safely invested in real estate, gas
stock and railway shares both here and
in England, only small portion OF II be-
rug invested in government bonds.
Mr. Edwin Booth went into bankrupt
cy about two years after he gave up his
| theater on Twenty third street and Sixth
| avenue, which is now turned into stores.
That was about 1877 yet he Is now com
puted to be worth IN clean cash about
| $3.50, 600 lie has made contract for
next year which will turn him in net
sum OF 81 900 for about seven months'
work
Mr. Joseph Jefferson il also one OF the
wealthiest of actors. He Is not making so
much money now as he used to earn, for
the simple reason that he does not give
himself the trouble. He only works about
sixteen weeks of the year upon the stage
and this assures him all he
needs for his yearly maintenance
without impairing in the least his
capital. Mr.. Jefferson's fortune Is vari-
ously estimated at from $500, 600 TO $500.
: geo. IL is true that ever since he began
to earn money rapidly he has consented
TO support large number OF relatives
7 He does this Observation-Disclosures IN
! fact, mentioning the matter himself, ye'
) IL Is fact well known In the dramatic
profe ssion
I Among the actresses Charlotte Grab
I tree, better known on the stage as Lolita
is undoubtedly the wealthiest women II
the world who follows the profession
I the stage Most of the money Is hello II
, the name of her mother, who has beer
her manager ever since she iifstappeefee',
/. MS n little girl in variety theater in Call
= fornia. They are not far wrong who esti
: mate I.otta's possessions at good dea
! over million dollars. Year after yea
! She has earned from $4,000 to $4,000.
Her manner of living is asa rule frugal
and she has sustained only one loss o
any consequence, and that was abou
:, $40, 600 few years ago, when a youni
y man to whom she was engaged 10 d.
II married specialized with that amount o
= money. Though her powers OF earniDi
J have largely decreased, she is stun goo
u for about $4,000 year.
y Maggie Mitchell Is one OF our wealth
actresses. She is computed to be wort
/, $3.50. 900 In cash, besides which she ha
: large possessions in land at Long Branc
= and along the Jersey coast in Just the pc
= sitions going up in price with such SUI
:. prising rapidity.
! II is only ten years ago that she wa
!, compelled TO sacrifice no small portion
' these long rents possessions through tor'
closed mortgages. She had placed a
" her earnings in land, and during the pan
y became property poor, for, as usual
= happens, her earnings as AN actress
ic thar very period decreased materially
she is now, however, more prospero'
~ than ever before in her life.
- The wealthiest among our managers
" undoubtedly John Stetson, who owns
ie large printing Office in Boston, week
W naper that gives him a net income
" $1,000 week, and theatrical busine
~ that Is almost invariably profitable N
Stetson is not worth far from Sl,o00,0O
~ though his income is much in excess
~ what that amount of capital would prin
er The only other manager who runs HI
" close is MIR. McYicker OF Chicago, U
g nestor Of the American stage, and WI
W has made every dollar he owns throuI
=, the dramatic profession. lie IS u
nn father-in.law OF Edwin Booth.
~ Another wealthy manager, VINO pa
" very little attention, however, 10 the ~
atrical business at present, IS MI: opaui
-, Ing. of st. Louis, another mllllohaire
"a bnt he was left 1t all IN ~. LOUIS y
l,n estate by his father, the proprietor VI
~ circus In the olden days Inc oiu ZEN.
nd man lnNess'a ~ ~ ne Son came into
=, ,yhen Il had vastly appreciated.