Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-05
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NEW YORK, December 4, 1886.
Miss For,.scue, who has boon play
ing a quite successful engagement at
the Lyoeum Theatre, is not brilliant
actress. She failed in Gilberts
q" Gretchen but she has been nobly
supported in a social way by fashion,
able clone who have Jeted her and
hacked her private boxes. During her
season here the Lyceum Theatre has
been the swell house. Dress-coats and
even opera. cloaks have been the rule.
Paran Stevens, the dogager regnant,
set the example. and she pulled tho
whole train OF her set after her into
the Lyceum. Fortescue has had the
entyee Of the fashionable houses, and
has been seen on the avenue 10
The carts of some OF the wealthlest
Doyrenues. There ID no accounting
for this fsvoritism. The actress is ao in.
,elleent, rather comedy, slightly faded.
and by no means brillian. woman.
She has not been accepted by the pub
lie or the critics as a genius. but she
has had all the patronage that Get
large, powerful, ard exclusive can
confer.
At a supper given to her the other
night she made little speech, and l
believe it has been published double.
loaded in all the society journals. She
eas Immediately interviewed again by
the enterprisipg press, and two bril-
liant remarks of hers have sunk deep
into the breasts of the New Workers.
She said We didn't have circulating IL
brafies enough, and our street pave
ments were bad.
The late sam. Colville, theatrical
manager, started out through the rural
districts OF England few years ago
TO gather up some fresh rural beauties
for one of his shows that was going to
America, and he came across ravish-
ipely beautiful barmsid some where
down in Yorkshire. She was at the
tap. lie made a bid for her imme-
distely.
Law, measter," she said, " |
bean't no good, any how. at play
actin"
Sam. is said TO have patted her on
the back and replied
MY girl, in six months from to-
day III have the New York reporters
asking you what you think Of our form
of government. You've got dramatic
genius in your eyebrows"
THE LATEST DRAMATIC NOVELTY
is the &C, clone" at the Madison
Square Garden. Ordinary, and even
extraordinary, theatrical cyclones have
hitherto been illusions on the stage.
Trees we're bent down by wires aud
iointed houses fell to pieces AS ii struck
bv the wind. Real wind has nov been
used, and i; naturally creates breeze.
Four enormous ventilsting fans have
been secured that make about 10000
revolutions in a minute. They are
worked By fiity.borse power engine.
The consequence is the audience have
TO hold thtif hats on.
At the first rehearsal, when Rocky
Bear was Inadvertently blown into
Madison Park, and the ushers cluug
frightened to the arena posts with theic
.cost.tails futieriug like starry banners,
the manager, with a deep sigh, re-
marked, THANK heaven, that works
al right. Now | can take rest"
This blowing machine has draFn al
the managers in town, Mr.. Morris.
sey, the inventor Of the Abbot, kiss,
came all the way from St. Louis 70 see
it. Mr.. Coppleston, who was blown
over to this country from England in
advance of Henry Barrett, has written
a puff Of it, in which he says it "sup-
plies long felt want" aud even Hen.
ry George and Bob IugersOll have had
drawings made Of it. On all hauds 1t
is pronounced a great theatrical ds-
sideratum.
MEN WHO GET LARGE SALARIES.
In this capital of big salaries the
general impression is that the men whO
receive The largest sums do very
little work in return. This view is
doubtless shared by their ofli;e-boys
and Wallets, who sec themselves doing
ten times as much physical labor al
their employers, and draw socili5tic
conclusions from the comparison. The
truth is, that while all these weil-plit
officials get their salaries mainly for the
exercise Of their judgment, some are nat
ural hard and w0rrisome workers, and
some carry the worries Of their places
as indinerently as a ducks back takes
water. If jay Gould got any salary az
all, should say that he earned 1t the
most easily Of any man in town. He is
the ptrsoni6catiOn Of easy.going, and
never loses his temper ard his head.
lie treats his head through the medium
Of hIs stomach by living very plainly
in fact, he commits no excuses in any
direction except mouey-making. He
has himself under perfect control. Tie
is as methodical as machine-goes TO
BED at such an hour, gets up at such an
hour, and spends just so many hours
at hIs office. Naturally, everybody who
works with him or for him likes him.
But neither as president of the Man
haitian Elevated nor Of the Gould sys-
tenn does be take any salary. If he
gets his s. for each attendance at q
meeting OF the Western Union directory
it is because the money is sent to him.
The man who earns large salary the
most easily is another easy-going rail-
road msn-president Chauncey NJ. De.
pew, Of the New York Central. He is
variously credited with from s25 900
TO $4,000 year. lie may work far
into the night, and unquestionably has
done SO sgain and again, but be always
appears to be at his ease, even when he
is explaining that he can't do some
thing be is asked to because he has four
other things to do at that time. Unlike
President Cleveland, he pays no stten.
ton to details. His subordinates stew
over them, and come to him for a word
of final decision when they have reached
the end Of their responsibilities.
HOW HE WORKS FOR $4,000.
The man who earns 100000 the
hardest of any man know is . cele-
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