Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-23
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Ngv YORK, September q, 1898.
Theatrical people are growing about
Halaries. though i is lamen,ably true that
u great many Of them have at present no
salaries to growl about Tho "slave
market" as that portion OF Union Square
where actors most do congregate is call
al. was never so crowded. 1t is asserted
ty those who should know that wages
have not been lover for q long time.
The summer has been trying time
and the fall brings little hope. Ac-
tors who have played Hamlet acceptably
are getting along on ratiOns that would
not feed the Ghost. Two reasons are
cited for the hard times. One is the
perennial complaint that the profession
Is overcrowded the other alleges that
managers are becoming meaner every
year. In illustration of the latter the
anecdoie Of MIR. Harry Miners trip to
Newark is repeated He is said to have
offered the company fifty cents on dol
Jar of their salaries because OF bad
weeks business; and great was the In
tignation at such conduct.
NEW YORK THEATRES.
A fair measure OF success seems to be
enjoyed by the New York theatres. Cora
Tanner in "Fascination continues to
DO successful III spite of the much adj
vertIsed improbability of the play. Her
roles require the assumption of male at
tire. and her appearance in such dress
is the signal for vigorous applause.
The Hill Mather innarmonious combl-
nation which has been playing TO con-
siderable audiences IN the local courts
will make no money for either OF them.
The lawyers in the cast. however are re-
ported as doing very well.
THE BALTIMORE LADY ACTRESS.
HTho Tavmaster" at the Star this
week has not won tho favor Of the press.
Its leading attractions are tank ana Mrs.
O'SulIyan Dlmpfel of Baltimore. Neither
che lndy nor the tank was satisfactory,
lut the former was treated with much
less consideration than tho latter. The
verdict was Just. In ten women selected
Mt random there would almost certainly
lie nine better actresses than Mrs.
pimpfel and though her personal at
fractions are considerable they cannot
atone for hex complete lack OF the power
Of expression. Is is impossible 20 put It
more mildly. Neither her voice nor her
face reveals the slightest evidence Of
emotion from one end OF the piece to the
other. The Paymaster has very little
dramatic merit and debate on the
tariff could not DO more destitute OF
originality.
"whDDY CoOGAN."
Edward Harrigan has reached that
poins when success Is assured ID advance.
Ills latest play, Waddy Googan, Was
given isIut praise by the critics, most of
whom said that 10 could not attain long
Yun. Manager Hauley thinks different
". The piece draws eyer-increasing
crowds ana bids fair to run all winter
Mr.. Harrigan Is "A close student OF lie
and his success founded upon this basis
should be a greet encouragement to
youthful and honest playwryhts. lie Is
not a rigid realis;, but his burlesques
never distort the actual beyond an easy
Identification. IL tine writers Of more
serious drmnos would stddy as Mr.. Har
ligan does there would be fewer siultify-
ine melodramas full OF impossible emo
ton and virtues that do not deserve their
reward.
The KaGir Diamond" with Louis
Aldrich in the leading part Of Shoulders,
- meeting with continued success, and
win probably hold the boards for the full
ten weeks contemplated ut the stmt
Then Mr.. Aldrich VIII 60 upon the road
with ii, and his friends say that he viii
mako nearly as much money from 1t as
"My Partner yielded.
THEY DIE IN TIE STREET.
"How many fall dead in the street ?"
"Oh, II used 10 be no uncommon
thing to pick up seventy-fye or eighty
in the heat OF the day, but this summer
we have never found more than forty u
DAY and the average is below twenty
i've"
This remark WAS made by Mr. KEEL
mann, foreman OF the factory on Barren
Island, where dead horses and dogs are
carried every day by the boat-load to be
converted into gas. This new Arabia is
a narrow strip of sand just beyond the
dead sea that covers CanNsie flats and
within smelling distance OF COney Island.
Tho men who navigate these waters
have whiskors that seem to grow out OF
their noses. When this popularity is
referred TO they shake their heads
solemnly and point towards Barren
Island.
4 twenty fve-horse-powcr odor rein
forced by the interesting aroma of n
hundred and fifty stewed dogs rises out
of the caldrons and starts on ITS glad
career. 1T was with difficulty that I kept
my feet to walk from the boat landing TO
the factory.
AT HORSE HEAVEN.
When entered the foremans Office I
was gasping for breath. Embracing a
pillar | cast en- appealing glance at the
gentleman who stood at tail desk
making entries in ledger.
"Sick ?" l inquired with q tender
infection az soon / could get my breath.
"My God, do 1 look sick ?" he re-
piled, cycling me sharply and slapping
the convex surface of his stomach. To
tell the truth he was not slender. l was
about 10 apologize, when he continued {:
(" know what you arc going to say,
but tell you the place is healthy. We
nave udd lorBe force OF men Here lOI
years-never less than forty-fve-and
only one man has ever died on the
Island. He was slim chap who bad
consumption, contracted before he came
here"
/ was about to make another remark
when he broke in on me as follows
"No use, can't show you through
without o permit from the head Office
at Peck Slip" There was no trace
of sarcasm in his face. bad gone far
enough and was quite content to take his
word for everything l wished to know
concerning his factory.
DEATn RATE PER DAY.
SLOW many fall dead in the streets p"
ventured to ask. to which question he
made the response recorded at the be-
ginning of this article. "The heat kills
them fast. but more die in the winter
when the streets are slippery With SNOW
sometimes eighty or ninety day. IL is
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