The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-28
THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER
He Makes Life q Burden to The
atrical Managers.

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greatest evils We have to contend
WITH" said a well-krown theatricsl
/ manager, the other day, sis the per
sonal jealousy of leading women"
He has been connected with stage
and general dramatic management fol
number of years, and ought to know
whereof he speaks.
1T may seem a small thing to you,
geotlemeu, but ask any stage mana
ger, dealing only with the details OF
the nightly production of play. In-
quire of any general manager who
gets the necessary people together
and must keep them together in order
to produce The play eHectively-aud
then of the men who have their money
up, the playwright, the owners, the
hackers of the enterprise, and whose
present financial prosperity and future
reputation depend upon the success of
the piece and the seas n. OF all the
creatures God ever created, the sweet.
est and best is woman, and i'm the dra-
matte profession she is the most diff.
cult to deal with. Everybody, or
nearly everybody, knows how it taxes
human patience and ingenuity to
manage one woman satisfactorily. No
body but a dramatic m nsger, and
perhaps Mprmon, eau estimate Bp-
proximately the full extent and scope
Ut a contract embracing q dozen or
more of women. But the man with
one wife who is unmantgeab'e can, at
least, put on his hat and coat and go
to bis club or remain at home and let
her manage him, while the Mormon
husband can let his plural family fight
it out among themselves. The pro-
fessional manager, however, must
manage.
WORRIES THEM ALL.
Jealousy. jealousy -personal jeal-
ousyl 1t is the green-eyed monster
that eats into the femenine soul and
worries the managerial spirit, and
very often causes the collapse of plays
and pocketbooks. The greatest artists
who ever trod the boards are rot free
from its csnkerous and raj nkerous
influences. Among the smaller ~
it RACES like fire between decks in a
co,ton-laden ship. 1t may not burn
the vessel up, but it must be fought
inch by inch and hour by hour. tooth
and nail, to prevent such a catastro-
phe. The decks may be so hot we
can scarcely stand on them, but the
rest OF the world know nothing about
it.
"These women are ambitious, and
vanity and tAlent 60 hand in hand.
Very often they know nothing of each
other personally until the first r1h4ar.
sais. The poor, simple fool who writes
a play is Ike the architect who builds
q hotel and fails to make all of his
rooms front rooms and the best ID the
house; he ass; mbles his characters
around one or two leading figures and
makes them incidental feeders to the
general plot. Whec be thinks he is
doing clever thing by getting everal
characters on nearly the same plane
,fimportance he lights torch that is |
nextinguishable. These vain, ambi
.ious and oft:u shallow mortals WHO
Ire assigned those parts then have
more reason for their jealousy. The |
of one is usually gall aud |
norwood 10 the rest. An
encore, a recall, and, beyond all else,
md Interpolation that tends to this
hing styled a hit is enough to food
he wings with better tears.
WHY SHE CRIED.
II have actually witnessed an &C
ress cry with vexation because she
nuld not be placed on the stage as
d. geously as rival, and another
The re- On that the entrance pre-
crihe" ant suit her. Then, every
Ton IN thiuks she could play her n
as part better than it is being
'lsyed. As for her lines, / have yet
o meet single actress who believes
ne can't improve them, and it is a
onstsnt fight to prevent her making
he attempt in spite of strict rules Of
"When yon are occasionally walked
p in the night to get kilograms from
our company like this you'll under
land what nettles beset the path of
he general manager. q
"OsHKosH, Wis, 9.P.M. 10
"Miss McBeth refused to 20 on tonight I
Mess Miss Ingenue quits the company. @
esce patched up temporarily. Big house. 9
SMITH. I
"Now, with thousands of dollars ..
angling on a capricious woman's tenn
er things like this are constantly d