St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-20
JEWS IN THEATRICALS
What & Member of the SaIgini
Company Has to
Say.
Assertions OF the Detroit
News Are Away
Off.
A List of Prominent Actors,
Their Birthplaees and Ma
tiOnalities.
A Talk With a Well-Posted
A Talk With a Well-Posted
Actor of Forty Years
Experience.


as those sensational things usually are"
said a member of Salvini's company
yesterday in the GLOBE office, land was
probably written by Jew. It's won
der that after claiming all the great
artists he didn't ring in Herr Posart.
Coquelin. or SalYini. OF the names
mentioned in the Detroit paper,
Lester Wallack was of English de-
scent, his father, James w. ST.,
being born in London in 1894. and he
was born Jan. l, 1919, in New York city.
Edwin Booths mother was of Jewish
descent His father. Junius Brutus, was
English, and born near London in 1896.
The son Edwin. Americas great actor,
was born at Blair, near Baltimore, III
November. 1898. With such a pedigree,
If his ancestors were any other nation
atty. he would be called an American,
but because his mother was OF Jewish
descent and his father English, Edwin
is a jew, although born in America.
Then there's Rose Etyinge. who was
born in Philadelphia in September,
1898. and LoUis Aldrich, born ia Ohio
oct /, 1913, and Patti, as pure Spsif-
lard as ever iived-aIl Jews. Both
PATHS mother and father were Spanish,
her mothers name being Nine Raridi
Patti. aud she was Tor many years Il
prima donna at the Grand taeater in
Madrid. AGelina was born in Madrid
April 9. 1913, came to America III 1874,
and remained here constantly aTtil 1861.
But this doesn't cut any figure. If her
ancestors had lived in 'ftwangy
Maine" for Thousand years. if
she became the foremost .pEima donna
of the world, she would probably be
Jew Although he looks like it, Louis
! MOrriS0u Is no more jew than | am.
There is 800 question that there are Il
great many Jews i'll the theatrical bust
ness. bat because Il man is a great. actor
or manager it doesn't necessarily fol-
I low he must be Jew. Where does A.
NJ. Palmer, Henry L. Abbey. Horace
McNickeT, Richard NJ. H00ley. j. NJ.
Hill, MaplestOn. L. ii. FreRel, ami by
far the larger majority OF such man
ayers. cOiaae in? No one certainly has
the audacity to call them Jews. 1t is
true that
MOST OF THE CALIFORNIA TIHEADERS
are managed by Hebrews, alsd SO are
all OF the dramatic agencies III New
! York with the exception of W. w. Ran
daFs and ole or two others. &Et then
there are Only about six or seven agen-
CITES there. But the News WRITER says
70 per cent of our best actors and &C
tr3SSeS are TeGpie without 4 6Guntry,
Well. suppose we name over some gust
as we happen to think OF them aud then
class them and see how many are Jews.
7 You write the names down as L call
! dhem off: Edwin Booth. J0-
aeph JetferSan, John Aei5al-
laugh. Thomas Keene, Lawrence
Barrett, john II. SlOddard, Mckee
Rynkin, Dion B0Reicault. Jonn E Qw
eu&. c. W. COudO> *. Fred Ward, JOnn
I. Raymond. w. II. Crane, Stuart ROO-
son. Louis James, Jain Gilbert, James
O'NeiI, Barney Williams. Charles r.
ThOFHp Jr., Dan Bryant, Z. l.. Davem-
port. William Warren. L. a. Sothern.
William Z. Burton, Mr.. and Mrs. kem-
bic. Edwin Forrest. Charles Wheatleigh,
John Dregg. Il. b. Manteli. f. +. Mac
kay, j. W. Albaugh. +. G. Bangs. W.
j. Ferguson. E. J. Buckley, Thomas
fFhffeu. Barney McCauley, Ed Collier,
Florence, Frank Mayo, Steele Mae
kaye. Neil BURGESS. William Davidge.
Frank Mordaunt. Herpert Kelley,
Nat Goodwin, Richard Mansfield,
Fred Brytun, Sol Smith Russell. Henry
DiXey. Digby Bell, Francis Wilson. DE
Wolf Hopper. Edward Harrigan. Frank
Daniels. w. j. Seaman. Charles ii.
HOyt. Here we have list Of almost
every one who have been prominent in
theatrical matters for the last fifty
yea rs, at least all one can think of in
an off-hand manner.
READ THE NAMES OVER AGAIN
and perhaps you will almost be sur
priSed TO see the scarcity of ISraelites
and the many of Irish descent. This
doesn't look as though the Jews con-
trolled the theatrical profession. does it?
Now We'll take the actresses who are
prominent IN this country Or have been.
Write down the names of Chat.ntte
Cushman. Mary Anderson, Clara Nor
ris, Jetfries Lewis, Helena Modjeska.
Nine. Jarauschek. Rhea. Lolita, Min
ME Palmer, Rose C0ghlan, Annie Pix
lev, Fanny Davenport. Margaret
Mather. Ada Rehan. Lilly Langtry.
Mrs. James Brown Potter. Fife ElIsler,
Marie Wainwright, Maggie Mitchell
Kate Forsythe. Mrs. Florence, Charlotte
Thompson, Marion ManOla. Marie Pres
colt. Carrie Turner, Lillian Russell,
Fanny Rice, Mrs. Drew. Nellie Nc
Henry, George Cayyan, ANNE r lssel,
Louise Dillon, Maude Granger, Gene
We've Ward, Jennie Yeamans, Pauline
Hall. Ellen Ferry. Kate Castleton,
Mrs. Gilbert. Kate ClaXton, Cora Tan
ner. There isn't four ladies in the
whole list of Jewish descent even. Still
they are largely in the majority. Who
are they? Take the circus managers or
employees: z. T. Barnum. Adam Fore
paugh, J. A. Bailey, w. w. Cole. Sells
Bros, w. G. Coup, Frank Melville the
rider, James Robinson, Frank Gardiner,
Fish, Livingston Bros. Take the
old clowns-Gus Lee, John Dav-
export, Marks, j. K. Wallet,
Dan Rice, Jerry Hopper, Gossom,
CHARLES Abbott. Il. L. Fox. johnny Pat
terson. and many others. There is not
one single Jew among them. There are
probably more Jews on the Operatic
stage than any where else. but even
then Spanish, Italians and French pre-
dominate. Albani's lame is Lajeu-
neSse. she was born at Plattsburg
n, Y. and her parents are
French Canadians. Every one knows
Emma Abbott was born III Chicago,
DeLuSsan is French, Campahini
was born in Parma, Italy, in 1916, Ga
laSSi was born i'll Loreto. Spain; Minnie
Hauk was born in New Orleans. Louise
Kellogg was bora at Hunterville, s. c.:
Christine Nilsson in IuS5aly, Sweden.
ana so one perfectly acquainted with
the facts could go on down the entire
list and find the Jews rather scarce
than IS per cent in tire majority. With
Tue exception Ol liulilDef OI advance
agents. the Frohmans, the Haymans
and q few others. the Jews
ARE STILL G REATLY IN THE MINORITY.
The Detroit News article says: just
about all the managers and advance
agents are Jews Where do those
above named come in? One would
think that A. M. Palmer. T. Henry
French, J. Nj. Hill. or McVicker wouldn't
count. They are the representative
managers of America. The writer in
the Detroit paper deliberately sits
down and picks out Klaw s. Erlinger,
Harry Mann, IL. r. Jacobs, NJ. B. Curtis,
Aronson, etc. Are they as representative
managers. taken as 4 whole, as the names
III the list just above? Well, | should
say not And how FleiSchman. Ham
merstein. WollenritZ or Harris has be-
come prominent as compared to that list