The morning call., 1890-10-26

n ! \ have to contend with" said a
t Awel-known theatrical manager
\ rJtha other day, "is the personal
" ! ! jealousy of leading women"
W He has been connected with
stage and general dramatic management Tor
a number of years, and ought to know
whereof be speaks, writes Charles L. Muir
raw from New York to the Pittsburg Dis
patch.
ut may seem like small thing to you,
gentlemen, bus ask any stage manager,
dealing only with the details of the nightly
production Of play. Inquire of any gen.
eral manager who gets the necessary people
together, and must keep them together in
order 10 produce the play effectiyely-and
then Of the men who have their money up,
the playwright, the owners, the hackers OF
the enterprise whose present financial
prosperity aid future reputation depend
upon the success Of the piece ard the season.
OF all the creatures God ever created The
sweetest and best is woman, and III the dsa-
matte profession she is the most difficult to
deal with. Everybody, or nearly every
body, knows how ii taxes human patience
and ingenuity to manage one woman salts
{ ctorily. Nobody but a dramatic man
aser, and perhaps mormon, can estimate
approximately the full extent and scope Of
. contract embracing a duzen or more OF
women
Jealousy, jPalousy-personal jealousy !!
The greatest artists who ever tTod tue
boards are not free from its caHkerous and
lantankerous influences. Among the
smaller fry
IT RACES LIKE A FIRE
b tween the decks I'M eottou-llden ship.
Il may not bum the vessel ~, but IL must
be fought inch by inrh, and hour by hour,
tooth and nail, TO prevent such catlStro-
pbe. The decks may be so hot We can
scarcely stand on them, but the rest of the
word knows nothing about 1t.
The poor simple fool who writes play
is like the architect who builds a hotel and
fails TO make all Of his 70 ms front rooms
and the D-st in the house. When he thinks
he is doing clever thing by getting several
characters on nearly the same plane Of I'M
pOTlance, lie lights a torch that Is ineXtIn-
guishaDle. The popularity of one is usually
ga and wormw0od TO the rest. An encore,
a recall, and beyond all else, an interpnla-
ton that tends to this thing styled lit, is
encugh to food the wings with bitter tears.
l nave actually witnessed IN actress cry
with VeXatiOu because she could not be
place on the stage as GdyantageOuSly as a
.lTa ami anOthe: for The reason that the
entrance prescribed didn't suit her.
" hen GU are occasionally walked up in
y
pany Ike this you'll understand what net
Ties beSet tie path OF the general manager
OSHKOSH WIS.,, . NJ.
Miss MeBeth refused 10 20 on Tonight unless
MISS InGeuue qutS tile company. Peace patched
up temporarily. Big house. SMITH.
Now. with thousands of dollars hanging
On a caprlcIOuS oman temper, things like
this are constantly occurring. That is Why
yuu'll see nobody but gray-laired men in
this business; it turns gray the first season.
And this is
THE REAL EXPLANATION
OF many dramatic failure. The company
doesn't pull together. Men and women
may be excellent actors and actresses in
their respective roles, but they can't pro-
duce a piece successfully night after night
hating and sneering at each other"
This will remind those who are familiar
with the inside workings of the profession
OF the general JealuuSles Of noted actresses.
There Is Lolita and Minnie Palmer, for in
stance, 10 mention more recent and partcu-
lar circumstances. Minnie Palmer has been
exceptionally well handled of late years.
Lolita has not had such good fortune. They
are rivals because they attract the same
class of theateT-gOers.
And there is Pauline Hall and Isabella
Urquhart. They hate each other sincerely.
Fine natural jealousy OF two handsome
women, whose chief claim TO public ap-
pGOyal lies in a lovely figure and eXquisitely
MCu6ltu features, easily lOuHu al open
rupture at the Casino during the run of
'Erminie" in a dreSsmaker episode in
which a well-knOwn newspaper man fig
Urtd Tie dTessmaker is probably the only
person WHO coined the quarrel into dollars
Marie HaitOn's first fuss was with a
pretty chorus girl; then she grew jealous of
a leading lady singer who got the applause,
and y no. in all fairness, is the better singer,
the two almost coming TO actual blows and
'haiE-pu Ing one evening in the middle OF
the Performance Marie Burroughs and
Annie Russell involved the whole manage
nIrnt of TIE Matison-sQuare in row. 1t
was ali because Mr.. PreSbery, husband of
Russell, wouldn't place the fair Burroughs
ON tine center of the stage IN one OF the plays
rrceAty produced there.
EVERY STAGE
Ought to have at least two OF three centers
frum which these fOOt-light beauties could
strike tie audience in the most favorable
way.
Ada Rehan is not only handsome woman.
but good actress, but she is consumed with
envy al rivals success. Rehan at various
lines has been jealous at Edith Kingdom,
because tile Paris critics praised the latter
more than tie artistic Ada; or Henrietta
6rossman last season, because some critics
said Ciossman played a certain part letter
tnan Rriian. 1t was probably the critics
fault. Why will they draw these Odious
conn aTl>ons
Coming down from leading women of the
legitimate to common, y-day farce-com-
edy, it may safely be alleged, generally, that
tvery suubretie is Jealous oil every other
s0ubrette no takes the shine out OF her in
any particular.
Flora Walsh, wife of Charles Hoyt, will
never tolerate any other brilliant or even
clever woman in the same company.
Flora Moore, who was the leading SOU
brette Gf Lew RUsen's new piece became so
ms oil i..alo nf nII ia
tier and younger member of the company,
that + ora or the company had to come back
TO New IOrK. The managers compromised
On Fl0ra's departure, but not until there
was square knock-down in the dressing
room.
But this is so common among women of
The profession that names might be multi
plea indefinitely. The only real satisfactory
way would seem to be for each woman to
have her own company and be her own star.