Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-04-12
ABOUT THEATERS.
LONG VACATIONS ARE NOW IN SIGHT FOR
TIE ACTORS,
And They Do Not Relish It, Because Pay Day
StOps-A Kicker Of Memory-BrOugham's Plays
Revived The BOoth-Barrett Profits Not
So Large as Imagined.

New YORK, April 11.-Long vaca-
tionS are in sight for many an actor.
Holidays are not to the players liking
for obvious reasons, chief OF which is
the cessation of salary day. But the
spring signs plainly foretell early clos
ures of many tours, and before May
there will be several thousand unem-
ployed Thespians in the city. "a Tin
Soldier" one of Hoyt's pieces, ended it's
travels few days ago. Annie Ward
Tiffany will stop rather short after next
week. Marie Wainwright will close be-
fore April ends. Feming's "Around
the World in Eighty Days" troupe re-
turns to the city tomorrow TO rest. "
The company that has been playing
The Old Homestead" will come in very
late in May. "a fair Rebel" which
was christened at the Star last season,
will desert the circuit next week, and a
week later Taylor's "Aunt Jack" com
pany will close.
Nearly everybody will recall Sara, the
great kicker, who astonished the vaude-
villeS in this country four or five years
ago. She was long-limbed jolly-faced
English woman, with a style of dancing
that was all her own. 1t was audacious
without being indecent, and artists al
fected to believe that it was admirable,
but in those days the variety dancer was
not so easily exploited into Bowery ac-
ceptance, and Sara had TO content her
self with less fashionable but not less
sincere plauditS. She made great deal
of money here, for even in the vaude-
yilleS she would not work for less than
$50 a week. Now she is a wife in Lon
don. She has just welded Charles
Slater, wealthy iron merchant; but
she declares that she twill not retire
| from the stage"
As a favorable sign of a not improb-
able revival of John Brougham's plays,
! il is noticed that William Redmund has
recentlr produced BrOugham's Playing
With Fire" and has been successful
with it, Redmund has rewritten the
| bright comedy and has called il "A
Sure Cure for the Blues" In Boston IL
| has delighted It's audience, and some OF
the critics are limiting that others Of
Brougham'S works will stand revision
and revival. The only other recent
novelty out OF town has been comic
opera called Influence; or The Course
Of True Love Never Did Run Smooth. "
1t has been tried in New Haven and
Pittsburg with a New York company,
but the verdict is not entirely favor
able
The Booth-Barrett profits, it is pretty
well understood, were not so large pro-
portionately as Mr.. Barrett had counted
upon, and probably the season closed
with a considerable decrease in the
earnings as r1mpared with last years.
The long enlargement at the Broadway
was powerful factor in the result.
Barrett rented the house for three
months, paying about 81, $50 week for
It's use, and for eight weeks, while he
played alone, the receipts were much
less than he had right to expect
Booths temperance, of course, drew
much more money, but the twelve
weeks did not average very large
profits. The single star, after
Bernhardt, who has grown rich
this season seems to be
Francis Wilson. That joyous young
clown has developed great drawing
mower out OF town. He has had the dis
tinction of visiting cities like Philadel-
phia, Boston, and Brooklyn, where All
the seats for his engagement were sold
before he appeared. and unless experts
are far astray in their calculations, he
will clear over SO, 900 this season, He
TOO. has unpleasant memories OF too
long stay in New York, at tOo-high
rental, and his engagement here this
year will be omparatively brief. There
are a dozen other stars known to
have no cause for complaint about
this seasons profits, though 1t has
not been conspicuously good
season, at that. Fanny Davenport has
made considerable money, both before
and after the burning of her Cleo
patra" outfit. Neil Burgess's long term
in the Union Square Melted to him
handsome sum. w. Ii. Crane Is known
10 stand well ahead with "The Sena-
tor" although it's New York earnings
were better than those out OF town
The Kendals, of course, figure promi-
nently in the list OF money makers. In
farce, Nat Goodwin, James I. Powers,
and the Hoyt pieces have been very
profitable. The Jefferson-Florence com
bination have maintained the triumph
of previous tours.
Billy Birch is not to disappear from
the stage, after all. A shrewd manager
has discovered new use for the
stranded minstrel. who will henceforth
be IA conventional travelling Legitimate"
actor. The thoughtful manager is the
volatile John X. Rogers. He is getting
together 4 company to play My Sweet
heart" with clipper and plump Annie
Lewis to fill Minnie Palmer'S place. and
Birch is going TO prrSonate the aged ne
gro in the farce H. will draw good
wages, and perhaps will earn them. Al
any rate. there's little magnetism left
in the old mans name, aud probably
Rogers hasn't lost sight OF that fact.
Birch'S most effective drollery as min
strel was i'm his confidential talks with
his auditors. The haoit is strong with
him to this day. aud the stage manager
NAV have trouble with the end man IN
consequence.
When Comedian john A. Mackay
died recently in Cincinnati. OF pneu-
monia. his aged mother in Brookiyu was
left In cramped circumstances hnan-
cially. The Dramatic Mars "a week ago
suggested benefit as particularly a.-
propriate. inasmuch as Mr.. Mac6ay ir
| lie had never failed TO act, when
asked. for the help OF actors Jess for
ruuate than himself The response to
! this sug- rstiou was immediate and gen
cral. and the performance vii. be- e vr"
on the afternoon OF Apal T.. Henry f..
Dvcy aud his company. Nlt. G. Good
win aud his supporting players. james
+. Powers aud the ..Sirt!-h, TIP Com
panv. Edward U4rrigau aud isorrah'-
l,-i1n. Gus Williams. John Il k-I'y.
and tgc III ana T. comb.nl,i1n. kl~.na
goNr>. Lillian Russell. Frederic Brv-
/ nu. Harry Kernel. and Others well
Known have written that they Will ap.
uDlr. and 10 seems certain that Tong
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