The evening world., 1894-08-22
THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 70: 1894
STAGE NEWS AND NOTES.
An Agent Said to Be Lending
Money at High Interest.
elsie Affair, the Dancer, Is IL
Yokohama.

awakened on the Rialto, by the discov
| cry that Il dramatic agent. who engagei
the people for theatrical firm that |!
to send out eleven companies this sea
son, hars been fattening on the mlsera
bile condition OF actors this year, by lend
ing money at u scandlously usurious rate
4 Of interest. The agent has an office not
| far from Thirty-third street and Sixth
/ avenue. In the same building as the
| aforesaid firm, and his business is con.
Quoted openly, for there Is "A sign on
the door bearing the legend, Money lent
on good security" An actor was en-
gagged as leading man for one OF the
firms companies. He was hard up. He
wanted money to buy wardrobe. He had
been with the firm last season and had
borrowed money from them for his wife
at the low rate of % per cent. This week
he wanted $50 He went to the agent,
and offered to give him hish note for 500
for the loan OF So. The agent declared
that money was worth more now. lie
would loan $50 IN return for the actor's
note for SIS, and per cent. for three
months in addition. &c actor was in
dignant. The money was to be deducted
from his salary as soon as the season
began. ITS bunco game he told the
agent, and 1 refuse to join the com
pany." There was a row, and one OF the
inembers OF the firm heard 1t. He sent
for the actor, and asked him wnat he
meant by mis- Delligerent behavior. When
he saw that the young man was in
earnest he himself adm tel that the rate
OF interest WAS rather niSn. The actor,
however. refused to he pacified, and de-
clared that he would sooner break stones
IN an work for such "A firm. one actor
secured a loan on his household furni-
ture, valued at 5000; another borrowed
S35 and had to give hish note for So
unfortunate
known, but the desperate condition OF
things this Summer had brought them
into the clutches OF thus agent. Every
the AFFAIR yesterday. The rate of interest
demanded in one case, was 2iO per cent.
per year.
Elsie Adai" the little serpentine
dancer who use1 to turn fiip-faps at
the roof gardens, Is now dancing around
the world. Manager Proctor received a
July 49, She is with her husband, Wal
ter Nanderlip, and SPECIALITY company
OF eleven American specially per-
formers, and she Is beginning with ia
pany stopped at Honolulu, she says,
and drew II packed house. Among the
specially performers are Fanny Lid
diard. James Boyer, Dan Kelly, Senorita
Dolores, bessie Grey, Edith Holmes, AL
fred James, George Butler and Walter
Mitchell.
Rose Coghlan is doing Saratoga all by
herself, and her hubby Is rehearsing the
negotiating with Robert Hilliard for her
support this season, but the ticklish
uestion OF terms has not yet been ad-
justed. MIR. Hilliard values himself very
highly, and that Is the only way to get
on In the theatrical profession. He is
not one of the actors who says my
salary Is Si5 per week. but I'll take SIS.
The littl" Barrison sisters ale working
hard for European endorsement"
The A lhambra In London. proved to be
somewhat disas, rous, and now they have
been dragged to Les Ambas sadeurs in
Paris. In New York their great aim in
life appeared to be to parade Broadway
with chaperon, attired in startling
clothes, and seeming unconscious of the
fact that everybody stared at them.
An American actor who played this
Summer IN London met there good
many OF his fellow-countrymen under
very diAagreeable circumstances There
IL an impression among actors" he said
that 1t is possible to live very cheaply
In London, and while doing the cheap
tise as well. While / was abroad
number OF American actors were
stranded I'm Europe, and their distress
was very great. They used TO haunt the
lay the members of Days company, and
they were altogether IN a had way. 1t is
not possible to live. cheaply In London
unless one knows the ropes, and to no
there frlendleas md unknown is alto
sether absurd"
Joseph Jefferson will not act in New
York at all this season. He says that
he Is determined to give the metropolis a
rest. Mr.. jefferson did excellent bust
hIIt he he
INDUCED to return for some time. He
viii play through the country, opeing his
season In Chicago In October.
W; ~, Morton. Miss Lily Posts hus-
band. Is getting worse, and Miss Post
expects to hear of his death at any time
t has been a readful blow to me-" she
said, yester day. I have kept UP my
house az great expense In the hope that
sell everything and get away from il,
don" w AVA
Willard has triumphed at last with
THE Professors Love story in Lon.
don. After It's instantaneous New York
success: he hoped for similar speedy re-
suits abroad, but he was disappointed.
After the first few weeks OF Its run he
was out OF pocket, and then the tide
began to turn, and has been turning
, eyer .. since; The critics abroad do not
Inv iHe tiOIesSOTS Love Story One
OF them calls it ridiculous napdoodie
farce, They prefer Willard in melo-
thanks to the tidy little fortune he has
already made In this country, can az
ford all sorts OF experiments.
A dancer who IN looking for an en-
gagement announces To managers as an
extra inducement the redolsnt facts
that she MAS the society hit" OF last
season at sherry's in the ''minuet de la
cour;' that she did refined scarf
dance" at Col Ingersolrs house before
ninety guests. and that she was the
originator OF the Quaker dance that
ran for four years In the Gaiety The
atre, London.
The Rosenfeld brothers have not vet
decided where they will present Smae-
tana,s opera, The Battered Bride" OF
which SO much has been said. DR.,
Schiller, who has been engaging people
In Europe for the production, Is ex-
pected here in II couple of weeks, and a
theatre will then be secured.