The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-22
STAGE NEWS lhl HBTEs..
An Agent Said to Be Lending
Money at High Interest.
Elsie Adair, the Dancer, Is in
Yokohama.

the people for theatrical firm that Is
to send out eleven companies this sea-
son, has been fattening on the misera-
bic condition or actors this year. by lend
ing moneyat a scandalously usurious rate
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 rs per cent. This week
he wanted $50. He went to the agent.
and offered to give him hish note for 800
for the loan of $780, The agent declared
that money was worth more now. He
would loan $50 in return for the actors
note for .i25. and per cent. per three
months IN addition. lie actor was in
dignant. The money was to be deducted
| from his salary as soon as the season
| began. IT'S a bunco game" he told the
agent. and l refuse to. join the com.
members OF the firm heard 1t. He sent
! for the actor, and asked him what he
meant by his belligerent behavior. When
earnest. he himself adm tt,i thai the rate
Of interest was rather high. The actor,
however, refused to be pacified, and de-
than work COR such arm. one actor
secured a loan on his household furni,,
tmre, valued at 5000; another borrowed
$S5 and had to give his note for $50;
| Some OF the unfortunate actors are well
known, but the desperate condition of
Into the clutches Of this agent. Every
the affair yesterday. The rate of interest
demanded in one case, was 24o per cent.
per year.
Elsie Adair, the little serpentine
dencer who used to turn fiip-haps at
the roof gardens, is now dancing around
wo from Mss er prSsGr rsseg dated
July 16. She is with her husband, Wal
Of eleven American, specially per-
pan, China and South Africa. The com
pany stopped at Honolulu. she says,
and drew packed house. Among the
diard, James Boyer, Dan Kelly. senorita
| Dolores. Bessie Grey, Edith Holmes, Al
fred James. George Butler and Waiter
Mitchell.
Rose Coghlan ~ doing Saratoga all by
herself. and her hubby is rehearsing the
company in the city. Miss Coghlan is
negotiating with Robert Hilliard for her
support this season, but the ticklish
| question OF terms has not vet been ad-
tusted. Mr.. Hilliard values himself very
highly. and that is the only way to get
not one of the actors who says my
salary Ia SIS per week. but I'll take SIS. T"
The little Barrison sisters are VOL king
hard for European Endorsement"
The Aihambra, In London. proved to be
| somewhat disastrous, and now they have
been dragged to Les Ambassadors. In
Paris. In New York their great aim in
life appeared to be to parade Broadway
clothes, and seeming to be unconscious
them.
=, An American actor who played this
summer IL LONDON 9aSIo met there good Cd!
very dicagreeable circumstances. There
| Is nm impression among actors" he said,
thst # Is possible t. iye very ehsspy
racket acquire a certain amount OF pres
tiye as well. While 1 was abroad a
ndmber of American actors were
was very great. They used TO haunt the
more afflueht visitors; they would way
lay the members Of Days company. and
not possible to live cheaply in London
unless one knows the ropes, and to 90
there friendless and unknown is alto
gether 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.
ness here last season. but he cannot be
win play through the country, opening
his season In Chicago in October.
W; H. Morton, Miss Lily Posts hus-
band. Is setting worse. and Miss Post
said, yesterday. " / have kept IN nv
house At great expense In the hope that
sell everything and get away from il
} hat Is why l am anxious to go to Lon
Willard has triumphed at last with
The Professors Love story in Lon.
! don. After Its instantaneous New York
. success he hoped for similar speedy re-
suits suits abroad, hut he was disappointed
was out OF pocket. and then the tide
began to turn. and has been turning
; eye eyer sin. since The critics abroad do moi
OF them calls 1t ridiculous fapdoodie
farce They prefer Willard in meio.
drama. The English actor. however
thanks to the tidy little fortune he has
: already made in this country, can AT.
ford all sorts OF experiments.
; A dancer who is looking for an en-.
saSement announces to managers as an
, extra inducement the redolent facts
5 that she was the society hit" of last
: season at sherry's in the "minuet de ia
, cour:". that she did refined scarf
dance" at Col. Ingersoll's house before
aVa1
originator OF the Quaker dance thai
+ ran Tor four years I'm the Gaiety The.
The Rosenfeld brothers have not We,
? decided where they will present Sma e.
; tana's opera, The BATTERED Bride" of
z which so much has been said. DR.
] Schiller. who has been engaging people
IN Europe for the production, Is ex.
. pected here in a couple of weeks, and q
: theatre will then be secured
DRUNKARDs OUT OF DATE.