St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-22

| uUt 10 pOSL ANY more money WIN Cn6
Herald as being the strongest man ON
earth.
OF course, one would expect that the
men ana women who register at such an
agency as attempt to describe would
carry their Characterization stage
characteristic their faces.
Quite the contrary ia the fact.
As sat Oh the sofa and watched the
different men and women come in-lots
or women in the morning and the men
in the afternoon-I was much perplexed'
by the way the persons registered. > -
Some very kindly-lUoking ladies,
whom Pm afraid TO say were nearing
the toothless age, all registered as char
| acter actresses.
A group of equally old fellows applied
for juvenile parts. l
1t seems, then, that the actor never
ages. Z
The rush of chorus girls who wanted
TO play comedy, OF variety girls who
| would do almost anything, and of SOU
bretIes who would try anything, was
simply enormous
| You can't appreciate the enormous
amount OF desire on the part of these
people until you hear them talk. o Z
| DRAMATIC AGENCIES. '
| The reason that these dramatic agen-
cles have Increased and flourished, and
are now conferred about Herald square,
Is because they are invented to save
| theatrical managers the bother of filling
| ont their own bills.
| 1t isn't exactly the incest way of put
ting il, but it is the truest to say that
the dramatic agency of today is the
| same as servant agency.
| l want cook or butler at so much,
and she or he has got to be able to do SO
| and so.
There you are.
The middleman has come to be recog-
nized as prime factor in matters the
| atrical.
The manner in which plays are put
upon the stage today, the elaboration of
detail and the perfection of stage set
ting demand the entire time and atten-
ton OF the manager.
A lively manager of the day has five.
six, eight companies, perhaps, on the
road-a road that may lead TO fortune
or railway ties.
His first tenor takes cold, h s SOU
brette gets married, his old man &C.
QuIreS ''jag''-to whom can he turn?
HIS whole mind is given up to his bust
ness. his dates and his railway journey.
In steps then the dramatic agent, the
booking agent whom you have been
taking about.
gu SeHU your QlSpaCcn.
Send me a TENOR" II want a
heavy" Have you got an old man?"
and SO on.
In day the man, woman or child
who has registered on the books of the
agency, and who may suit. IS fired off
10 the eXpectant manager, and a jolly
time he has when the new recruit ar
rives.
PRETTY POOR BUFFERS.
don't say that Rose Goghlan or Min
ME Seligman Cutting or John Drew
frequents these dramatic agencies, but
you would be surprised TO know how
many other tirst-elass artists depend
upon them for their bread and butter.
So sure, for instance, is the agency
run by one Nugent, Of which write,
that he has established regular loan.
department in connection with the
dramatic.
''Pve got diamonds, satin brooade
gown. silk tights"-almost anythiRgs1
that has any intrinsic value-and the:
men or women get fair advances and
not too usurlous interest from the best
agencies.
A. rum 'un comes along sometimes! Fl
Lend me $780," said a leading old
lady the other day. Z
"On what?" II
ION my wardrobe"
where's your wardrobe?'' j
Pm going to buy it with the hundred
dollarsr' Il
THE BUSY SEASON. i
This Is the busiest season of the year
ia the booking business -a
The player tries to be thrifty. He
looks ahead as far as he cBn see. He is 4
looking now for next winter. Eyery
one who has a particle of claim upon
managers and the public is now booking
for next winter. ~
Ii you don't get your name in early,9
with your photograph and a description
OF what you can do Clipped from
country paper, you are apt to miss your
next Thanksgiving day dinner.
II you are pretty young girl you
Will he we'll and properly treated by an
agency.
If you are old and elderly you will be
as we'll received. The musical director
may not leave his typewriter for you or
the manager get out his imitation pansy
from the drawer, but, whether you are
old or young, male or female, clever or
humpug, you will surely be accorded a
fair show, registration and trial at the
Herald Square Dramatic bureau.
And, 'pon my word, ii you asked me
where it was l could only say: Across
the street,