The evening world., 1894-06-22
DEEP GLOOM ON THE R|AITO.
Actors Lack Engagements Owing
to Theatrical Stagnation.
Charles Coghlan Has Been an Ex-
pensive Luxury.

A good many theatrical people went
to the Suburban yesterday, but there
were a good many more who didn't
The Rialto was very well populated,
for the season has been bad one, and
the sporty actor has no money to ven
ture on horse races one well-known
leading man was exceedingly angry be-
cause he saw his ex-manager go com
fortably to Sheepshead. Hes going on
my money" said the actor Indignantly.
He owed me two weeks salary, and
he let me pay my fare back from the
West, All l hope is that he backs the
wrong horse" 1t was mostly the mana
gers who patronized the races. The
Rialto seemed fuller. IL possible, OF
seedy actors and bedraggled soubrettes,
parading up and down and discussing
the probabilities in groups at the street
corners. Engagements are very hard
to get Just now. Managers are holding
back before binding themselves by con-
tract and 1t looks very much as though
things would remain in their present
stagnant condition until August. Rich
ard Mansfield and his dapper little man
agcr John Slocum, rolled up Broadway
In a victoria. looking very opulent. The
actors looked at him enviously. 1t was
the little contrasting touch in picture
of Summer inertia and disappointment.
Mansfield looked as though he knew
that he supplied that touch.
John T. Sullivan says that Charles
Coghlan has cost the Rose Coghan
Company something like $25, 900 during
A.
been very carefully made. The failure
of "The Check Book" entailed n loss
of nearly S. OOo, and Miss Coghlan was
very much cut up about It,. Her plans
Tor next season are not as yet mature.
She has one or two new plays. but she
expects that her strong feature will
be a comedy that must first be present
ed In London. II everything fails.
Diplomacy" Is still to the good-an ex-
cellent prop to lean upon.
One or two antique soubrettvs on
Broadway yesterday declared that they
would willingly emulate Pauline Mark
hams example and break a leg II they
could be quite sure of finding a jury
gallant enough to award them $1,000 dam
great topic on the Rialto.2 One wag de-
clared that she should now appear on
the vaudeville stage with song en-
TITLED, my Leg Is My Fortune, Sir, She
Said.'
Commissioner Hess cannot quite
fathom the ITysteries of theatrical life
as interpreted by his promising son
Seymour The srt Young actor appears a. Is
not a role that calls for the burning OF
midnight oil in study. 'Whenever | see
Seymour" complained the Commits
sioner to some friends, "he says he is
going to rehearsal, and whenever see
| the show, he's worse
Some of "The New South actors ap-
pear to have had rather melancholy
time of II during the season lust closed
Salt Lake civ. and they didn't like It.
Then they playe irreg ia ly, in fractions
of week, and this proved to be un'
profitable. However, the past season
loaf is always better than no bread.
The tongues OF the gossipng Rialto
| ties are still wagging about the depar'
turc for Europe upon the same steamer
OF Herbert Kelcey, Efie Shannon anG
Mommer shannon, There seems t, be
| some curiosity TO know whether Mrs
Caroline Hill Kelcey will be at south
ampton to meet her fat hubby and hi'
gentle friends. Why should the RialtC
care any way
The sympathy of the Rialto Is witt
| Fred BelasCO, now at BlackwellS $ lslanC
for non-payment of alimony. \ very
gruesOme story was told yesterday b!
! Mir. Belasco's most intimate friend. L
was to the effect that the theatrica
washing dead bodies for burial. Man,
actors are highly indignant, and ar,
discussing ways and means OF amelior
ating his condition. They have ever
talked of getting up beneht.
| anlg hiG at . IA.
Standard Theatre tomorrow night, anC
begins work again in August. Hi,
friends tell him that "Sam'l of Posen'
Is good for AT least two years to come
but Mr.. Curtis Is still ambitious. Ii,
says he wants to do something new
but finds 1t hard work to get anything
to suit his peculiar line. "Saml o,
Posen" has certainly had a long anc
arduOuS career.