The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-23
SOME THEATRICAL TALK.
Including an Interesting Opinion In
the Matter of Advertising.
From ID Clnelnnati EnquIrer.

| from the CINCINNATI Enquirer
New York. oct 1O.-Sltting at the old
| Academy of Music. still crowded with peo-
pie to see The Sporting Duchess" with
its continuous realisms OF bathrooms. court
trials. the paddock, the Derby. etc. the
manager said to me:
about five theater men out OF fifty in
| New York are seeing daylight. We bought
this property, the original home of Ital-
ian opera in New York for $4,000, and
that saved u.s. ''Trllby has seen A. NJ.
Palmer through. DAILY has been making
nothing. Grau is the one of the three in
Abbeys trio Of opera and theater mana
gers who has some money. Mrs. Shoffel.
formerly Agnes Booth, gets $3.50 week
from us"
piece as this, with 50 much parapher-
nalta2"
"our salary list is $500 a week. We pay
Stoddard, the old character actor $3.50 q
week. He Is the salt of the earth just as
good an actor as jefferson, and a good
deal like Joe Jefferson. Willing, cOnscien-
tious, and effective. he earns his salary,
| and is DESTROYS 70 work more. Mrs. Booth,
or Shoffel, Is the beat actress in the United
States; mean the best card. for all around
satisfaction"
How much are your advertising bills p
About $3.50 week. Tney ought to be
cut down TO seven instead Of fifteen news
papers, Tor only seven are of any benefit
to us. The others we carry to have no an
noyance. Five morning papers and the af-
ternoOn editions of two OF them give us
some return for our money. The others
DO not. And II Is the same with display
bills or sheets for fences and walls; we
have been paying $50 a week for bill stick
ing, and 1t is Of no benefit at this date.
There are rival or sectional bands of bill
stickers, throwing into each others hands
districts beyond other districts, and they
have precipitated a row which is just what
1 Mt IL trFfI he. h..
while nothing. We want to put our mon
ey into the stage attractions and pay
brains and wit instead of noise and
What have you made the most money
upon IN your near thirty years Of man
aging?"
stead man. and The Black Crook /
found Thompson in an obscure show.
saw his cleverness, fetched him out to
Broadway, and made $3.50 900 for him 1
don't believe he has retired; stars of all
kinds, dramatic and literary, sometimes
lose their managerial relation ana seem
TO be out, but they are still in It,"
Which Of the American dramatists
lasts the best?"
Bronson Howard. He is as nice a man
as he Is steady winner at playwriting
His Shenandoah was mounted by us on
big scale Thomas, who wrote Ala
bama, Is clever, but he writes too many
concentration, and after he has done a
good thing TO rest upon 1t a good while"
What Is the conclusion of stage fav-
orites good g. III"
Various. according to their degrees of
sense. Here is So and So spoiled by
fifteen years of adulation and careless
ness; in a few years she will be in some
Of these all-day continuous performances
as cheap attraction. But old Stod-
dard draws his $3.50 a week in old age, as
he has lived rustic life and kept off the
pavement Up here above the Academy
on Lexington avenue, lives Agnes Ethel,
the widow of Tracy of Buffalo, in that
corner brown stone. She made a matri-
monial hit and quit. Just above the acad-
envy here lies Gilman, the butcher. dead;
he pinned for an elegant home up town
after a lifetime In Washington Market;
he had Just built Il. elaborate and fash
ionable, and in II he lies dead, ne plus
ultra, which kills many a man. There is
Ned Booths Players Club just above it,
in Tilden's row. Booth tried to man
age, found it was a false position, went
through bankruptcy. and made a second
fortune Playing too long, he was al
most forced off the stage and this club
was his last play. Managers as wen as
actors extend themselves too far, and too
confident and omit preparation for that
rainy DAY too long. Popular favor is best
secured by good sense. Sense is the win
ner over beauty wit, talent, and popular
itv.'' Gath.