The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-04
sPENDTHRIFT THEsPIANs.
Stage Folks Earn Much and Yet Have
IitfIe.

From the New York Advertiser
Why is it that so many actors die poor?
It's a question often asked, and the an
swer is easy from general standpoint.
Stage people are prohigate with money;
their rowing manner of life is not con-
ducive to saving, and they are thrown
against so many temptations that even q
Russell Sage might find some difficulty,
were he of the profession, to resist the
longing to blow in the coin of the realm
as fast as payday came around
But when the individual spending idi-
osyncrasles Of the stage folk are con-
sidered says the Pittsburg Post it he
comes a mighty interesting question
Every few weeks a benefit is announced
for the family of some dead and gone light
been popular and a big money maker in
his day. There are very few women in
the profession who are not improvident
but, rather oddly, the majority of the wo-
men VINO make success on the stage
are money savers, and when the time
comes for them to retire the invariably
nave nave a neat little nest-egg to fall back
upon. Some actors say that it is their
lear OF sudden death while travelling
ABOUT on badly managed railroads thar
induces them to get all the pleasure thew
can while they are living, and then thew
Teclte that timeworn remark of being a
long time dead.
William Hoey says that he will never
pe rlch until he is living reality of his
famous song about the man who broke the
bank at Monte Carlo William usualiyr
goes abroad in the summer. and he takes
with nm all the money he has saved dur.
ing a season of hard work He never.
brings niclSle of it back; in fact he has
never been known to start the next season
on exactly even terms with the world as
tar as finances go. 1t is said that be reg
ularly goes up against the real bank of
Monte Carlo. If this story is so there will
be no reason, when the time comes, for the
public or his friends to wonder why BIZ
Hoey died poor man. His song viii tell
De Wolf Hopper is another genius who
makes piles of money, and has little to
snow Tor II except large army of friends
rake Hopper at any season of the year
heavy and it's doubtful if his balance in
the bank amounts to more than very few
hundred dollars. He is a spender from
very early in the morning until extremely
late at night. His love of the national
game costs him a smart sum every year
IN the rash bets he makes. Ask him
what ne does with his money, and he will
probably say that he spends it on wigs
Certain 4 IS that he has very fine col
lection of those useful articles to a bald
man. but they don't quite represent all of
his spendinEs.
Francis Wilson is quite the opposite to
Hopper. It's a rare thing to find a COM
eQlan who IS a money saver, and Wilson
4 one of these. Perhaps it is the hard
tight he had to make at the beginning of
ms career which makes him careful. WIZ
son was in receipt of a weekly salary of
SO as song and dance man when he be-
came fired with an ambition to do '1egit-
innate work
It took considerable courage to give IN
the certainty of $40 pes. week for an I'M
certainty, but he did 1t, and began in the
ieglumate field on the humble salary of
SIC. He labored studfously and patiently
and every bit of his success is the result
or hard, incessant work. He is well to do
now in the worlds goods He has a mag
nihceut $4,000 house at New Rochelle N
y, and has a neat sum stored away In
safe investments. He keeps adding to his
fortune right along, and before his stage
days are numbered he promises to be an
exceedingly rich man.
Nat Goodwin Is paradOXical when re-
garded from a financial standpoint He
ouEt to be a poor man. yet ne is compare
lively well to do, having a fortune some
Is one of the most constant gambler on
earth. He viii match pennies for IS gold
pieces or 500 bills. He plays poker and
faro all night long, and has been up
against every style of gambling game
known to human mind. He is a hail-feI-
money promiscuously. He buys dinners
and wine for people with a freedom that
would stagger q. millionaire Perhaps the
secret of his financial success is that he
is one Of the cleverest poker players in
the land
A story is told about a game he is said
to have played with w. G. Owens the man
who defeated Col. Breckenridge in the
famous congressional race In the Ash
land district of Kentucky. This famous
game, according to the story took place
in Louisville. and incidentally il might
finest poker player in the United States
They started to play early on Sunday,
and they played all that day; kept the
game up all night and were still at it on