The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-07
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What Has Been and Will Be 10 Our
Local TheaterS.
GOSSIP or STAGE fAVORITES
Paragraphs Of News and Comment Con.
cerning the Inhabitants Of the Minnie
World-Anuouncemeuts Of Coming
Attractions The atrical Tidiags.

FrankPerley, manager of Nine. Mod
jeska. is in Chicago, closing up the
business of the season. Although that
esteemed lady is rapidly recovering her
health, 1t Is deemed best not to resume
her tour this season. She could not be
ready for work before April. and Mr..
Perley believes that there would be car
tain disadvantages in resuming the sea-
son at so late day after such an inter-
ruption in the plans of his star. but
states that she will renew her tour next
fall under the most brilliant auspices.
Up to the time when she was compelled
by illness to cancel her dates Nine.
Modjeska's business was extremely
prosperous, and there was little doubt
that she would have distanced all for
mer records of financial success. She
Is at present resting at the home of her
son in Chicago. but expects, in the
course of two or three weeks, to set out
for California.
Il Il II
A week after the first production of
Robin Hood" Dekoven and Smith
agreed to take $1,000 in cash for the
opera. All Business Manager MacDOn-
aid. of the BOstonians, would give was
$4,000 and so they continued to play
the piece at a royalty. Macdonald told
SHttNtT 'OouNl III iIt otIlti udy tIliit as
u result of their not giving this $1,000
more that up to the time the New York
engagement began couple of weeks
ago they had paid for the work So 900,
and there is no telling where it will end.
Sarah Bernhardt. Fanny Davenport
and EleonOra Duse are to play stimuli
taneously i'm Boston very soon. Daven-
pOct said last week that she was ready
for the fray. although she made the de-
claratiOn with mock tragedy air,
worthy "A SardOu climax. 1T will be
FIance, Italy and America" she said.
and of course poor America will come
out very much the worse for wear. 1t
always does. never knew so unpa-
triotic people. / have seen Bern
hardt. and l do not claim to rival her
| have not seen DuSe and know nothing
of her methods. One thing l do claim
and that is. l put just as much study
into my parts as they do in theirs. And
l do another thing that neither Sarah
Bernhardt nor Duse can do trans
late and adapt my own plays
Stories of the strange discrepancies
in the salaries of the singers in theAb
hey 4 Grau company are told from
time to time, and they are often as sur
prising when they are true as when
they are not. When Calve sang here
first and made the opera season sue
cess. ii was said, says q New York au-
thOrity, that she received a cOmpara-
lively small sum in accordance with a
contract that she made with Maurice
Grau before her fame in Europe was as
great as it is now. The Opera house
was burned down, and she came to
America year later than she had con-
tracted to. In the meantime she ac-
Qured vogue which made her worth
several times as much as she was when
she signed her contract for this coun-
try Maurice Grau denied this story.
and it is fact that she received $500 Il
night when she appeared here first.
PlancOn, who is one of the greatest ia
vorites at the Opera house. and is.
moreover as fine a bass as the world
has ever seen. Is said to get only $3.50 a
week. a surprisingly small sum in lieu
of his frequent appearances and his
drawing power with the public. This
low figure is explained by the fact that
when he came to this country from
Paris he had his reputation to make
and signed contract with the opera
management for three years. The sal
ary he received was larger than that
which the grand opera in Paris paid
him, and he gladly accepted it. so he is
singing for a very much smaller sum
than some of his associates who are not
nearly so useful
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An artist in England. France. Ger
many or Italy Is reasonably sure that