The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-26

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ror Laughing or For Being Late
c.,t,ng to Rehearsais'
What i'm the world can you make
NOW rot ,yordg" the manager asked.
ut OF w. ',orter looked over his shoulder |
Inc nm nnzzled too The reporter had
hd W"s iod into the office TO say "How
psf uro ~, and 70 hear IL any new orbits had
calculated for tho planets ana satGi-
,os Of the stage. Inc paper when tne
anaoer held was a report from the Stage
anager. 1t said; MISS - ana MISS
fined for making (then came the
"A that was hard to read gestures, 90
MS each. Miss - anu MISS - lor
..hine at them aloud, 20 Genus each.
'Tss' ouestion--merely for the satisfaction
i"O onrriosity, not that II was OF any Other |
- .nortance-was what sort OF gestures
LIZ LIZ were which, in the opinion OF the
' 4"so manager, ought to cost 90 cents each.
.Stsr n good deal of study the word was
10 ont to be "exageratory.
~Do YOU have TO fine the members OF
horns often for making 'exageratory'
's.,,res ar for other faultsl" the reporter
asked u,,o+ ,,or, a.
-, With our company, which is employed
.snougb the season and is thoroughly dis
',.,,ned there Is less need of it than there
- n come others that are got together for
sborter periods and are not so well trained
and managed. But it has to be done some
zines There is no other way to insure dis
",rIipe To keep them in order all the
.i,no Won have got to touch them where
thew feel it most, in their pockets.
s;What are the usual offenses for which
Won impose finest"
'~Just such as these that you see before
| .or-acting wrong on the stage or laugh
mo or talking or dressing wrong, or faults
,eu,ol;ng nm or hardness. Half a dollar
q. tbe usual amount, or quarter for little
things.
"Neyer morer
ooh for something more important,
like impertinence to the stage manager,
thore might be a fine of q dollar now and
then. but halves and quarters are the reg
Mar thing. A man or woman In the
chorus. or a girl in the ballet, who is get
tng stb n week, really misses 90 cents ana
will generally try hard not TO lose it. "
apo YOU have to keep up the system all
through the season.
ooh yes. from the beginning of rehears-
ais to the very end. There is little more
latitude at rehearsals, of course, than there
;e when the piece is actually on the stage
and before the public. 1t doesn't make Sc
much difference then If a chorus girl WINS
pers to the one next to her at the wrong
time, and promptness is not SO necessary
though most stage managers are preuUS
particular on that point.
"Uow much latitude do you allow II
the matter of hardness before you lmpos'
flnes?''
"None. now. We used TO, and some com
NAMES do still, but we think the better wa.
is to require absolute promptness. ho'
have heard the expression among actors
'Ten minutes for difference of watches.
That used to be the rule always all owe
the world, suppose. That Is, you know
If n rehearsal was called for 10 O'CLOCK
nobody would be fined for lateness IL u
got there before 1910. A few years ago /
England they began the system OF calm
a rehearsal say at 10 o'clock for lO:3O
That meant that the appointed hour 10
assembling was 10 and for beginning III
rehearsal 10 80, and that a fine would
imposed on anybody who was not there
1890. We did that for awhile, and thlh
It is a good way, but now we simply giN
the exact hour and expect everybody TO
on hand. If they would be safe, or II th'
suspect that their clocks and watches III
wrong, they can make allowance lot
themselves and come ten minutes earn
inst as well as to come ten minutes Ia
and expect rs to make the allowance.
Actors who were indignant at the II
position of fines have been known to i
ho or MANAGER i
save the money, but there is little reas'
to suppose that this is done with any II
ouency. Fines are small penalties for pc
ple with small salaries. There have be'
Jokes about the managers getting his tot
receipts from the fines Of the actors, o
they were only jokes. The lines Oh u
opera company would scarcely amount
$50 in the course of season, ana IL Won
not be worth a managers whlle W Wy
save money in that way.
Some managers give all their hheS -, -
charity at the end of the season. LA
Henderson of the Chicago opera iio.
does that, and he has good, Dig UNI.
Chicago burlesque company on MS n"n'
and the fines amount to more 1hah .noy
with some companies. some in"nae
save up the fines and return theih "
actors who have paid them at the Gnu
the season. In this case, OF course,
only punishment is the inconvenience
going without the money for time. =,
the chorus girls do not know, when -. u
do wrong, that they are going TO geD u,
fines back. 1t depends on the pieasuie
the manager, and he does not spoii
effect of his penalties by telling tna1 ~
merely acting as compulsory panhol. =,
1t happened once in recorded history VI
certain stage manager reporteu "
manager that Miss So-and-so was h,'eu }.
cents for whispering. 1t happencu
there were four Miss So-and-sos, sis.ele
the chorus, and the manager dld h0o M
which one of them was meant th1 a..
brilliant plan occurred to him Oh III
each one of them 20 cents, ana nc aoo.
ipgly did so, subtracting thao ano
from the envelope of each one when !.
day came. And all four girls suDin =
without complaint. This story -
fable-teaches that violent protests as''
fines are not the rule, and that tnoro
some persons ON the stage who khoM
they ought to be fined whether '"0'
or not.-New York Tribune.
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