The record-union., 1897-11-07

carries the low comedies roles as be-
fore, and in "The Fire Patrol is hap
PLY cast in part giving him full op
portunity as a fun-maker. There is
to be a change of bill each night. Pop
ular prices are to prevail.
THE expenses of vaudeville" SAYS
Hillary Bell, lend in the salary list
Generally considered, the music hall
is relieved of the cost of production and
costumes. This is a considerable item
il favor of vaudeville, which has entire
ly escaped what the Sheriff of Noting
ham in Robin Hood" calls the eygel
ee" of our neighbor. Take Nature at
the academy for example. It's author
spent twenty years on its invention. The
production represents an outlay of prob
ably $4,000 If that is too extrava-
CANT an illustration, consider Change
Alley at the Lyceum. +. II. Sothern
spent S., 900 before the curtain was
raised. That amount represents five
weeks stay of Yvette Guilbert at Roster
& Balls. Then there is always the pos
sibility of failure for a play, in which
case the money invested in it's scenery
and costumes is lost. There was THE
Voyage of Suzette," at the American,
for example In that unfortunate pro-
duetion T. Henry French spent $50, 200,
and half an hour after the curtain went
up his investment was worthless Au-
gustin DAILY spends from 1900 to $40
600 on each of his Shakespearean pro-
ductions. In addition to his costly seem
cry Charles Frohman sets aside a heavy
sum for his women's gowns. some of
which cost 1000. These expenses all
occur before the play begins. After that
salaries have to be settled, from the SD,
a week walking lady or chorus girl to
the $3.50 or $500 a week leading woman
or prima donna. Furthermore, these
legitimate performers are engaged by
the season, and whether or not the piece
is successful the manager must pay
their wages for forty weeks. Music halls
are bound by no such restrictions.
yaudevillers are hired bx the week or
month
"A recent number of the London Daily
News has the following:
There has been a race against time
sn Vienna, says our correspondent there,
between Signori Puccini and Leonca-
yallo as composers of an opera, La Bo-
home" founded on Henri Murger's WELL
known story. The work of Signor Le-
oncavallo the younger and more en-
thusiastic composer, was accepted early
in the summer for the Imperial Opera
house, and was to have been performed
on the Emperors fete day, the 4th OF
October. Signor Puccini made con-
tract with Mademoiselle Sehonerer. the
proprietress of the Theater an der Vein.
according to which has "Boheme" was
to be played on the 1st of October, but
the ponderous institution of the Impe-
rial opera generally delays fits first pro-
ductions. and a Czech opera, by Nj.
Smetana, "Dalibor." was last evenings
novelty, while Signor Leoncavallo's
"Boheme" has been indefinitely post
poned.
At the final rehearsal of Signor Puc-
cini's work, after the first act. which
pleased more than any other. the man.
ageress came to the footlights TO ev-
plain why the fourth act must be tried
after the first. A party of children re-
quired for the second act could not. ac-
cording to the Austrian school laws.
leave class before II O'Clock. and would
not he dressed for their parts before /;
SO the death scene was sung when we
knew nothing of the life which had
led to such a premature. tragic end. The
author of the libretto attended the re-
hearsal, and looked rather gloomy in
listening TO the German version of his
work Last night NJ. Smetana's grand
opera, "Daiibor," performed for the.