The herald., 1898-05-08


"Hazel Kirke" ..............3,000 1000 900
shenandoah" h"..............1200 200 1000 900
Fifteen plays for which
the public have paid. .$34, Isl, 900
SOME OrHEB BIG RECEIPTS.
'Mavourneen" ...... ...... 900 $500 900
'The Power Of the Press" 1,120 10000
'"The Senator" .............. $50 $50 900
MADAME Sans Gene" ...... 720 100 000
From this table 1t will be seen that
"Shore Acres" and "Adonis'' are the two
pieces that have averaged over $1,000 gross
receipts per each and every performance
given, while 1.-The Two Orphans" although
played more times than any other piece
on the list, averaged only about $3.50 for
each performance, and the lowest aver
age is that of "Hazel Kirke" with 1888 for
each of 5000 performances
On the subject of large earnings Manager
Pitou is reported as saying: "I think that
no production has ever equaled in earn
ing power the seasons which the Booth
Barrett combination played in the legiti-
mate. l know that during one season the
profts-not the gross earnings, but the
profts-were $600,000 of which Mr.. Booth
received so per cent, or $780, ,000 Mr.. Bar
rett 40 per cent, or $24O,OOo, and the man.
ager Mr.. Chase, ten per cent, or s60OoO."
Theatrical men always refer to the re-
ceipts of the first 1873 performances of "The
Shaughran" at the old Wallacks theater
as phenomenal. The gross receipts were
$243.000.
1.-THE Little Minister" bids fair to be a
record breaker. In its first thirty weeks 1t
has played to $272,S
The Anglo-American entente Is not al
lowed to grow cold for lack Of cordiality
on the side of ]. B. At great spectacular
performance now being given at Drury
lane theater In London the soubrette
sings song that has the following refrain:
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner and dear old
Union Jack!
Together let those flags be unfurled;
If John Bull and Jonathan should put their
heads together
I'll wager they would wallop all the
world"
The metre is faulty, but there is no doubt
about the meaning, and the reception
given to the song by the immense audience
each night that 1t is sung would be con-
vincing proof. says correspondent, of
the genuineness of the enthusiasm with
which the Ango-American idea is enter
tanned by the masses in the old country.
Naval plays are to be the order of the
week at our local theaters. 1.-The Ensign
,ierb ot tI,a Il,trl rltar, U
and 1.-THE Purser'' comes along on Thurs
day at the Los Angeles. The smell of
salt water and the rich flavor of patriotism
will pervade each auditorium.
Manager T. D. Frawley will open his
season at the Columbia theater San
Francisco, June 18th. His company will
comprise the following people, according
to latest advices: Edward M. Bell, Theo-
dore Roberts, Samuel Edwards, Alfred
Hickman, Robert G. Wilson, ALT Hampton.
David Conger. John T. Burke, T. Daniel
Frawley, Edith Crane, Cora Tinne, Maud
Winter, Eleanor Carey and Gertrude Ben
nett.
The principal plays will be: IAN Enemy
to the King" Daly's mo g." 1.-THE Masked
Ball." "Lost-TwentyFour Hours" Lib
erty Hail." "His Absent Boy 1.-THE Danc-
ing Girl" "The Rajah," 1.-THE Tanning of
the sherw;" also a new comedy from the
French and new drama by Edward
E. Kidder.
o o o
The Saturday Review, in an article upon
the London Elizabethan Stage Society,"
intimates that the good work done by the
society has involved so much expense that
its collapse is inevitable unless 1t gets as.
sistance. AS to the artistic performance
the Saturday Review SAYS
about ten productions have been under
taken, involving unprecedented expendi-
ture, care and research in the matter of cos
tunes. Here Mr.. Poel has unquestionably
made a contribution to theatrical art. AS
usual. he has received little acknowledge
ment except for the Quainter aspects of his
Elizabethanism; but the truth is that moth i.
ing like the dressing Of his productions has
been seen by the present generation; our
ordinary managers have simply been pat
ronizing the conventional costumer's bus!-
ness In a very expensive way, while M.
Poel has achieved artistic originality, beau
ty, a4ad novelty of effect, as we'll as the full
est Gttainablc measure of historical con-
vlction. He has done extraordinary things