Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-30

900 and Joe Murphy 100000. Lolita
made her money through the possess
sion of the most popular personality
ever exhibited on the stage. Maggie
Mitchell's gold mine was an accident.
She was playing small parts in St.
Louis theater when the orhestra leader
happened to come across Fanchon
and. thinking Maggie Mitchell ought
to play the part well, had an adapta-
ton of the play made for her. AT
one period Fanchon the Cricket was as
familiar as Uncle Toms Cabin and 1t
was the successes of this play that war
rants the assumption that Maggie
Mitchell is now possessed of over ST.
000,00 Joseph Jeffersons $1,000, 600
are due as much to good business
ability as to his art as an actor. and
Sol Smith Russell accumulated his by
playing his peculiar brand of comedy
to crowded houses and investing his
share of the receipts in Minneapolis
real estate. Joe Murphy and Kerry
Cow together earned his share of the
worlds wealth and If anybody can
keep 1t that man Is Murphy. They tell
of Murphy that twenty years ago he
would ostentatiously borrow money
from his friends and afterwards quiet
ly return 1t for the purpose of keeping
others from asking him for n loan.
There are some, however, who know
of Murphy's good deeds and his chari-
ties are probably as extensive as
should be expected. A few of those
who have not reached the mark which
separates wealth from plutocracy aAs
W. II. Crane with three quarters of
q million which he will reach in q
few years unless fate takes a dislike
to him; Fanny Davenport with $780,
600, which would seem to justify her
sohern. Drew, Wilson, Morrison, By
ron, wallack and Keene, with sums
ranging from S250.000 to a paltry $780,
600, II will be noticed that az u wealth
producer comedy Is strongly in the
lead. the only ones who have amassed
fortunes from the serious drama be-
ing Fanny Davenport, Lewis Morri-
son and Thomas w. Keene. Melo-
drama of the lyric type has but one
representative. James IL. Wallack,
whose plays are ALL alike The Ranch
King, and comic opera finds Francis
Wilson the only one who has kept the
money 1t makes him.-S. F. Chronicle.
A member of the News" STAFF now
in London land who attended the per-
Torrance referred to-. sends us n
marked copy of the London Daily
Mail with the following interesting ar
ticle under the caption. THE Belle of
New York. Still Another American
Success"
Inc New world mas good zeal 10
teach the old one. II seems. even in
matters Of the stage. our managers
have always prided themselves upon
their skill and taste In the composition
of what Is called musical comedy"
Our comedians attain worldwide cele-
brity In this go-as-you-please Kind of
work. Some of our daintiest actresses
allow it's allurements to tempt them
from the paths OF comedy And until
last evening the prestige of certain
theaters devoted to this form of en-
tertainment has never stood In danger.
At the Shaftesbury theater, however.
NJ. Lederer, OF the Casino of New
York, In an hour or two blew many
cherished beliefs to the wind At first
1t was the spirit of enthusiasm which
was most noticeable. Such gusto, such
a will, SO artistic finish, not only
among the leaders but the very hum,
blest OF subordinates. never was seen.
The story OF Harry Bronson, the prodi-
gal son, turned adrift by his fanatcal
father might be trite and childish
enough, but the spirit II was told with
made old playgoers stare. From the
young bloods who saw Harry through