The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-24

WY N$$%M ~
CHARLES
He Will Be Seen Here Next Wednesday and
in Madison Square to find him
self famous. Europe accepted the YER
diet OF our town, and now the Pole with
the auburn hair is as popular In Eng
land and the Continent as he is in Amer
lea After the original Boston damper on
his hopes Paderewski's torture grew like
Jacks bean stalk. The receipts OF his
first American season were $4,000. the
second brought him 100000, the third
s24S, 900, thus doubling his income every
year. AT that rate his tournee this win
ter should take In half a million dollars;
but it is not believed that our people are
prepared to pay SO much this year even
for Paderewski. IF he can have $25oOOo
this season the Pole should be satishea. 4
Most of it is profit Beyond advertising'
the managers salary and the rent oil
hall he has few expenses. and almost
every dollar going into the box office iinds
its way into his pocket. If his usual
luck follows him this winter PaderewsK'
will earn $4,000 recital, $4,000 an hour.
or about $40 every time he lays his fingers
on the keys. Jean de Reszke, Nine.
Melba and Nine Sembrich are not SO
we'll paid; and in comparison with pane
rewskis earnings Lillian Russell IS IN me
last extremity Of starvation Yet 'sne
doesn't look H.
Here Is bright bit of stage rhyme sung
by David Warield at Weber & Field $
theater in New York:
Here's TO champagne, the drink divine
yet ntlf
It's made of dollars worth OF VINE
And three dollars worth of bubbles
~
A Washington paragraph says that the
man who thinks he can make play OF
David Harum" must have had expe 'lence
in spreading the butter on the buns Tor a
church social.
Plays and Players.
Nethersole used to be goyerness
James X. Hackett is to produce the
Pride of Jernico" In Baltimore TINS week.
Johnny and Emma Ray will use new
piece next season, the work OF winner
and Vincent.
zangwills Children OF the Ghetto
was Kissed and applauded In London on
Monday last The piece was withdra~n
! ana the company ~ 49,
States on "Wednesday.
The first OF the Transvaal war plays
has already been produced in London. II
! &c called "Oueen or Country and Arthur
Shirley wrote it.
"The Surprises of Love" is the title o
the new comedy from the Fren>h ina
Charles Frohman will shortly produce
with Miss Elsie De Wolf in the leadin'
role
AS souvenirs marking the one hundredu
performance of 1.-THE Singing Girl at tn
New York Casino, December %, cut glas
powder boxes with silver tops bearlni
/ pictures of Alice Nielsen will be giyei
away.
Belasco's production of Naughty An
tbony" will be done Christmas week a
Washington with cast that inclnoe
blanche Bates. Maud Harrison Olive Red
path. Mary Barker, Frank Worthing, W
, J. lie Moyne, William Elton and samue
Edwards.
For over a century the Choiseul tamil
has had the right to box at the Parl
opera comique. The box was original
granted by Louis XVI in 1871 TO the Du
de Choseul In consideration of his havln
5 built the original Opera Comique at hi
t own expense.
NJ Becky Sharp" by Mrs. Minnie Mad
s dern Fiske and her company at the Fit
: Avenue theater. New York. was given 0
: Monday last. A book containing synoT
r sis OF the play and numerous sketcnt
y from 1t was distributed as souvenir.
y ~ do not believe" says Nethersol
!, "that there Is any profession brlstlln
!, with SO many difficulties and dtawbac'
= as the dramatic profession, and II a
}. tounds me to hear of novices lightly ar
g cheerfully abandoning excellent prospes
= in other walks of life to take up ar
!. matte career which. shorn OF it' poss
II bilities (Which come only 10 very lew
h is a most heart wearying and spirl
10 breaking business.
IS "Thirtv wears ago Nellie McHenry' sa,
IT Charles Alfred Byrne, was the peer
IS any woman in this country, But she 3
IS older. though the couple had accumuiat
~ move than 100000. she would persist
10 heinp star, and little by little this mon'
lie disanpeared until finally poor John we
ster thoroughly discouraged at the ou
come of IL ALL and a little bit frustrat
II as To his own outcome, went to Maya
Falls and threw himself in that awf
n cataract"
Take Julia Marlowe and Robert Tai
as an example. Here is supposeu W
the sweetest eAaiuPie v, i -.
: stage. yet she gets divorce In Yermo
n m the ground OF cruelty. And Taber
q a man who wouldn't put his foot on
a worm willingly. | saw some kind OF
Ia story that this woman was going to mar
' Charlie Dillingham; her manager. former
!, the husband OF Jennie Yeamans, and tn
It might explain good many Things
ID Brooklyn Citizen.
3 Dorothy Usner. Of the why smith -
/ Home" company. has sent In her resign
a ton. effective January J. sne mas
70 definitely decided wnat she VIZ W -
- leaving the Broadhursts.
10 n Barrie's play 1.-THE Two Kin
~ wamen." is to be presented befe
= iopr In the London Duke OF York's' y
- .s,d IN he serious comedy OF high ]
70 erary quality. 1t tells the story OF a mi
- riags and its consequences and starts