The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-11
Che Pdrlcf Entertainers.
Professionals Who Are Ready to Supply Anything From
Performing Dogs to Grand Opera Stars Big
Prices Are Paid and vaudevilles We'll
come the Fashion.

another appeared in the drawing room
in full sight and hearing of the guests
and gave his or her speciality One was
clever darkey performer, another
funny Irishman. a third parlor aero
bat who performs in conventional
dress, a fourth a pretty serio-comlc
singer and fifth a gretesque dancer.
The affair proved very happy sur
prise and both husband and guests
were delighted. The expense came TO
about $3.50. A similar surprise was pro-
duced by a well known clubman. He
belongs to a group of old friends who
meet at regular intervals as the guests
of a dinner given by one OF their
number There is a rivalry among
them as TO who shall give the oldest
and most picturesque banquet. One of
the dinners for example, was given on
the roof of a down town sky scraper,
another on a barge in the middle of the
bay. and a third in a cellar where great
blocks of ice and mounds of cracked
ice initiated the Arctic home of north
ern explorers.
Great Prices Paid.
rs much money expended in matters
of this sort?"
"A great deal, the amount depending
upon the class to which the performers
belong. The prices paid to great must
cal stars is very large. This is mainly
the result of European customs. Cele-
brated singers are invited to perform
before the crowned heads of Europe
and receive either a check for big
amount of money or else some supert
piece of jewelry. / am told that the
car has never given performer q
gem or jewel worth less than $500 In
this country the practice is to give q
check Madame Calve receives $1,000
for sin inc Qf n 6roNt
ton. Ysaye, the violin virtuoso. gets
81, 500. The vanderbilts paid Edouarc
de Reske $1,000 Campanini. at the
height of his popularity, received from
New York millionaire $1,000 for -four
songs. Max Heinrich, the lieder singer
gets $3.50. Victor Maurel, the baritone
receives 81, 000 Plancon, $500, and En-
ma Games 81 900.
THE vaudeville people do not get
such fancy prices, although they are
steadily rising in the social and finan-
cial scale. In the old years they were
comics. and were rarely invited to par
lors. They are known now as vaude-
villers, and are popular in neary every
drawing room. One curious fact has
been remarked. and that is the per-
sistence of the old prejudice against va
riety actresses Many wealthy men
hire vaudeville performers, but will not
allow a woman artist to cross their
threshold l don't understand it. be-
cause the women are just as. clever as
the men, and in many instances are
much more attractive. One of the most
popular vaudeville women is Alice Ath-
erton, who receives 500 for her famous
laughing song"
How do lecturers and readers make
out?'
Rather poorly" replied the agent,
''the trouble being that there are too
many of them and the resulting conn.,
petition has cut down the prices In
general it may be said that people wish
ing to be entertained either want great
stars or else great Oddities Xlyophones
are popular. tumbler onicons are al
ways in demand. sleigh bell perform
ers and musical mokes. Now and then
there is special demand for a Scotch
bagpiper or an old fashioned Irish piper
and sometimes a first class hand or
gan and monkey is brought in to please
the little, folks.
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