Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-01
Stories and Gossip
Of the Stage.
100000.

If it were possible for Nine. Patti or
Nine. Melba to earn money for "a whole
year at the same rate as at a private mu-
sicale, they, would each quail
Moray fy as Il millionaire. white only
'o"' singing for live hours d day
and and Glowing themselves u
Song. complete holiday, for twelve
weeks out OF the iifty-two.
says London TidbIts. Nine.
Melba. at Il recent fashionable musicale
in London, received $50 for singing three
only twenty minutes. it is clear JElt the
gifted songsJress was eNchangLnE her
hour, or no tess than SIC 1873 al every tiIac
the secondhand of her watch completed one
circuit.
Compared with this revenue the incomes
of the ear and shah. colossal as they are,
sink into insigniIcauce for the ears rev
enue for a minute IS less than a ID note:
less than Gl2.
Lord Salisbury draws from the exchequer
mint with ner Voice in a single minute In
i've minutes she can earn the yearly salary
entire yearly income OF The briLSh cabinet.
In eight hours, at this rate of gold and
voice production. she can earn her weight
III sovereiSns, ana in 100 hours her VOICE
could place her among the worlds million
aires. our queens entire revenue available
for personal use IS less than a2Uo.V1v 1 year.
win for herself by singing four hours Il
dav for a little over seven weeks.
tIiaCe tanrrtWSEl can tlll.t SONerclSnS
with almost oqua! rapl.ity with MS dexter
Gus fingers as Mines. Media and Patti with
their voices. This "kiGS Of the piano" re-
Ceived no less than G5JJ for playing recent
" at the house of one of our West md
masnates. Assuming that he was at the
piano for 4 full hour, which is probably
in excess of fact. he was coming SOW
crcigns at the rate of over eight Il minute
and if he had been paid in gold for his
entertainment, his pockets would have been
weighed down with eight and three-luar-
ter pounds Of gold: while he might have
walked from the drawing room door TO mis-
cab on a line of soyereigns he had earned.
Young Josef Hoffman appeared only
once last year st L private house. but re
was 500 The richer for the evenings VEN
tUre. 4 boy. who can earn Il SO note IN
three minutes may regard the future with
confidence.
1t is a little curious to find that waile
Nine. Media received $500 for singing three
songs, her payment for n full performance
When Nine. Scmhrich sang recently before
q New York club she was rewarded by a
payment Of $50, or roughly. SO Il minute.
She considered the amount Inadequate.
however. and made II clear that she could
not sing again under a much higher fee.
None. Calve was paid goo for singing at
the house of a city maGnate. and Nine.
Nordica's fee for appearing in private is
never less than $40. Even Svette Gull
bert. the pet of the Paris music halls. de-
| clincs TO sing in a private drawing room
for playing in a twenty minutes comedy
at the house of 4 millionaire.
Harry Gilfoil. who has given himself n
big boost In his profession by his por-
trayal of an antiduated rounder in "A
Stranger In New York" made his first
appearance in a Hoyt comedy in 4 minor
part in a Hole in the Ground" and was
understudy TO Frank Lawton. whose spe-
cialty was at that time 4 stage novelty.