The record-union., 1899-12-10

be willing to make the salary $500 q
week In that case he takes into ac-
count the public value of the name and
makes a feature of it in his advertise
ments. Not more than ten actors in
America, aside from the stars, receive
as much as, $3.50 week, and not more
than five actresses are paid this
amount. In fact, $50 week is ex-.
ceptional and 500 will engage an ex-
cellent hero or heroine, fine comedi-
an, or a delineator of eccentric char
acter The wages run down to $75 for
a soubrette.. ingenue or old man, to 500
for an old woman. Juvenile man or jul
venile woman, and SO along to utility
and chorus men and women at 81 to
S1S week. Those are the wages OF
thoroughly competent actors in COM
panies of good grade
The acting Of the Earl of Yarmouth
on the occasion of the much heralded
debut is pronounced neither good nor
bad enough to attract attention. When
he was called out before the curtain he
was scared. Consequently, he does not
appear from report to have either the
genius or the assurance necessary for
a brilliant success.
Miss Beatrice Morgan has joined the
Lyceum TheRter stock company, and
for the present will understudy Miss
Mary Mannering. but it is understood
that Mr. Frohman intends to give her
prominent part in one of his early
productions. Miss Morgan is the
daughter of Matt Morgan, the cele-
brated painter. She attracted much at
tention at the New York Bijou recently
in I'm Paradise
"Plaisir d'Amour,' which is said to
be the first genuine success Of the sea-
son in Paris, is a three act farce by
Maurice Froyez and George Colias. The
fun of the piece consists in the adven-
lures of Campestrel, a clerk in life
insurance office, who is sent out, in
company with the supposed widow of
man who has gone abroad and been
missing for two years, in search of news
of his death, before paying the amount
of the policy to Maud, the charming
American widow. Finally, Jack Bor-
cheston, the missing husband, turns up.
marriage and a subsequent divorce,
both by means of the monograph are
among the startling originalities of
"Plaisir d Amour and there is a clev-
erly arranged yachting scene.
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"The Rose Brilliants'' has been Sc
lected as the title Of the stage version
of Lorna Doone," which, it is said,
will be acted first in London, although
it is the work of Algernon Taskin, an
American actor. Not long ago a play
made from this popular romance by r.
D. e Blaekmore, its author, was an
nouneed, and he has given notice that
he intends to protect his rights in the
work. So the American made play may
not be seen in England. .
There is something mournful in the
answer that Nine. Janauschek made to
reporter who asked her why she did
not return to her former home in Eu-
rope, where her first great renown
was made. "Ah,'' she said, you do
not understand. I left Europe in my
prime. No one was too famous or too
rich to come to see me. Now am old.
1 have not even good health, 1 must not
return to my home this way. Besides
there is no use. I shall not be on the
stage much longer"
1.-THE Visit is French play that
tells the story of a man whose wife had
such a mania for moving the furniture
around that no room looked the same
for two days. He was methodical in
his habits, and reduced to seeking a
divorce on the ground of incompati-
bility of temperament. They met again
through matrimonial agency, and are
about to be reunited when the woman