El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15

Second Mrs. Tanqueray," in which the
actress had never before been seen in
| New York. The success of this ex-
| pertinent was instantaneous. Camille
| was then revived, with a novel feature
| in the fact that the costumes of the
period in which it was written were
| worn.
| 1t has been possible to obtain an
| approximate statement of the earnings.
which "Cyrano" has made for Mr..
Mansfield. He began in Washington
city about the LIST OF October, and has
already played nearly twenty weeks.
he receives 60 per cent of the net re-
ceipts, and at no time has his proper
lion been less than $4,000 a week. He
las, therefore, received since the fall
=eason began, about 100000, and if
he is able to play until the season
closes, his total earnings will probably
reach $15O,000 On the authority Of
those who should know, it is stated
that, with the exception of Booth, Joe
Jefferson and Henry Irving, no actor
who has ever played in the United
States has gained SO large a sum of
money as this for one seasons work.
Fannie Davenport's counsel says that
her earnings for one season when she
played La Tosca" netted 500, OOO-
"Trilby" made more money in the first
year when it was on the road than
"Cyrano" has done. But that was be-
cause the owner of the play was wise
enough to harvest when the field was
riTs. and he therefore put three or four
,fO~ -
the profits for the first year was $780,
0CG. but would have been much larger
had it not been for the fact that he
was compelled to pay the royalties Of
both Du Maurier and to the owners of
the copyright of the story of "Trilby."
Mr.. Mansfield's earnings however, rep
resent the share that an actor who did
not possess the exclusive right to pro-
duce the play in America received. OF
course some of the most perfect vocal
organs, such as Calve or Melby, or
Emma Eames or Sembrich, or Jean de
Rezke have brought to their possessors
ropoTtionately larger sums. PATHS
earnir gs one season in the United
States were nearly quarter of a mil
ion, and Jean de Reszke received for
1ne season here $4,000.
In Because She Loved Hin So'' at
he Madison Square theater we have a
TYPICAL French farce with the one point
# exec ption that it is thoroughly clean
md entirely devoid of suggestiveness.
there is young wife who is intensely
nd grotesquely jealous of her hus-
and. She has younger brother, who
5 about to be married to the daughter
# a dean, whose solitary adherence
5 anything in the way of a domestic
Gene. She has also father and moth
r who have lived an idyllic life for
hirty years, without shadow of any
ind. The wife, imagining she has
ause OF quarrel, declares she will Sc
ure a divorce, and goes home to her
arents. The husband starts by the
anne tt ain, in order that he may not
e misrepresented by his angry spouse.
he old people, hearing of the ap-
reaching pair, decide to pretend they,
20, are violently estranged, with the
lea that they will show by example
ow absurd such wrangles are; and
hen their daughter and son-in-law ar
we, they find the aged and normally
miable couple in tremendous up
BAR. This is kept up in an exceeding
1udicrous fashion until the very end
the piece, when matters are ingen-
'usly ard satisfactorily adjusted.