The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-18
PROSPEROUS DRAMATIC SEASON
what Some of the Success ul Stars
Have Earned.

what Some Of the Success .ul Stars
Have Earned.
/ The New York dramatic season
winch is now nearing it's close has
been most gratifying one. with nm
| merous and long continued successes.
ana few-and not grossly disastrous
/ taliures. Some plays, to be sure fsays
the New York Herald), have been dis
/ appointments to patrons and managers
anu nave been quickly and quietly in
TERED, but, as whole. and in tho yo,r
great majority of cases. public ana
| players have had good reason 70 no
satlshed with what they have Jointly
accomplished, delightfully."- on The staga
ana generously at the box-office. Until
hgures are scanned one hardly reaIizes
the millions of dollars paid in at the
theaters of the country this season
The chronic disbeliever in box-office
statements, the pessimist who always
declares that two and two makes six
when figures are prepared in the hoy
once to be given out for publication
VIII tell you that the sums stated are
gross eXaggera tionS
=.
when you take such stars as Mauda
Adams, Mrs. Carter Viola Allan oIuo
Nethersole and her much belabored
sapho," Anna Held, Julia Marlowe.
Minnie Madden Fiske, Messrs. Mans
| field. Sothern, Hackett. Goodwin
crane, and others. and such plays as
| Ben Hur,'' it is we'll known that thew
nave done an enormous business. and
gerating their receipts. They are quite
big enough as they are. They serve
| however, to show what a satisfactory
dramatic year it has been all over the
country, for just as these top liners"
nave been enjoying more prosperity
than ever, so have the theaters general
ly had dramatic year of unusual
prosperity.
Maude Adams has finished her sea-
son, and forever laid aside eThe LITTLE
| Minister" after playing it. in the last
| three years of her stellar career. Sal
times. to total gross receipts of over
$1,00O,000. It's first run of 300 perforu
ances in New York brought in s37O
900; and this season, when she return
ed, playing at the Criterion, II perform
ances realized s79,574. While she was
''on the road $1,000 was a conservative
average on one night stands. Even out
in Omaha she played two nights to 81
300. What the royalties of Mr. Barrie.
the fortunate author, have been is not
known but at ten per cent they were
over 100000. Mr.. Charles Frohman is
so liberal with playwrights Che paid
Bronson Howard over 100000
for one years royalties on
,,Hn
that Mr.. Barrie's receipts have been
nearer two than one hundred thousand
dollars from THE Little Minister" in
the three years.
The enormous success of Ben Hur,
is known to everybody. To those who
want to be told exactly how big it has
been it may be said that Its 1874 per-
formances have totaled close to s4OO, 900.
In one week it took in s19,O15, and four
weeks averaged over $4,000 week
Mrs. Carter has been another great
money winner this season with "Zaza,"
173 performances in American figuring
up $4,000. Olga Nethersole, despite
her legal woes and the enforced closing
OF Wallack's for a considerable period.
is going Nome to England with what is
called "a pot of money! "Sapho" hav-
ing played to from $1,000 to $4,000 a
week. To break rum" theatrical
tradition says, is to ruin luck, but since
'Sapho" has been resumed at Wallack's
the houses have been over $4,000 a
week. Her biggest week here was &c.
581, and out West the high-water mark
was $15,076 in ST. Louis.
Anna Held was looked on as only
a cafe chantant singer" and when she
sod 70 etc
people laughed, and the more polite
raised their eyebrows and said Real
ly?" 1t seems to have been really
for the 131 performances of "Papa's
Wife," mostly given In New York to
standing room only" have totaled
$4,000
E. H. Sothern and James K. Hackett
have had a fine season, also, and under
Daniel Frohman's management have
steadily maintained the favor with
which they were received when he first
exploited them as stars. the Pride of
Jennico" is still filling the Criterion.
where Mr.. Hackett's weeks have aver
aged $4,000. including the perceptible
falling off in the Lenten period Mr..
Sothern has played 1.-The Kings Musk
eteer" and THE Song of the Sword to
Sunken Beil'' to $1,000, while many
weeks have run much higher, for in
stance, $4,000 in one week in Chicago.
Richard Mansfeld's season, as every
one knows, has been an immensely
successful one. What his total takings
have been is not stated, but they were
almost phenomenal.
The first season of Daniel Frohman's
management of Days is worth refer
ring to, as good many Dalyites doubt
ed IL Days successor would prove a
success. He has, for though the trars-
fer of theater to new hands Is alwavs
in some small degree a beginning III
over again to build up a clientele. the
season has run to an average of $1,000.
Sothern's plays and THE Manoeuvers
of Jane and THE Ambassador ran
TO s10,50O, and THE Runaway Girl to
$4,000 in the week.
With these pointers to start on. you
can figure up the season generally for