The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-19

freeman came UP to me. took my part
cut OF my hand and said:
guess there has been some mis-
take Mr. Brady You won't do.
II gave the part to George Osborn
OSBORN Is IN my Lovers Lane com
pahy now. I wen back behind the
scenes and cried like a baby. My
nearI was broken. Fred w Bert who
at that time was the manager of the
tneatre and who is now my cOnhden-
lldl ADVISER, noticed me and spoke TO
fe-nan about me. To console me r
was made call boy at $40 a week. Two
weeks later William II. Thompson. who
- now playing the Cardinal in A
Hoydi tam1Iy with Annie Russell. got
SICK, ana they wanted some one for
MS part-Nitchez Jim. I said I could
do il, and they tried me. | was Kent
IN the part Two weeks later 1 was
MADE assistant stage manager. Two
weeks later Max Freeman left and I
was made stage manager.
IN six weeks 1 was sent out on the
Foad 70 produce plays for the California
theatre / worked for four years on
the foad-most of the time with Joseph
IL Grismer. who is now my partner.
duced an kinds Of plays.
IN san francisco | was prOmpter
Tor and played small parts with Ed
WIN Booth. the elder SalvinI, Law
renee, Barrett. Rossi, MOdjeska. w. E.
sheridan. Louis Morrison. Dion Boucf-
cauIt and ever so many more. Maude
Adams n Ada Lewis were making SIS
a week each as ballet girls in Frisco
In 1888 I started out with my own
company, was 20 years old and
thouSnt I knew it all The mpan
was called the Webster-Brady com /
pany, and we had fifteen plays. Some
OF tnem we oWned-and some we didn't. /
Al that time Rider Haggard's She !
was all the rage / read it. and one 4
afternoon in Reno. New, I dramatfzed i
o me four hours with the
ana OF a Ste~nographer.
Three. weeks later we produced if |
IN Los angeles. 1t was ii big hit. Our
receipts Jumped ct once from $50 TO
eoyV 2 nlght I Immediately bought
ten tickets for the east and
my intention Of swooping down on
New York.
we worked east to st. Paul. / was
IN there and.I ran up against
a man named McGeachy. who had
been sent out by Charles Frobu7an
Al ~Eaynlan and William Gillette to
mead me off and drive me out of bust
ness 4hey had a big She company
and didn't want any rivals.
'McGeachy prepared a big advertise
Iaeht FOR the St Paul papers and said
we We're transformer and had a fake
4 wrote an advertisement fust I
we as Dig and they were printed TO-
gether. The house was packed at the
openlng and we did a big business.
nad McGeachy jailed for criminal libel
zoo. we got as far as Chicago and
tnen went back to San Francisco.
IN 1880 l bought After Dark from
B0ucieault for $1,000. L bought
a lawsuit with 1t, but didn't know thar
until afterward. I opened with it all
the Peoples theatre on the ROwerv
LII Daly got. u an injunc-
non because ne GAINED the railroad
scene was his.
We fought that, suit Tor eleven
ears ana IT was only. finally decided
tItef Daly died. ] lost and paid his I,
estate a Judgment of $500. The Iftipa
ion cost me in all about s4O.0 GOO brf
season. +,
After that I came to the front pref
IapI1iy Corbett was playing in
AFTER Dark at a salary of s1I5 q ,
NSeh; TOOK MIN and challenged the :
World with him. 1 had lost nearly an :
money, and When Sullivan accepted ;
ne CHdiIenge i put up about all / had :
- "a - HEst forfeit money-$2.500 I :
Norbetts training expenses and !
iao q play written for him as cham- :
ion of the world.
me play was billed in Birmingham I
NJ before the Eight came off. sept. ;
1917 l made 800, 600 as nv share in :
ne hrst year and made a great deaf :
1 money later with Corbett. did y
the same thing with Jeffrfes- =
nun champion of the world and Z
100000 profit in a wear. \
But 1 found plenty of ways tn. lose :
~ money again, n all I made from Z
le hShters slipped away from me :
I've Edoe 100000 this year out of my y
way Down East companies eTTncIo ;
oms Cabin paid $40 600 the frsf :
eek The Lovers Lane producfio1 y
money maker, too 1t was reject =
by halI the managers in New York Z
. was way Down East and if has :
So nIore money this year than any \
20 dramatic attractions. barring Ben II