The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03

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prise some of the best known people.
and the engagement promises TO be a
notable one.
STORIES ABOUT PLAYERS.
In Chicago at the present time there
Is not one 80 house" as the favored
theatres are described in the veruaeu-
lar OF the theatre, says Burns Mantle
| In the Inter-Ocean. Tut cut in New
York is equally notjcea bic, though the
/ favorites with following, notably
Miss Adams, the Weberfields, Gillette
and a few, a very few, others, cling to
the s. schedule.
An. ha. He. he Oh, no. shouts the
public
An angelic. martyr-Iil1e expression
o'er-spreads the managerial counte-
nance.
To the victor belongs the laugh. But
VINO Is the victor? For several years
the managers have been piIing up their
profits through the unjust increase in
the price Of admission TO their play
/ houses. When the boom i'm entertain
meat began Juggling at the guy ropes
the smiling arbisers of the dramas fate
{ attacked the price list with q greed
that was unbecOmiUg; they added
quarter TO the gallery, a half dollar to
( the parqUet and smiled and smiled and
smiled as the. business kept on bound
/ ing.
/ After the birth Of the s. star the
profits accumulated until the strong
! boxes bulged. The interest paid on the
capital and the brains invested in the
theatrical business was compounded
daily, and the powers continued To
smile and to expand. There was a
boom IN country places and plain
I farms, yachts. and automobiles, city
! homes and foreign travel. The pubic
wanted 20 dance aud proceeded to pay
/ the smiling fiddlers.
In the last eight years theatrical for
! tunes have doubled faster than ever
/ they did in real estate. Julia MarloWe
/ has enough money in bank and in real
! estate securities to tide her over many
/ a winter on the Mediterranean, ana
! her managers took a good per cent or
/ what she made Viola Allen added six
! figures to the bank account of the Lieb-
| lers with Tine Christian, and took al
most as much more for herself.
Mrs Carter has helped David Be
lasco build what is probably the most
! artistic playhouse in New York, where
! they have 80 blast them out of rocks
and build them during strikes. ana stu
retains a balance in bank for little
Dolly Dudley that viii keep whole
packs OF wolves q { the garden gate for
years 10 come. Maude Adams rested
year. but her annual income had been
something like $4,000 for the several
years preceding that 50 what cares
she2 The ducks and the geese on her
I Long Island farm are not suffering.
As for the men-well, their financial
/ condition doesn't compare very well
with that of the women in the long
run. but they have done very well.
/ Richard Mansfield. for instance, be
( lieves that he will have enough on
which to retire in another three or
/ four or FIVE years. At present his in
! come varies. Sometimes IL drops TO
/ the ridiculously low figure of $4,000
/ q season. then again. when money is
more free. IL passes the si0o,099 mark.
/ Joseph jefferson, with a short tour,
/ the dear old repertoire, a small COM
pany, and careful managers, makes so
! much money that his conscience VIII
not let him keep it, Recently he di-
/ vided S3j. coo Jhis seasons profitsD
/ among his boys, saying that he wanted
: 10 use his own millions TO settle his
= grocery bills and buy fishing tackle.
/ William Gillette may hide his in his
/ boathouse, the Aunt Polly, or he may
4 bury it on his country place, down in
/ the North Carolina hills. but wherever
! he puts it there must be a pile, for
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/ for quite a spell. W. H. Crane, John
/ Drew. T. II. Sothern-but why con-
/ tinuee Our players have taken full
/ advantage OF the abundant prosperity
/ that pushed up the price Of orchestra
/ seats.
And the nanagers2 Charles Froh-
man has something Ike a dozen the
/ aires in New York. in which he is the
principal stakeholder, and half as many
more in London. The extension OF the
/ Nixon < zimmerman and Klaw &
/ Erlanger interests * OF too recent and
/ too frequent discussion to mention
/ BelaSco has q theatre and the Fishes
i have a theatre. New playhouses have
/ been built in every important city in
/ the country, some by managers of ex-
! perience. others by novices. Some of
+ our local managers have done SO well
/ that they have been obliged to invest
l IN other cities in order TO keep their
/ capital moving TO advantage.
/ And so it is well that we stop and
/ ask; Who is the victor IN this mat
/ ter? The public may laugh heartily
7 at the efforts OF the managers TO get
/ in where IT is dry before the rain
/ descends and the floods come; fl may
i hold it's sides and whisper that at last
the s. attraction has busted. and
! that reasonable prices are bound to
return and prevail for all time to
I come-but the players and their tour
/ directors can look back with positive
! glee on the success of their s. stars.
j The hum0T of Arthur Sidman. who
/ wrote York State Folks. but did not
1 live 10 see it the success among rural
/ comedies that il has become. had the
! distinct virtue of being at all times hui
/ man. For instance. after stern old ST.
! mon Peter Martin mad quarreied with
his lifelong frierd, Myron Cooper. the
( latter. preferring peace above all else.
/ attempts to reason with him. The sit
uation is at its tensest as Myron be-
4 gins:
Now, look here. Simon Peter. amt
/ you ashamed of yourself2 / be. Jest
think what folks are sayin' about us.
Why, even old Lige Harris come up to
me the other day and told me I'd made
! a fool OF myself. And Lige amt no
more n half baked himseif.'.
No reply from the stubborn Simon
! Peter.
But what he said about me amt
nothin' to what he said about YOU I
told him. SEE I: You oughtn't to be
too hand on Simon Peter: ne don't mean