The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-22

my waist line has entirely disappeared.
It's fine"
Another speaker was Heinrich Con-
reid, who has plan for adding rev
enue to the Actors home fund through
the taxation of theatre "deadheads.
BY careful inquiry" said the inn
presariO, Il have aEeeTtained that there
are about 5,o09 theatres and concert
halls doing business in this country,
and that they are open, on the aver
age 100 nights year. ] have also as
certained that about five passes, or
ten free seats, are issued for every
performance. ON this basis figure
that If each seat is taxed 10 cents the
actors fund viii get thereby the sum
of $500 000 annuailElf
Il propose that this tax be placed
not for this year, OF for ten years. bur
indefinitely. At the end OF ten years.
If figures do not lie, the fund ought 20
have S3,390,0Qe All this money would
come with almost no sacrifice on the
part Of the givers, $50 little would any
one person have Go pay. You know
there are many habituaI theatre oers
VINO get their enjoyment i'm pIayhouses
for nothing I mean the class of peo-
pie who are usually called 'deadheads'
These are the ones who ] think should
contribute to the actors fund ."
Mr.. Conried went ON to say that the
plan involved no iuQuisiti0H into the
private affairs Of managers, that every
one would be trusted 10 give over the
taxes, on passes. and that the maxi
NUNS contribution for one night would
be 81, though more than ten seats be
issued. Since the Association of The
alter Managers has already passed the
suits.
Ezra Kendall started it. He wrote
Joke books and made cOusidera BILE
money with them. Now alI the come
oians are doing it. Eddie Toy is writ
ing a book. De Wolf Hopper is writing
book. Peter Daley may sell out his
cigar business and buy pens and ink
and paper with the proceeds.
-Hopper's book is To be called. Land
lords Who Have Met Me-" Among
other things which viii be in this
DOCK, says the long comedian. ARE
recipes for one night stand coffee and
'pr0uy' chicken croquetes out OF beef,
mutton, and hog scraps, and the best
way 20 shake up a COrucOb mattress SO
the weary traveller will not have more
than 800 holes worn through his cuticie
as result of one nights sleeping"
Eddie Toys literary ambition is a
secret. SO the press agent of the Casino
papers AS there were many rumors
as to the character OF the book, some
saying that 1t vas a bank book others
a note book. still others a hand book.
and again a pocket book, we have
traced this work 90 its lair. A genuine
work Of literature &c Is TO be. and it's
publishers, the Arkell Publishing com
pany, have entitled it, Just Fun 10
viii nave a large picture of Mr.. FOy
pa serious costume on the front page.
That Viii De funny.
Although Foy is ahead OF him about
three laps, Hopper has started writing,
and claims that he viii have his book
finished and published before Foy has
sold a copy of his. There ought not to
be any trouble about that, and Hopper
can take his time.
After the second act of "Lohengrin. %
rs given By the Carl Rosa Opera COM
pany i'm the Grand theatre. Southamp-
ton, England. recently, this conversa-
tion was heard between two occupants
Of the pit:
say BIN what do you think Of it?'
Jolly fine
All, you afn'f seen it afore. have
No"
You just wait until Che nest act
lJ grand j OuE re got TO see matey
go away ON the duck yet
A Partisan playwright has made the
way clear for Charles Frohman to
again take up the question Of touring
Maude Adams and Sarah BeTuharGt in
Romeo and Juliet" He has written
a play. half i'm English aud half in
French. which is 20 be used Jointly by
Lewis Waller, the English actor, and
Madame Beiaue. the French actress.
THESE two prominent stage IOlk-each
of whom has rather more than smat-
tering of the others language
great friends. They have wanted for
some time to appear together. but b.
was only recently that the previously
mentioned Partisan playwright who Isl
q mutual friend of the two stars Found
means Of placing them ON am equal
footing by writing "a piece tar their use,
half in English and half in French
Midway in the action the British hero