Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-04
ADE WORRIED BY
TOO MUCH CASH
DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
WITH HIS MONEY
PREFERS IT TO MATRIM0NY
PIaywrieht's Earnings for the Year
Are $15o,ooo-WiII Have Ten
Companies on the Road
This Season
PREFERS IT TO MATRIMoNY

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-George AIDE Is
getting rich so fast he doesn't know
what to do with his money. A conser-
vative estimate of his earnings this year
is $150,OOo. In the coming season he will
have ten companies on the road paying
him royalties. This is a record which.
it Is believed, has not been equaled by
any other American playwright.
Ade went to friend a few days ago
and confessed confidentially to him that
he was in a quandary to know what to
do with the money that is pouring in on
him.
Get married." his friend advised.
''Then your money will go fast enough"
AIDE smiled.
"If it's a question of money or matri-
mony." he said, "give me the money"
Books Are Moneymakers
In addition to the royalties from his
plays Ade will receive remuneration
from seven books, and he has just con-
tracted to write a story embracing
nearly all the rural types in his diff
ferent plays. He will also have play
let, "On His Uppers,'' at vaudeville
houses. Two companies will appear in
"The College Widow" two in "The
County Chairman and one each In
The Sultan of Sulu," Peggy From
Ga
maritan" and Just Out of College"
"On His Uppers'' is to have it's first
performance September at Keith's
theater. The play is in AIDES finest
fable vein, and on the strength of. a
single rehearsal it has been booked in
vaudeville for the entire season. For
couple of years managers have been
pestering AIDE to write play around
the characters in his fables. He was
pleaded with to create a comedy of the
broadest slang, but Ade remained firm
in refusal, saying that while the slang
was natural to his fables 1t was not the
feature he desired prominent in play.
Tries an Experiment
Mason Peters, the right hand man oil
Henry w. Savage, suggested the vaude-
vile stage, and AIDE consented to writs
a playlet as an experiment
AIDE lays the plot of "On His Uppers"
in the Chicago residence of Mrs.
Grandson. A wight named Fred Parlee
drifts into Chicago, penniless and al
most in rags. Parlee has been race
track follower; he has made and lost
fortunes Just now his luck is at the
lowest ebb. He resolves somehow or
other to corner enough money to take
him back to Broadway.
Mrs Grandson has planned a great
entertainment for her friends. and to
her residence goes Parlee, seeking en-
ployment as performer. saying he has
a performance second to none in origin
ality.
When the curtain rises Parlee and the
butler are together. Parlee has become
somewhat timid of himself and thinks
it might be wise precaution to re-
hearse He goes through a series Of
tricks in a way distinctly novel.
Butler Has Thinking Part
He is surprised that the butler shows
no sign of enthusiasm and at last learns
the man is deaf and dumb. Then Mrs.
Grandson walks in. Parlee, at sight
of the woman, draws himself stiff in
astonishment. The woman herself stops
and looks amazed. Finally Parlee
starts forward with his hands extended.
''Why, Lizzie" he exclaims, "is it
you? What are you doing here?"
1t is Lizzie, sure enough, the girl from
whom Parlee used to buy cigars in the
days of his greatest prosperity in
Sheepshead Bay. She is still the same
good fellow" and she grasps the mans
hands and calls him Fred" She tells
him that one day a rich miner came
along to buy cigars from her, and the
couple became we'll enough acquainted
to get married. They went west, and
one day a beam in a mine fell on the
miner and Lizzie was left widow.
The sum of their experiences told,
somehow sentiment catches the couple,
and after some fencing and billing and
cooling Lizzie bestows her heart, hand
and fortune on Fred. Then they fly
back to Broadway.