The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-21
1--we roPICs ABoUT TOWN.

One Of the actresses In a current musical
comedy is drawing the phenomenal salary
of 81 ,O0ou week She knows she's not worth
1t and so do her managers. But they were
IN funk last spring when they engaged her
and she was able TO make her own terms
In vain they have attempted to provoke
her into breaking her contract. Her part
has been shortened, her songs have been
cut ana her business altered but these
prCoee dings have aroused no remembrance
from IL" actress She Is bland and ac-
connodatint. and goes rignt along sereney
acting ana singing her part--and craving
her 81, 900 a week which Is by her contract
TO continue for five .Ionths more
Albert Saleza Is soon to attempt oour-
ageous act. He is going To sing Lohen9T"
in German For four years he has been
preparing himself for this ordeal and he Is
said TO deliver the text with wonderful
clearnsss. He does not speak the language
however. any more than does Pol Plangon,
who has been singing in German for sone,
years. Jean and Edouard de heszke coulu
scarcely speak German when they began 70
sing it at the Metropolitan and they simply
learned the text and its general significance
NJ, Saleza Is singing L0hengrin as q prelimi-
nary to the role he il most anxious 70 be
heard n--that of WdPher in Die Meister-
singer" for which he viii next begin to
prepare himself
One of New York's wealthy citizens
maintains for his own pleasure quartet
quite In the style Of a century ago. He is
fond OF quartet playing and keeps these
musicians always in his service. They
play for him in New York and accompany
him to Europe when he goes abroad FOR the
summer He il thus enabled to have his
chamber music at any time he wants It and
81 f.4r,f in n
that they are able at all times TO play to his
satisfaction
An Irish servant walked into a Fifth
avenue bookstore.
"Oi want copy of Mulcahy's Lays,
he said.
Never heard Of it. said the clerk.
The mssus said you'd know the book.
It's something about ould Rome.
"Youmust mean Lays OF Ancient Rome
That's the book said the lrishrnan.
But that was written by Macaulay
We'll. it's all the same Maybe | got tho
names mixed but | knew 1t was some
Irishman.
Overheard in Third avenue car:
MY. but Butch Miller is the quick one!
Foist time ever seen him, he says:
-Donchu know who am? Well, you're
a PIG"
Mad! should say was mad.
That amt no way TO talk to lady
says |; Whatiu mean?
IT'S all right, says he, p G. means
-Pretty Ignorant Girl.
An be says it just like that
For about twenty years, while Mrs.
Blank lived in whole house. she longed
for a fat, where she could have everything
on the one floor Last fall she carried her
point and moved into fiat which met every
desire OF her heart, for its rooms we're all
| light and il was on the ground floor. Less
| than one winters life has changed her ideas,
| and now she again longs for whole house.
Her first discovery when the cold weather
| set in was that she was Immediately over
| a cold cellar, where the front door has to be
| constantly opened for tradesmen, while
! the rear door was opened for light. There
is continuous draught. and the cold air
cores up through the floor. The climax
was reached last Sunday, when the dumb
waiter ran wild from one OF the flats above
and three scuttles Of ashes came bursting
| through the door and laJlde in her kitchen
A cloud of Dust filed the rooms and al.
and a dinner was ruined. Now the pC "a
| husband viii get no rHace until they ge'
| lack ~ a whole house again
In the Coroners Office there is a cabinet
where bottles Of poison taken from suicides
are kept. The other day half filled flask
| OF whiskey and chloroform which some
person had used was added to the collection.
! The clerk forgot to lock up the cabinet
! at night and in the morning the bottle was
| gone The theory in the Coroner's Office
| |, that some thirsty individual in the build
! ing was deceived into thinking the bottle
| contained pure whiskey, and now they
| are waiting for a sudden death IN order