Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-29

The fact that few actors and man.
ayers leave behind them any fortune
appears to be just as true in other
countries as 1t is here. A statisticiar
has recently figured out some interest.
ing details as to the estates left by dis.
tinguished players and managers ir
England. Henry Irving left only $780,.
600, and much of that was realized from
the sale of his pictures and other works
of art. The fact that Ellen Terry had a
beneiit the other day shows how much
she has saved from half a. century OF
work Unlike Sir Henry she never had
any share of losses to ear
william Terriss, who was murdered
fiVe years ago I'm London was so at the
time of his death, and left 500, 900. lie
had been in all that period an actor
under salary and had made few 1. any
ventures of his own, Dan Leno, who
was only As at the time of his ueath, got
the biggest salary ever pai, to any
music hall singer in England, and Oscar
Hammerstein gave him $500 i'm real
money during his stay at the olympia.
Yet he left behind him only s54. 600.
Wilson Barrett, who had known many
ups and downs In his career, found
great prosperity In THE Sign of the
Cross" during the later years of his
life, but none of the plays that he at
tempted after that time ever made any
money for him. Probably the $50.000
that he left behind him came altogether
from the royalties that he received from
that play. It has been acted in this
country for six years and is to go on
tour again.
Augustus Harris. who had Covent
Garden and Drury Lane, died in the
early 4Os, and was so much involved
financially that in spite of all his great
enterprises he left ar estate of only
$4,000 Lady Martin. wLo was Helen
Faucit, had earned in her professional
career $135,O00.
The circus managers seem to be as
prosperous in England a. they are here.
The famous Frederick Hengler left
S2SS,0OO. which Is a larger sum Than
any manager or actor in England left,
but seems small in comparison with
the $S,OO0,000 left behind by James
Bailey and the great Barnum fortune.
Some of the American fortunes have
turned out just as small. 1t was
thought always that the late Fanny
Davenport was a rich woman. She had
acted for years with great success and
had been a great popular faV orite Yet
she left practically nothing. That was
in a measure due to the failure of sew
eral productions made just before her
death.
Henry E. Abbey died a poor man, al
though he had handled millions.
Maurice Grau, on the other hand, re-
tired from business worth $4,000 part
of which was maCe from successful
speculation. The rest of his fortune
was earned during the last ten years
of his managerial career.
Augustin Daily had been through sew
eral years of very bad luck just before
his death, but his last season was
profitable, because THE Great Ruby"
turned out by a lucky fluke to be
great financial success. Yet he left very
little. His books, his contracts for GER
tain musical farces from England and
his interest in Daly's theater in London
turned out to be cbout all he possessed.
Yet he had been for years in harness
and spent thousands and thousands of
dollars.
A. M. Palmer was practically a pen
sioner on the bounty of Charles Froh-
man when he died as manager of the
Herald Square theater. AL Hayman is
said to be the richest manager today
Frank Sanger, who died three years
ago. left fortune of 5000, zoo. He left,
He figured very little, however. in the
affairs of the theater, and earned most
of his money through his ownership of
certain plays. THE Sign of the Cross"
was one of these. Lester Wallack died.
of course, penniless.
Lotta Crabtree, who gave $1,000 for a
program at the benefit for the San
Francisco sufferers, is said to be the
richest actress in this country, and her
fortune has been estimated at sums
varying from SSOO,000 to 81 900, 900. Much
of it is in real estate. In that way the
largest theatrical fortunes have been
made.
Sol Smith Russell, who died three
years ago, was the richest actor in the
profession with the exception. of Joseph
Murphy. Russell, who was accepted in
every city in the country but New York.
invested his earnings in real estate in
Minneapolis and ST. Paul. He sold
much of that property at a great ad-
vance and later put his mone:' into
Washington real estate with an equally
successful result. He left more than
100000.
Joseph Murphy made fortune out of