Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12

today? | stick up for that awfui sug2er.
He's 80 heavy that 10 one can hurt him.
] am told he has an uppercut. hook and
short-arm jab born in the man, that
can't be learned. Next month he'll get
5000 again to snow his Sraces and knock
d man sense!esS.
SO the Partisan question rose-Who
does the least to get tie most: ReJan"
and most Parisians know nothing of the
$500 OF our Tommy Burns in Australia.
win. lose o. draw but TO earn il against
dangerous Jack Johnson r:sked the very
reputation that mad life 'Christmas
the year round for him.
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Were star pueilists 20 really risk their
reputation frequently they would fal!
into the category of Maphisto. the first
man to loop the loop. He received
SJ.4O0 per month and became great
pc -sonage in al the capitals of Europe
for. riskng to break his neck every night
No the $1,000 that Burns picked urp
easily for knocking out Bill SGuires last
Grand PriX night was really better money.
and ii opened Tommy's eyes TO Paris
possibilities. But here's the comic hitch:
The Paris heavyweight job is held down
already by a dangerous negro. Paris.
waking up to pugllism wonderfully. has
golden places open for an absolutely
first-class middleweight and any light
weight who can whip Kid Davis. Jimmy
Britt who gets $500 i'll London for
fairly easy knockout like that OF Johnny
Summers. can make and hold splendid
Paris place with little risk. MacFea's
Paris price for doing nothing is 5000,
and as he is collecting it six or eight
times a year. perhaps Rejane is not so
wrong about him.
Because Caruso. look YOU. is at the
mercy OF the first sore throat or simple
caiarrh. The keeping Of that delicate
voice in order is a veritable drawback to
a life al! Christmas
Caruso gets $3.50 every time he sings
and he sings eighty times year. But.
really. his easiest money is 5000 yearly.
just for singing twenty short songs into
a pEonograph He does it in five morn
incs when he feels good-say about 81 900
per hour.
Chaliapiue. tho great Russian dramatic
tenor. gets 5000 per night in Paris. Der
lin and Vienna. the sole difference being
that such nights are few and far be-
tween So Patti, who has had 5000 for
a single night in tie United States, re-
ceiyed 5000 once for singing three short
songs in Paris at the Eden concert-say,
500 per minute.
Pa;ti's minute. 1t remains the high
water mark. but it dated after she had
price for a whole evening at the italian
opera having been regularly SGD-and
glad to get il, AT this epoch in Paris
Nilsson was getting $40 per night: Nine.
Carvalho the star of the Opera Comique,
$50: Capou the legendary tenor of the
Grand Opera. S12o. and Faure. the famous
creator of Gounod's Mephistophe es. $500.
1t must not be forgotten. however that
such settled Paris engagements carried
valuable perquisites The magnificent
art site life Of Paris was wide open TO
their holders. When Faure sold his paint
ings. for example. they produced a for
tune. and all had been given to him by
admirng artists. Couuelin's house today
is museum Of precious objects mostly
gratis-"Half their charm" says Couuein.
They say Melba mourns the coming day
when her great voice must go. Her life
has been fairy tale of gold and honors.
and her last engagement was $4,000 for
ten representations. Yet few can hope to
hold the splendid voice as Patti held hers;