Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-01-09

generation VINO remembers that
Jeanne Granie- created aGirofe-Giro-
fla" in 1874? Hortense Schneider was
still singing; could she have dreamed
that her young rival, after scarcely re-
peating her successes in the Petit
DUO and .Mam'zeIle Gavroche," could
have the strength of mind to switch
of 70 high comedy before the deeting
voice forsook her? Jeanne Granier's
tTiumphs in high comedy proclaim her
one of the 1uckiest artistes of the age
Fortunate Paderewski.
I once heard Paderewski's manager,
while playing poker at the Hotel Pow
ers in Paris, proclaim his own princi-
pal as the most lucky or the happiest
man. He has but to keep up his tech
nique, and he enjoys it. He is the
typical one-man entertainer; requires
no support; needs no advertising OF
accessories; has no expenses to eat
into profits, and there is nothing to
prevent Paderewsh from drawing his
$4,000 per night as long as he wants
to play. You see? He has no contract
to make with any manager. He just
sells tickets!"
Kubelik, the vfoIinist, who receives
$500 every time he plays, depends upon
an orchestra and takes his money
from an impresario who shares the
risks and profits. Apart from this, the
one-man entertainer certainly has his
luck simplified for him. Even the
champion pugilist must have pug,
provided for him to knock out; but
think of Fragson, who just sits and
sings at the piano for $4,000 per
MONTH
These music ha1l-stars, surely, dc
very little to attain much. Yvette Gull
bert, who can still get $3.50 per night
at the Scala in Paris, receives $3.50 for
singing a few songs in London, Berlin
and New York. Mayo1, the comic
tenor, draws $50 per quarter of an
hour in Paris and $500 per month on
tour in French cities. Louise Balthy,
grotesque comic lady, earns $4,000 per
month; Germafne Galliois, the beauty
escaped from comic opera, $4,000, and
Mealy, another like her, 50, o00-all for
short turns in the halls They are the
worlds favorites. They show them
selves a little quarter of am hour each
highland all the year is Christmas
for themr
Little Tich'r Envied.-
They have but one lurking danger
loss of popularity because if the soil
tary entertainer profits tremendously
by the independence of his; position, he
risks greatly by lack of support. Once
heard a great tragedian of London
mourning that he was not Little Itch,
Little Itch is really Independent,
happy, yes,- for life,'' he said. 1.-The
frightful little dwarf discovered that
shoes half his body's length permitted
him to make comic bow that the
world could not tire of That comic
bow could bring Little. Itch 500 per
night in London, Paris, New York
anywhere. He has a einch for 1ife,"
Who does the least to get the most?
Probably Little Itch. If not, then
Paderewski. The great tenor and So
prano voices go. The champion pugil-
ist will some day find his master-and
fail, plump, into obscurity. The comics
of both theater and music hall, depend
ing on vivacfty and magnetism, lose
drawing power with age. The queen
of opera bouffe sees her charms fade.
But there remain the grandmothers of
the Paris stage who own their thea
ters- Sarah Bernhard and Rejane
have their popularity assured them by
the forces that hold all Partisan soci
ETY. together.
Rejane was petty, therefore, to be
jealous even for moment of the
placid American Hercules who had
nearly punched a hole through Ben
Taylor When he shall have vanished
from the ring Rejane win still be play
ing passion, love, flowers, stars and
little birds in her own Paris theater.-
Sterling Heilig in the Washington
Star.