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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
Fortunes of Great Singers

priced for years and with French thrift
has invested much in her native country,
where she can watch it closely; she has
also bought an annuity for a gOodly in
come that will be certain in her old age.
Nine. NOrdica of late years has earned
large amounts and has not yet shown in
dicatiOns of a tendency to spend it I'M
necessarily. beyond projecting a scheme
for musical institution that was greeted
with something Of skepticism by the mu-
steal world and has not yet been built.
Nine. Gadski is said to be well-to-dO as
a result of her operate career. Nine.
Lehman, reputed to have d substantial
fortune, has been a favorite of the Ger
man public during the seven years since
she last appeared in the United States
and had a very profitable career in this
country. She is said to have willed her
fortune to the Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Animals in Berlin. Her
investments have been chiefly in real es-
tate.
At the head of the list of singers who
have made and spent large amounts,
probably should stand the names of the
famous brothers, Jean and Edouard de
Reszke. Jean, at the time of his re-
tirement few years ago the most famous
and highest-priced tenor in the world
lived in an expensive fashion and is said
to have used up large part of his income
as fast as he got it. Now a teacher in
about ten months of the year. EdOuard
de Reszke, the baSSO, sang on every Occa-
sion possible when in the United States
during his brothers period of fame and
earned a fortune, but is said to have lost
most of it in business speculations and
In attempting to carry on an Improbable
and expensive estate in Poland, and few
wears ago went to London to teach.
The number of latter-day singers who
saved and invested their money is large
among the number being Clara Louise
Kellogg. Geraldine Farrar Mary Garden.
Minnie Hauck, Nine. Homer, Nine
Schumann-H eink and Olive Fermstadt
Signor Caruso, the leading tenor of the
world. has enormous earnings which he
is generally believed to have invested
well notwithstanding his recent bitter
complaint about having to support so
many poor relations.
If the fortunes of great singers have
come easily in the main, they have in
too many instances gone easily. Probably
more of them have been prudent than of
successful actors and actresses, for the
reason that success on the dramatic stage
has in most cases cost a less amount of
time and money for preparation than ue-
cess on the operate stage. Few great
singers. as compared with actors and
actresses. have died in poverty. The rank
and file of singers. as of actors. are. as a
rule, prudent Of necessity; having no ex-
traOrdinary means of acquiring, they
must be prudent for old age. The rule
probably holds in stage careers as much
as in business that q love of spend
ing while making means little acquisition
of permanent wealth.-Chicago Record
Herald
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
Chorus Girls DOWYy.

better chance of saving money than the
500 a week actress. You doubt it? Well.
a comparison of the living expenses of
the two women will readily convince you.
An actress receiving 500 a week must
stop at the better class of hotels. The
cost of a room with bath is never less
than s. a day. It is impossible to dine at
such a hotel for less than 81 a meal unless
one INDUCES in nothing but a glass of
ice water, and even this will cost a 1G-cent
tip to the waiter. A good breakfast viii
cost Sl.50 a luncheon 81, and dinner all
the way from s. to as high as one wishes
to go, depending entirely on the size of
ones appetite-and travelling about the
country does not, of course, reduce one 5
eating capacity.
When at the end of the week you ask
for your bill with firm upper lip, the
number and size of the figures in the total
usually endangerS ones equilibrium. In
the bill one will find items which seem
trivial until they are added to the cost of
ones room and board. Tailor charges
land those of an actress are heavy, laun-
dry bills, telephone calls, postage stamps.
hair dresser and manicure reminders, and
a thousand and one things absolutely
must look the part her salary calls for.
Compare these expenses with the cost
of living necessary to the comfort and
happiness of the average shopgirl. She
lives in her COzy, little room, which. in
Guiding meals decently cooked, costs her
but s. or SIS a week. If she rents her
room by the month, which is possible be-
cause she lives in the same city the year
around, the cost is less. She does not
have to tip a porter a dozen times a
week to carry her bag to her room or
bring her a pitcher of ice water. She does
not have to pay hotel prices. which are
exactly double usual rates. to have her
skirts pressed and her waists Numbered
She has her little gas stove and her iron
and can press her own clothes. 1t is not
necessary for her to do all her shopping in
a ga or a ele
travels from her hotel TO the depot. The
shop girl can get to her destination for )
cents, or lodge within walking distance
-of her Dlace of emDlOvment'
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I used to be a printer. and even then
l was full of my nonsense. | was fred
time after time because l was d funny
man, though now, as l look back upon
it, l often think that was gentle way
of telling me l wasn't good enough
printer for my job. Then, like so many
of the craft, l graduated into writing.
Here's a strange thing. When l was
a boy 1 was always speaking pieces at
school. One that I made a hit in" as
I'd put it now was How Cyrus Laid
the Cable" My pants were too short,
I was thin and gawlzy and big cared,
and my eyes were always red in those
days. / must have been a sight, but
] got that piece over all right Well,
the first person I interviewed when
went on the New York Herald was Cy-
rus Field himself 1t was at his house
in Gramercy Park, and as I sat there in
his library talking Familiarity to the
great man who had done so much and
had even got himself into heroic
rhyme, the sensation was thrilling.
/ don't know how it is outside of
New York, but there a lot of news is
now gathered by news bureaus and
given to all the papers. But in my
days we specialized. 1 started in as a
police reporter, remember, and there
were departments for everything.
X
My assignment was to cover all the
police stations from Central park arse
nal down to Mulberry street. Just three
miles from one to the other. I would
start in at 10 o'clock and l had to turn
my stuff in at the office at Y, so you
can imagine what a quick trip l would
have to make. If there was car, I
rode. If not, / walked when I WASH
behindhand in my schedule, and then
I'd run. Police reporters don't have
hard assignments like that these days.
There were lots of bright fellows on
the job, and it used to be said that
some of them were considered the best
detectives in New York. Let them get
the bare skeleton of crime from the
'blotter," and they could analyze it
and run it down better than the regular
plain clothes men.
was on the Herald for some time,
then / wandered all over the country.
When 1 got back to New York I was
broke all but a few dollars and tried
TO make them last until 1 got a job
The way to do that was to bring in a
beat or a scoop and show them that
you were still a ffrst-Class man. Moth
ing turned up and / was desperate One
night. or. rather, one morning, about {
O'Clock. had just 10 cents left. I took
and went into a cheap lodging house
where, as I couldn't go the beds, ]
sat around till daylight. It was out OF
the wind and the cold, anyway.
X X =
kept 5 cents for coffee and rolls, an6
I went into a little place and got them
Then I sat around and read the morn
ing paper I used to do a lot of shiT
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Recent reports of the loss of the greater
part of Nine. Melba's fortune have been
supplemented by the-explanation that the
famous prima donna of las years has
been living in a very expensive fashion.
Her home in London was butt regardless
of cost, and she mas another in Paris.
Her social life nSs been one of assOcia-
ton with nobility and has cost her much
money. To her fc1dness fol society, in
deed. is ascribed the fact that she has not
sung so frequently as in former years,
but on occasions she has emerged for
season OF brief SplendOr and for the WOr-
ship Of the British public which contin-
ues 70 consider her the leading soprano
OF the world. Not yet old, having been
born in 1863 she may recOup great part
OF her losses II she follows the precedent
OF the illustriOus Patti, who was not only
VIGOROUSLY high priced when in her prime,
but has shown a keen appreciation of the
value of her art in her declining years.
Unlike most noted singers, Nine. Melba
has never known poverty. She went TO
Paris TO study with Nine. MarChesi in
1884, when her father, a wealthy Austria
sloner to the Paris exposition. Her ia
theirs fortune is reported to be sufficient
10 provide well for her, even should she
never again acquire wealth of her own.
Of all the great singers of the nine
teenth century, Nine. Patti probably
reaped the largest financial rewards. She
II now in her siXty-SeVenth year and be-
yond the probability Of even one more
Wales she lives in luxury with her young
husband, Baron CedarstrOm, and is sup
posed TO have a large fortune invested in
profitable securities under the advice of
Alfred ROthschild, from which she draws
a large income. ROthschild, indeed. is
credited with having performed the same
friendly service for Nine. Melba as we'll
as for other singers and artists of dis
tinctiOn,
Christine Nilsson, now IS years old, and
known as the DOwager Countess de Mi
randi, her titled husband having died in
1902 is said by her friends to have a for
tune which may rival PATHS, invested in
Sweden IN one year she cleared Sl5O0O0
in the United States, and she has been
retired from the operate stage for many
years. The daughter OF a Iaboring man,
she was educated through the liberality
of a Swedish patron. After her first mar
riage, in 1872. to N. Auguste Bouzard. a
French merchant, she sang little. Several
years ago she owned much real estate in
Boston.
Nine. Sembrich, whose large earnings
began when Henry E. Abbey paid her
$4,000 and her expenses during her first
tour of the United States in 1888 has
been highly paid each season, and is said
to have invested her earnings judiciOusly.
Emma Eames, who has lately announced
at Paris that she is done with the stage
forever and viii henceforth enjoy life,
has been a money-makeT for many years,
and is credited with having acquired a
comfortable sum from her twenty years
Of work. Emma Calve has been high
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
Story of My Newspaper Days
Ezra Kendall in Chicago Tribune.

news for the Herald, so l naturally
turned to that department. l saw that
a certain boat was due TO sail that day,
and l recalled the purser as an old
friend.
was still well dressed and would
look all right if l hunted him up. He
will give me meal, l thought, and d
good cigar and drink. So off l start
ed By the time | got there it was
about o'clock. The purser was glad
to see me. His first remark was, What
paper are you on now?" 1 answered,
THE Herald" for l was on that just
az much as any of the others. They all
looked good tonne if I could get a job
on them. Don't say anything, but III
give you a tip" continued the purser
Cornelius Vanderbilt is on the boat
and he's a-gOing around the world with
us Nobody knows it, and he doesn't
want any one to know it, so you
mustn't give me away.
| forgot all about my hunger. l took
a card from my pocket, wrote New
York Herald" across it. and sent it
down to the great man. He had kept
his sailing a secret because he didn't
want to be bothered with business and
friends, but the boat was about ready
to sail, so he didn't care. In fact he
was glad to get it in the papers after he
was gone. So he received me graciously,
wondered where I had heard of his
plans, and insisted upon my taking a.
glass of wine with him. Then, as We
talked, he pressed another upon me and
and couple of big, fat cigars.
X X
There was a funny situation. A poor.
starving reporter dying for a square
meal and smoking costly cigars and
drinking priceless wine. If Mr.. Van
derbilt had known my hunger, nothing
would have been too good for me, but 1
was too proud to confess and he
couldn't guess that the well-dressed,
buoyant young fellow was starving.
You can easily guess the effect of
wine and cigars upon an empty stom-
ach. 1t took me at least four hours to
get rid Of my wOoziness. Then l
rushed up to the Herald. When I told
my news they laughed at me, but in
quiry at Vanderbilt's house showed
that l was right. The Herald wished to
buy the story outright. but 1 farmed it
out to enough papers to make me about
$40. When 1 pasted up my string in the
morning I sold it to James Creelman,
my old chum, because I needed the
money right away and he was tempo
rarily flush.
Going into a newspaper office is to me
like a war horse seeming the battle
field. Talk about your famed fountain
of Trevi that, once quaffed brings you
back for another draft sooner or later
it's nothing to the hypnotic pull of the
newspaper. Once a man has got the
scent of printers ink up his nostriis II
seeps into his veins and only death can
destroy it.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
Where the Actors Speak British

ing that the word was not specially"
but speciality"
We'll. it's an error, 1 am sure said
the actor
But the authors original manuscript
was consulted and there it Was-"spe-
ciality." Moreover, someone soon found
the same spelling in Lady Frederick
"All right said Mr.. Drew so be it,
speciality
But toward the end of the season, when
Jack Straw had about run it's course,
learned academic friend of Mr.. Drew,
after hearing him in the play, came back
after the performance with the startling
inquiry:
why, in the name of all that's holy.
do you say speciality? "
"Why?" sharply answered Mr.. Drew,
because it's the authors language" I
YES; I dare say it is, but he is wrong
that spelling and pronunciation went out
of use twenty years ago"
Bright author!' answered Mr.. Drew.
His speciality hereafter had better be
the speciality of thumbing a dictionary"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07

Athens act four. scene three sounds
familiar, and it really seems as If the
bard OF Avon must have seen our crack
,ateher throw to second when he writes
n "Pericles," act one. scene one. We'll
experienced Archer hits the mark his
we doth level at"
Lord Bsrowne, in Loves Labor Lost"
has something to say about two pitch
calls" and if this be an old form of
Brown it may refer to strike out record
rot equaled since.
Let US conclude with this careful state
ment from the epilOgue: Tis ten to
one this play can never please all who
are here" So impartial It sounds like
4 reflection from the press box. We have
heard of the universally of sweetest
Shakespeare, fancy's child" but wo,-ld
YOU have thought he had this intimate
connection with the national pastime?
x X X
A French magazine relates an eX-
ample of the marvellous memory of the
late Coquelin the elder:
At an entertainment given by a Bel
gian book collector the great French
comedian was asked how many parts
he Knew by heart.
"Fifty-three." was the answer.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
MILE. PERTINA OF SOUL
KISS" is ENTHUSIAST ABOUT DANCING
ing skit.

to describe that movement, trans
formed into a dance movement and act
to the rhythm of the accompanying
music
"A dancer giving an accurate imita-
ton of a horse and rider jumping
hurdle would be anything but graceful,
and yet when seen the jumping horse
and good rider are grace personified
And nothing is so celebrating as to
sit on a good hunter and take a hurdle
in perfect unison with your mount, In
the dance I try to give the sensation OF
the jump, and the only bit of realism is
the sWaying of the body into position
after the jump has been accomplished,
when taking the bar on a horse.
1T is the additions of little bits of
observation like this, combined with the
vivid imagination, that makes up a de-
scriptive dance. In other words, it is
realism conventionalized to the dance
step and never going beyond the
bounds of grace or beauty or over
shadowing the personality of the dane
er. The descriptive dance needs more
concentration of mind on the work
than the ordinary fancy step dancing
because not only must all the details
be remembered and the various steps
executed in time, but the dancer must
keep her mind on the succession of
imaginary events she is trying to de-
scribe through the medium of the
dance, and her facial expression, which
is one of her greatest aids in acquaint-
ing the public with the passing picture
must vary as that does.
If she stops thinking of her subject
for moment the expression of the face
will die out and the public lose the
thread of the story For, after ALL the
descriptive dance is merely a story told
by means of the feet, the body and the
face, and, like the story teller whose
mind waHders, she loses her point if
she fOrgets the subject of her dance
for an instant"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
Chicago Inter- OCEAN,

Chicago Inter- OCEAN,
Following the lead of the National
Trades Union league, which recently, in
convention, established a dOwry fund for
the unattached of their ranks Chicago
feminine theatrical folk particularly
chorus girls. have banded together and
will proceed to dover themselves.
Believing that a few dollars may at
some time come just as handy to a girl
in the theatrical profession as to anybody
else, these young women have made plans
for carrying out their ideas and for max
ing life for old maids Of Stageland a
dream of comfort, if they should be turned
down by mere man in the matrimonial
market. The name of the organization is
The Girl From RectOr's DOwry Fund
Protective association"
1T is the intention of each girl mem
Der of our organization weekly to set aside
20 per cent of her salary to be included,
with the contributions of the other play
eTS, IN a dOWTy fund which, based on IN
aggregate weekly compensation paid the
twenty members of The Girl From Rec
tors company, totals something like S10,-
600 at the end of a forty weeks season, -
said Miss Nena Blake, leader of the move
ment, yesterday. This fund is then to
be divided between the first five members
of the company who can prove positively
that they have irrevocably decided to en-
bark on the sea of maJTimOny.
1.-The formation of our little plan to save
money gives rise to an interesting discus
sion regarding the amount of money re-
ceiVed by an actress during the season
and the percentage of which can be laid
aside for a rainy day The prevalent idea
that we woman of the stage live in lux
ury, rolling in wealth from one years end
to the other is absurd. True, we are paid
salaries which. if saved, would amount to
a nice, tidy sum at the end of a season.
But how can we save? No adequate idea
of the never ceasing strain on an across
pOcketboOk can be had by any one not a
professional woman. Compelled to main
N n Ex-ff
positions, the chance TO put away 10 pei
cent of our weekly stipend is decidedly
slim.
why. the s. a week shon girl stands a
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-07
This Manager Had a "PuI >

Here's a letter Al G. Field recently
received from the manager of an
''opry" house in a Minnesota town:
Dear Sir: Yours of April I'd at
and How do you expect to get Paper
up for a Showing in a Town at an
Opera House that does nH Own or
CONTROL a single foot of BIZ Boards,
When the - Theatre owns them all.
The House you are going to play at
has played mostly moving Pictures
Cheap Bureau attractions and has new
eT Been a Success. You can plainly
see by the Above letter Head that all
the Goods Shows and attractions play
al the Theatre which does the Bust
ness and is the successful House. The
Guy at the Other House is not a mgr
He is Rube and Failure in the Show
Biz Don't know any more about the
Show Biz than a Rabbit and is there
trying to get you in there with out
any advertising space what SO Ever
and unless you or your Agent Makes
some arrangements with me for Bill
Boards you will not get amy Bill
Board Showing as l positively Have the
Bill Boards. and the Locations and I
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will Positively not Rent them To the
Tall Grass Manager that you are play
ing. 1 have a Showing Comming Right
be Hind you the following Week and
you can't get enough Biz here without
Bill BOOTds to Flag a PretZel Wagon
with, as 1 am Experienced Mgr of so
years Experience and a Strong OPP
pussitiOn man. And I Bill Poster and
have Plenty money and not afraid to
Spend it on Opposition. I should
think that you Big Mgrs Rather play
a Experienced Mgr with Plenty Ad-
vertising Space in a theatre that al
ways has been a Success, then with d
Prune Peddler and Bling Mackerei
Salesman. that does the Dummy Mgr
act without amy vicia1ties of getting
you any showing of what you have TO
offer the Public to go and see now
think it over My $4,000 offer made
you or your agent Holds good still and
the free use of my theatre and BOords
Please put your agent Wise to this
Write to a Real Live Experienced Mgr
and not a RUDE. Best Wishes.
Bill Poster and Mgr"