Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03

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Juror in New York, has her summer home
In Lucerne and usually spends her winters
travelling In Egypt or the Orient.
Geraldine Farrar paid 10000 last season
to her former benefactor and that probably
used up a large part Of her earnings for
the year. She lives economically, takes her
meals In the public cafe Of the hotel in
which she lives, and shows no tendency to
extravaganza Mary Garden also settled
some similar indebtedness last winter. and
she is probably beginning just now to earn
enough to save money. her salaries in
Paris before she came to this country hav-
ing been very small In comparison to the
1900 that Oscar Hammerstein pays her.
Probably the largest outlay that the
great singers have is for their personal
costumes, and there are few Of them that
do not have big bills with the Paris dress
makers.
Signor Caruso's earnings are enormous
since he sings with the Metropolitan Opera
company. and his contract calls for APP
proximately 800, 900 every year. Yet he has
recently complained bitterly of the large
amount he was compelled to dlsburse on
his family and his more remote relatives.
1t is a characteristic of the high priced
singers to be always waiting for the time
when they have paid all their outstanding
obligations and are going to start in to
save money. Somehow this time never
seems to arrive until after their voices
have begun to go and they are compelled
to crowd all the available possible engage
ments into the short time left to them.
Contraltos never receive as much as
the sopranos, but both Mines. Homer and
Schumann-Heink have lived prudently
enough to save their money, invest It in
real estate and buy homes in which they
are rearing their families. Another singer
who has accumulated a comfortable for
tune is signor Scott, who has not only
been prudent in his expenditures, but we'll
advised in his investments.
Andreas DIPPED never had a salary like
Caruso's, but he was always very well
paid and had put aside a comfortable
fortune by the time he stepped into a
salary of $4,000 a year as conductor Of
the Metropolitan.
Angelo Maisini, the great italian tenor,
who came into European Importance first
in 1876, when he created Rhadames in the
production Of Verdis Aida" in Paris,
went back to st. Petersburg to sing two
years ago, although he was well over 60.
The reason was the entire loss Of his large
fortune, which he had intrusted to a friend
for investment. only to see It fade away
within a few months. Italo Campaninl,
who earned a fortune here, lost 1t in
unsuccessful operate speculation, largely
through his production Of 'Othello' here,
and Siegmund Mlerzurnski, who died the
other day in Paris, spent all his money in
his way Of living and was all but penniless
when his voice suddenly failed him. Yet
for a while he was the highest paid tenor
in Europe.
Emelio di march, had almost the same
experience and for the years from 1893 to
1900 received enormous sums in South
America and Spain, where he sang with
Hercla Darclee. He got 5000 a night wher
he was here with Colonel Mapleson in 1895
Nowadays. however, he is singing in OBJ
scure companies at an obscure salary.
francesca Tamagno probably left a for
tune, as his compensation had been large
the world over and his economies were
remarkable. He had his brother for a
valet, used to try to sell the two orchestra
seats that went to him by his contracts
on the nights he sang, and was threatened
with suit by a hotel for the damage he
did to the bathroom when he cooked
macaroni there. He never lost any of his
money through extravagant living.
The actress of an older generation seem
to have been much more fortunate in their
investments than some Of those who sue
ceeded them. Maggie Mitchell has lived
for more than twenty years in retirement
on the fortune she made and kept while
an actress. Lolita Crabtree is Just as rich,
and Henrietta Chapman, who died on her
New Jersey farm the other day, had kept
her fortune.
/ Mrs. Barney Williams, who died in her
home on the upper West Side a few years
/ ago, left the fortune that belonged to her
and her husband. Mary Anderson had
] when she retired from the stage to marry
5 a rich New Yorker most Of the thousands
D she had earned during her career.
Fanny Davenport used to be. accounted
Y the richest of American actresses, but she
left nothing. Richard Mansfleld's fortune
; was much less than it was supposed to be.