Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-10

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Kellogg saved ample money for her needs
and now passes her time In comfort at her
Connecticut home and in Europe. Minnie
Hauck. first Of the Carmens TO make q
Juror in New York. has her summer home
In Lueoerne and usually spends her win
ters travelling in Egypt or the orient.
Miss Farrar Lives Economically.
Geraldine Farrar paid $4,000 last season
to her former benefactor, and that prob
ably 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 Gardner also settled some similar
Indebtedness last winter. and she is prob
ably beginning Just now to earn enough
to save money, her salaries in Paris before
she came to this country having been
very small in comparison to the 81, 200 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
Sig. Csruso's earnings are
since he sings with the Metropolitan
opera company, and his contract calls for
approximately 100000 every year. Yet he
has recently complained bitterly OF the
large amount he was compelled to dis
burse on his family and more remote re-
latives.
1t is a characteristic Of the high priced
singers to be always waiting for the time
when they have paid off all their out
nt.~IEn. t,hlt.,Nto,a an7 Z. g,trn O.,
start in to save money. Somehow this
time never seems to arrive until after their
voices nave begun to go and they are
compelled to crowd all the available pos
sible engagements into the short time left
to them.
Rearing Large Families.
Contraltos never receive as much as
the sopranos, but both Mines. Hooper and
Schumann-Heink have lived prudently
enough to save their money, invest it in
real estate and buy homes in which they
are rearing large families. Another singer
who has accumulated a comfortable fortune
is Sig. Scott, who has not only been pru-
dent in his expenditures, but well ad-
vised In his investments.
Andreas DIPPED never had a salary like
Caruso's, but he was always very we'll
paid and had put aside a comfortable for
tune by the time he stepped into a salary
OF $4,000 a year as conductor OF the Metro
politan.
Angelo Masini, the great Italian tenor,
who came into European Importance first
in 1876 when he created Rhadames in the
production of Verdi's Aida" in Paris, went
back to st. Petersburg to sing two years
ago, although he was we'll over 60. The
reason was the entire loss Of his
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trusted to a friend for investment,
only to see 1t fade away within a few
months. Italo Campaninl. who earned a
fortune here, lost it in unsuccessful oper-
attic speculation, largely through his pro-
ductioD of "Otello" here, and Siegmund
Mierzurnsksi, who died the other day in
Paris, spent all his money in his way OF
living and was all penniless when his
voice suddenly failed him. Yet for a
while he was the highest paid tenor in
Europe.
Emelio di Marchi had almost the same
experience, and for the years from 1898 to
1900 received enormous sums in South
America and Spain, where he sang with
Hercla DarClee. He got 1900 a night when
he was here with Colonel Mapleson in 1896.
Nowadays, however. he is singing in
obscure companies at an obscure salary.
Had His Brother for Valet.
francesca Tamagno probably left a for
tune. as his compensation had been large
the world over and his economies were re-
markable. 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 bath room when he cooked macaronl
there. He never lost any Of his money
through extravaganza living.
The actresses OF an older generation
seem to have been much more fortunate in
their investments than some of those who
succeeded 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 hei
New Jersey farm the other day, has kept
her fortune.
Mrs. Barney williams, who died In hei
home on the upper west side a few years
ago, left the fortune that belonged to heI
and her husband. Mary Anderson had
when she retired from the stage to MARK
a rich New Yorker, most of the thousand.
she had earned during her career.
Fanny Davenport used to be accounted
the richest Of American actresses, but sh,
left nothing. Richard Mansfield's fortune
was much less than 1t was supposed to be
Joseph jefferson left behind him an estat,
said to be almost $4,000. Helena Modjeska
had scarcely anything but a few persona.
trinkets to leave behind, with the excep-
tion Of her estate in California. Most OF
that had been sold, moreover, long before
her death.
Hortense Rhea died in absolute poverty
and both Mrs. d. p. Powers and Chariot,
Thompson were successful stars for years
although their careers closed in very hum.
BILE financial circumstances.-Boston Herald