The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-28
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! Some Enormous
! Salaries

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Thirty years ago stage stars were
considered well paid if they could de-
mand a salary of s10 week, yet today
there are scores Of artists who receive
three times that amount for one night IS
work.
In regard to salaries. grand opera IA
vorites are particularly lucky. Madame
Melba, for instances, never thinks of
singing fer less thar 1920 an evening,
while $500 a night is nearer her aver
age. The earning power of the latest
star Tetrazzini, is about e15 a
minute every time she sings.
Modame Patti can claim a still high
er fee. 1t was only last year that she
| fulfilled an engagement in the United
States for six months tour. in which
she received 81 900 for each perform
anee and half the gross receipts over
! Fl 800. This engagement brought her
in nearly 100000.
Caruso, the king of tenors, will not
sing for less than $500 a night, or ego
| minute. He makes in the course of
| season on an average, $4,000.
Judging by the tempting offers, some
of the instrumentalists are no less for
tunate. 1t is said that Paderewski, the
most famous musician in the world, will
not give public exhibition of his skill
on the piano unless he is paid fee of
500 enthusiastically f26 for every sixty
seconds. Mascagni and Puccini. as con
ductors, can demand 1920 a day, while
Kubelik receives $50 for playing a
couple of pieces on his violin. One re-
cent tour in the United States of three
months duration netted him $500.
Actors and actresses of the front rank
cannot complain on the score of poor
pay Sarah Bernhard earns big fees
when she goes on a tour Her first
American trip lasted four months and
put f25, 900 into her pocket.
The wonderful speeches of Coquelin,
which he fondly calls 'fwords," are al
so carefully recorded, and it is stated
that each 'lword'' costs f6. Twenty
speeches night brought him in e240.
Besides the huge fees and salaries re-
ceived by entertainers, many people en-
gagged in other walks of life are not
badly off in the way of salaries. How
many mechanics would like to change
places with Mr.. John Hays Hammond,
the famous American engineer, who, I'M
til he went in for politics, drew the
enormous salary of 100000 annuallys
Even this. however, has been eclipsed
by a lawyer The largest single fee
ever paid was 100000, which Mr.. j.
B. Will of New York received for set
thing the disputes which arose be-
tween Mr.. Carnegie and Mr.. Henry G.
Trick over the transfer of the proper
ties merged in the United States Steel
Corporation. This is followed by the
astounding sum of 100000 received by
Mr.. D. Guthrie for winning another
sensational case. Mr.. Joseph H. Choate,
the late American ambassador to this
country, received 100000 for single
legal argument.
The fear of death has long been re-
sponsible for large fees paid to noted
physicians DR.. Adolph Lorenz of Wen
ma was paid $4,000 and travelling ex-
penses for treating a millionaire. King
Edward, when Prince of Wales, once
paid physician 10000 for four weeks
services. Dr. C. J. Parks, noted Chi
cago physician. will charge $4,000 for
single operation.
Dentists also know how to charge on
some occasions. When Prince Louis OF
Battenberg visited New York last year
he had to see a dentist, and consulta-
ion cost him $500, but the most as
founding bill ever drawn up by
dentist was by Dr. Browning, of past
generation, who charge a wealthy
patient $4,000.