Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
GREEN ROOM TALK
AND TATTLE

In India every drama begins with a
prayer.
AS rule Japanese performances last
from a. m. until 9 p: m.
Three of the women in THE Sins Of
Society" Donnelly, Louise
! Closer Hale and Louise Rutter-wear
course of that tumultuous drama.
Broadhurst's "The Law of Love" is
to be cyril Scotts vehicle next season.
William T. Hodge has sent $1,000 to
the Metropolitan Temple, New York.
| toward fund being raised to clear
the church of debt. Mr.. Hodge occu-
pied the pulpit there few weeks ago
and gave a short address on the sub
ject of the theater.
One of the most important produce
tions this spring under scholastic
auspices was the revival by the Uni
versity of Illinois of the romantic
tragedy of "The Two Noble Kinsmen,"
by John Fletcher and an unknown.
THE Two Noble Kinsmen' was first
published in 1884, eighteen years after
the death of Shakespeare and nine
years after the death of Fletcher.
The old house in which Maude Ad-
ans was raised has been demolished
during the past week to make room
for larger structures. This building
stood across the road from the Salt
Lake theater and was rented by Annie
Adams Kiskadden in order to be near
the theater. The nurse brought Maude
over each evening to the theater to
ha nA nd ,f fI,ne.
occasions that Maude was unexpect-
edly ushered on to the stage in place
of the baby who should have played
the part.
can actress" said Rose Coghlan. "is
eternally older than she is. People
think that because they saw me in
1879 l must be more than 30 years old
Isn't il absurd? But | did play Lady
Macbeth with Barry Sullivan when l
was only 19. Perhaps now I'm going
to get a life's hearth. l am selected for
the stock company which is going to
do things at the New theater in New
York" She took from her dresser a
picture of a white haired old lady.
MY mother when she was so years
old. Oh I've got long time to play!"
she finished.
The seats of the New theater in New
York are over subscribed long before
the date when the applications will be
closed. although the management has
not announced the name of a single
play or that of one of the actors en-
gagged.
Mrs. Annie Yeamans was the guest
of Buffalo Bill at the Wild West Show
in Brooklyn Mrs. Yeamans made her
first appearance before the public as
a horseback rider in an Australian cir
Gus in 1850, being then IA years old.
The Show World says: The average
pay of a clown is $25 week and board
Some command $35 and $40; few receive
more than this, no matter how clever
they may be.
Pauline Louise des Loudes, known on
the stage as Bonita, was married last
week to Lewis Hearn, who has been
associated with her for several years
in "Wine, Woman and Song" Next
season they will play in a vaudeville
sketch together.
There are nearly 10000 moving pic
ture theaters in the United States, the
average operating expenses of each
being $50 a day-a total of about $780,
700 a day being thus put into the chan
nels of trade by the industry.
Vaudeville actors who perform in
Chicago Scent theaters have decided to
limit their output" Four stunts"
lay and eight on Saturdays and Sun
lays have been set aside as the limit
Additional performances must be paid
'or as overtime up to twelve a day,
beyond which the actors say they will
lot go. Single turns receive 500 a
week; double $40. The union has 200
members.
A Hongkong production of a dra-
natic expose of the horrors of opium
has struck the traffic a body
blow.
The Germans take the theater seri-
,usly as record of the performance
# the works of great authors during
he season 19O7-19OS plainly shows.
schiller was played 1441 times, "Wil-
lam Tell alone having reached 292
Sudermann was played
202 times Shakespeare Gas; Goethe.
O5; Hauptmann, 476; Lesring, $40, and
dolere, 1856.