The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-11

! was successful, he got credit for bein,
a great organizer and a wonderful
judge of merit. He was not. The fin
balance in that company was an acci
dent He was like the average theatri
cal manager, a person of only ordinar.
intelligence. But he left the morgu
$3.50, 600 richer than he went int,
it. and he made a name for himself
Never from the day he left it has thu
morgue housed a success.
A man who makes $3.50 900 in a yea
from theatrical show has to display
lot of good management il he is goinl
to retain it, White believed he made TIL
Music and the Maids show. He hal
supreme confidence in his own good juds|
ment. He had tasted success and wanteI
more. He was tired of burlesque and hi
aimed higher. He put out big musical
comedy show. 1t didn't go. 1t had fail
music and good people, but it Lacked
snap. White lost a lot of money. HI
tried another venture of the same kind
That was dismal failure. Then he beI
came desperate and plunged. In few
years his $3.50 900 was gone and more, tod
and he had to go. into bankruptcy. III
still believes he is a great manager. bu|
he has gone back TO his early love AMI
is burlesque producer again.
Shaw. battered and pampered by TIL
praise he got from the public and from
the students of the stage. came out as
star. The play was written especially I'd
him He was on the stage almost ever
minute, from the rise of the curtain i
the first act 10 its fall in the last. H
thought the play was magnificent.
appealed strongly to him: but It 4didn
appeal to the public He did not reali2
how his extreme vanity spoiled the pc
formance There was lots OF evidence
fine ability, but he was overly prominent
To use a slang term, the show was RUNE
by a case of big head" He quarrelt
with the ger who starred him ar
was taken up by another Again he fails
because he did not want anybody to has
any chance in the show except himsel
Broadway knows him no longer. I'll
actor. ruined by success.
Only Chulita holds her own. She WI
the star of a musical comedy that MAJ
some money and brought her the gof
opinion of a fair number of persons al
then she had the good sense to mar
Corday Now the two of them are
vaudeville. Chulita is a headliner al
gets big money. She does not wear Par
dancing girl garb. she is a beautif
creature and on the stage she is CHAIR
ing
OF all that capable company that ma,
the Jump from the Bowery to Broadwi
and took the town by storm she is t
only one who was not injured by
White dreams of another turn in t
wheel of fortune that will bring hundre
of thousands of dollars to him again.
has framed the letter he got from Stoc
ton about six years ago. IT used to hal
over his desk in his office in the morgi
To visitors he used to show that lett
and say Ii marked the turning point
his career. 1t now hangs over his de
in the office where he manages his trou
OF burlesquers. II he ever gets anoth
well-balanced company together he hop
to get stockton to visit the show
write another letter like that
But Stockton will not. He never Sc
the Music and the Maids" from t
night he visited Miners Bowery theat
He does not think success in any bu
ness is a good thing for man who
not prepared for Ii or who is not stro
enough to handle IL when it comes
him.. He thinks that instead of doing
good turn for White and the others.
would have been better for all concert
If he had not gone to Miners that w
and been the innocent cause OF chankf
the course of the lives of those bufl
quers. So now instead of limiting
visits to theatres to one year he Ii
made it one in two years And he l
cut out burlesoues
Copyright. Luz. by Richard spillans1