Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1902, Page 24

Incomes of Some Well Known LILLIAN RUSSELL. (Copyrignht, 192, by Anna 8. Richardson.) N THE matter of uncertainty, the Rialto and Wall street stand on @ common pland Up today and down tomorrow! Money to squander on Monday, the price of @ meal at a quick lunch counter on kFri day! The young broker who is “on the curb” in the spring may have his office suite in the fall. The manager, ambitious, shrewd but poor, who at the opening of the sca son pushes the interests of some promising but unheralded actor with a play up hi sleeve by some equally unknown dramatist may buy “yachts and plays and things’ when hot weather swings the doors of his theater shut. And then, again, he 1way not But hundreds of him are taking chances every day. The lamb who wanders into the Stock exchange courts fortune The theatrical manager woos public fancy And of the two the latter is the more fickle mistress to serve. With but few exceptions it can be truthfully sald that the fortune of the manag:? Often, just as he gets beyond a mere bow ing acquaintance with prosperity, a cap tious public disapproves of his latest pub lic offering—and he begins over again. According to popular belief managers roll in wealth, This because the uninitiated never dream how often the impressario skates on thin financial ice, taking tre mendous chances and making the bluff which is the manager's best ally On the other hand, actors are generally supposed to be reckless spendthrifts, destined to end their days in a charity ward. And this be cause the general public does not Kknow that the actor or actrrss who plays sea- son in and season out keeps up glittering appearances with one hand and salts down money with the other. The star who plays forty weeks or more each season at a weekly salary ranging from $300 to $600 can amass a comfortable fortune in a few years. One elaborate set of stage frocks will last a woman star the entire season. Off the stage she may live as simply as she likes, provided, of course that she always makes a striking figure when in the public is here today and gone tomorrow ye The popular dramatic star has a mor¢ uniform income than those who shine in opera. A Calve may draw $2,000 night during her American season, but that sea son is short, and she receives no such price in Europe. The dramatic star may play night ten months in the year o more if it proves a cool summer. The operatic life of singers is short A fickl public i& quick to note signs of age in the voice and as new operas are brought forth ove the impressario must offer new favorites Women Scale a Dangerous Glacier in the Himalay; HAT WOMEN are no less daring as meountain climbers than men ha often been claimed on their be half It was demonstrated fully during the third expedition of pr. William H. Workman and his wifs to the higher Karakeram Himalayas in Baltistan the last summer. Thoy explorel the great Chogo Lungma glacier through out its whole course of thirty mile from its end at Arandu to its origin Lnon peaks above 24,000 feet in heizht They also followed to their scurces thre VIOLA ALLEN theatrical while the sunshine of youth high-salaried statements of foreign and has the instinct of thrift strong within as simply wastes little of her annual extraction hear none of her tate in her native province and lives hap retires to an profession in America are Joseph Jefferson years ago, ownership wpartment yield enormous ren union and a plantation in Louisiana whos estimated ronfidential Apartment its rentals will sufficient to keep this comfortably never return to the At present she is exploring in all forty delineation imagination lengths and widths, split in parts into huge HENRIETTA CROSMAN recovering from a sudden and scrious ill ness The Rogers Brothers, from the laughter of the publie, have made enou moncy to plunge heavily in real estate and will have a bona fide interest in the new the ater which is being built for them. Gus the elder of the two and who began his business career as errand boy to a haber dasher, recently paid $250,000 for an apart- ment house, William H. Crane is a shrewd investor in real estate, and Francis Wilson never touches anything in the way of invest ment on or off the stage, which is not a ‘sure thing."” Wilson is what New Eng- landers would call ‘“‘near,” for he wz none of his income on riotcus living stes Corse Payton is one of the richest men in the business, and every dollar has becn made in the popular-priced houses. ‘“‘Ten twenty-thirty' has been his tocsin, and thanks to unique advertising and indomi table energy, he is now owner of two Brooklyn theater a Boston house, and innumerable stock companies. When Ji wants to please his wife, who has worked faithfully at his side, he just tosses her the deed to a bit of metropolitan real estate. Mr. Payton, while not exactly on a plane with Mr. Mansfield, nurses his secret am- bitions. Last year while in Tondon he was chatting with some English actors conversant with his dramatic methods, and he mentioned his ambition to play the role of “Hamlet.” A jest that was not devoid of sarcasm was launched at this statement, to which the gentleman from Brooklyn replied quietly ‘*No, I may not be in Sir Henry Irving's class, but if I put on Hamlet, I can do something he cannot do—play it in my theater.” Maude 18 is undoubtedly the richest American woman on the stage today. Her contract with her manager calls for a lib- eral salary and a per centage of the re ceipts, In view of the fact that Miss Adams and the standing room only"” sign havc leng walked hand in hand, it goes without saying that her annual profits have been own enormous. She leads a very simple life with her mother, Mrs. Annie Adams, also an actress and of frugal nabits. They own both town and country property, and were Miss Adams to retire today, voun is, she would be fixed" for life Julia Marlowe, it is said, cleared between $70,000 and 375,000 last season on When Knighthood Was in Flower,"” and that is cue reason why the knowing ones claim g as sh that she preferred a convenient attack o nervous prostration to sinking hard-earncd funds in a production which promised no seracs or ice pinnacles of varied and curious shapes, bears large medial moraines eighty to a hundred feet high and ts course is interrupted in the upper portion by icefalls, through which a way is difficult to find Four peaks and two passes were as cended, varying in height from 15,000 t» 19,000 feet The last pass crowned an i« wall over 1,600 feet high, rising at angles of 45 to 60 degrees and covered with snow from a few inches to two feet deep. This furnished a climb of great difficulty. Every y MAUDE ADAMS. advertising has scored one tremendous success sk his own playwright plays are in has drawn in royalties from *“‘Lover $86,400, and the play this season is drawing his carliest ‘The Moth and the Flame,” has now reached to stock com panies at a weekly royalty. “The Climbers" Bingham's direction and a Clyde Fitch success is now considered Among the new plays Mr. Fitch will offer ‘The Girl with the Green Bloodgood Sandol Milliken and Mary Mannering is already scor JULIA MARLOWE bornness of Geraldine.” presumably foundation metropolis effeminate; is perfection friends say the proverbial rainy 000, As her new play, “The Eternal City,” * sum of $100 dramatists presented Lier second sea- son as a Frohman star, has found a money and is raising her weekly Thanks to her success in * . usefulness till draws royalties from ‘Aristocracy,” stock companies established herself in R T0¥alleN oL/ Rons d havé passed the $500 . draws royalties bigg mopolitan president’s Smith is a playwright distance from Smith prac should draw percentage Fahrenheit umulation was oblige wearisome encountere was detaine