MRS LANGTRY'S SALARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1093, 7 June 1882, Page 2

MRS LANGTRY'S SALARY.

The special correspondent of an American paper disowning Mrs Larigtry's extraordinary succoss in. "Ours" says:—' •'Apropos, you may not hare heard of LaLangtry'g terms to provincial managers -sixty per cent on the gross, she to furnish nothing but self and company, and expecting new scenery, expensive building and advertising, the theatre, gas, &0., 1 from the management. Many provincial managers are hastily • declining with thanks, If the Lilly asks these stupendous rates at home, what on earth will she try to extractfrora the American managers it being a well grounded impression among English theatricals that to seoure a profit on an American engagement, just three times the London rate of payment should be demanded? But I fancy there is truth in what I hear of Mrs Langtry'a own estimate of her own histrionic abili Hies. Those who claim to be in her confidence say that the lady is perfeotly well aware of the ephemeral nature of her hold upon the public, and that she means to' make all she can out of her first send-off, convinced that her repeated engagements if any, will be but a shadow of what haß gone before. • In other words she knows thataotressos as good as herself are playing tor 10 dollars a week, as walking ladies all over the civilised world, in various' languages, and the only thing which makes her of more value in the money market than they is the rocore of her sooial successes. Therefore it behoves her, as a prudent woman, to make her harvest while the sun of her sensation shines through the artificial brillianoy of the foot-lights. • '