THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN The Trouble Between Dliey and Duff over tho Salary of Mrs Padelford Special to THE HERALDExamlner Dlspatchl NEW YorK Dec Everybody knows what austere and correct young women go to make up the modest comic opera chorus and will easily imagine what a shock the first announcement to the girls grls playing with Dixeys Seven Ages of Man at the Standard theatre carried with it that Mrs Leslie Carter not Mrs Padel ford familiarly known as Bertie had been selected to do the part of Myra Van Twiller the companion part to that of Dixeys in the burlesque and would appear Monday night next The horror with which the chorus girls must regard the fair defendant in a Chicago divorce case will command ready sympathy The reference to Mrs Carter was all a mistake I is true she was never invited t appear in Mr Dixeys production but the shock had been administered When the girls learned it was Mrs Padelf ord and not Mrs Carter the angry waves of discontent subsided I is tree that Mrs Padelford was at onetime one-time a fair defendant i a divorce case but then it was not a Chicago divorce case Mr Rice then found new difficulties starIng star-Ing him in the face His first negotiations had been conducted with Sadie Mortimer He wanted her to do Myra and while the prospect of securing her was good Mr Duff the manager of the theatre offered to pay onehalf the prima donnas salary The negotiations fell through however and Mr Duffs offer could not be accepted When Mrs Padelford was taken into consideration con-sideration Mr Rice was anxious to know whether or not Mr Duff would enter into the same arrangement with respect to her A telegram was sent t Mr Duff and he answered very promptly in the negative and said he did not want Mrs Padelford on his stage Mr Rice went t work again and the difficulties were all smoothed down once more It was agreed that Mr Duff should not be called on for half of Mrs Padelf ords salary which will be o a week and that in return Mr Duff would broaden his ideas geographically speaking in regard to the divorce and that is the way the matter stands now