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Show SALARY QUESTION IS DISGUSSETJBY MACK Explanation Is Made Regarding Regard-ing Changes in Utah Stock Company. Willaril -Mack, head of the Utah theater the-ater ftook company, lat night iu&da a stututnunl explanatory of recent chaagoa in tho company at that hourc. Mr. Mack said: It seems that statomonts have been made by two of the former members of the cast which in effect aro that their salaries were cut so low as to make their weekly pay inconsistent in-consistent with living expenses. This, it would seem to me, is a reflection re-flection upon the vnluo of the services serv-ices of the men who took their places. As a matter of fact the two men in question were asked only to revert re-vert to the salary which thoy were receiving at the time botli were playing with the stock company at the'Colouial. When tho Utah opened in stock tho two were brought to this house by the only menus of getting peoplt; an advance in salary. sal-ary. Now the competition is gone and the business docs not justify a fancy salary lo anyone. The theater the-ater is a business proposition. The actual total amount of the reductions reduc-tions of both men was $20, tho amount the two had been advanced. The nay given their successors is just $2U lower rhnn that paid to the two men who have just left. Both men left me on the best of terms so far as I am concerned and neither were asked to quit the company. com-pany. Of course if they -wished to go that is their own business, but criticism of tho salaries paid seems to me to have been unwarranted. |