Show ST STAGE PEOPLE IN TOUGH TOUCH LUCK Almost Actors and Act Actresses Actresses on Broadway N Y Seeking Employment New York Nov 16 evil days for stage people and the theatrical business It Is estimated In theatrical circles that almost actors and ac actresses actresses actresses tresses are out of work ork Actors and actresses may be seen daily in Broad Broadway Broadway Broadway way vainly making the rounds of ot the agencies The financial stringency the dearth ot of o satisfactory plays the steril sterility sterilIty sterilIty ity of the playwrights and the con construction of too many theatres have combined It appears to bring about a serious condition of affairs In the the theatrical theatrical theatrical world A record of failures was established in September and October for SO 80 per percent percent percent cent of ot the new serious plays were fiascos The authors of these plays comprise the most successful writers In their class The companies which were gath gathered gathered gathered ered for these plays were disbanded and few of the players have found new engagements Meantime many road companies have returned d having found the season a bad one As the actors and actresses have suffered so have stage hands and theatrical em of all classes Daniel Frohman says that until mon money money money ey conditions Improve there can be no Improvement and that plays of strength and originality must be written by the playwrights before managers can be induced to Invest thousands th of dollars In them Mrs L L Fernandez one of the chief theatrical agents in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York says that the theatrical business is in a state of actual stagnation and other theatrical agents here agree with her |