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Show Business Men In Theatricals. . It is said that the great number of business busi-ness men who are interested in theatricals theat-ricals are not drawn in, as it is usually supposed, by the love of some stage affinity, affin-ity, but that they owe their position as backers of theatrical enterprises almost wholly to tho desire to make money. Theatrical The-atrical managers usually go into the dry goods district for backers when they find it necessary to secure a liberal amount of capital. The earnings of successful plays are so swift and enormous that the most conservative of business men are influenced influ-enced by them. Many a long established, thoroughly disciplined and liberally equipped equip-ped dry goods house in this city clears less than 130,000 a year for the head of the firm, though the reputation of the bouse may be excellent and Its credit first class. ' To show the hard working head of a firm of this character detailed statements of the earnings of plays in sums varying from $50,000 to (70,000 a year on an investment invest-ment of 14,000 or $5,000 is to cause tho bus-ness bus-ness man to sleep restlessly. It is not true that all backers of plays and theatrical enterprises en-terprises are what are technically known us "angels." Not infrequently tho superior supe-rior commercial sagacity of the business man enables him to seoure the lion's share of the yroslt, New York Sun. , . |