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Show GEORGE AOE S INCOME Comedian Lennox Says It Amounta to 38000 a Week. Acconllrg to FYe.1 tnnox. the comMlnn. whu Ik this wiek i.res'ntln,- Or, III 1'ij-rs' at the Orph'um. Ueorge AUe la iiiBklna tZOOO a wrrk In royalties on his plays, enmlc operas and book. Mr. I-nti x possibly Is In position posi-tion to know, a he an.l Ale were chum In the ol.l ilaj beore the y.iunK newsjiajver nan achieved faxnr. Ade wrote his sola vaudeville vau-deville skit for Lennox nn, I presented II to him last June with the remark. 'V'.u villi nay. r own a horse of your own until vou (tet a play." Mr. Lennox sat night assured The Tribune that th. pla 11 really contained some leaves from his own life and was th- Outcome f a etof) h tol l Ade In th Holland house. New York. when th, subject was tlrst broached Kre.1 Lennox Is a great hs.n1 at spinning yarn III atagrlrmd experience! Include comedy com-edy Irad with the famous I.tta and eighteen other years of operatic and musical comedy su,.cec Th li hi nrot appearance ln vau-ilevlllo. vau-ilevlllo. When he Fits dov n to spin tiige jams Ihe-i-e Is no tlllnK when he will gft up. Like his perrorniaiic in vaudeville, hi nnn--dotet are of the boiled-down tabloid form Hire or. u f. vv of them as told last nlirht to the Inn nse enjoyment of thoac gathered In the rr.annr'i ofllct at the theater. "It di ye-ah and yi -uhs ago. when I thought I was a great actor. We wero storming storm-ing the country from Ashtabula to Navasota. playing Vh Do W, men Marry.' or something some-thing equally dramatic At I'opinr itiutr. Mo . i w.v takrn slrk and my Important role was intrusted to the property man. Kver utter, during all that long season, the property man played niy pnrt ind I hustled props. "Once when I actually happened to be out Of a Job n very rare occurence In the profession. profes-sion. I assure you I telrgrapheil a prominent inanag'-r. whose name shall nol now see print I In v.- you anything for me In your com-I com-I ,in The manager wired Lock: Would not hao you at any price To whleh I repll-d by wire: Tirms accept d; will open Mudu ' Per .u see I had lo eat." |