Show EXAGGERATION IN THEATRICAL BUSINESS In the tho November American Magazine Magazino Maga Maga- zino zine a prominent theatrical manager writes an an interesting article showing how ho actors authors and producers divide di dl- ide vide the peoples peoples' money lIe IIo gives s a detailed account of just how much it I costs to make a theatrical production I also aim gives tho the facts about many interesting theatrical successes and failures On the subject of exaggeration tion in the theatrical cal business he be says T There ere ma may be fifty producing m managers man man- n- n agers of standing in America If there thero are are areIl Ill I'll wager forty of them are practically practically practically broke and doing business on borrowed capital A f v fe w have havo made money and kept it Some Somo by being wise and getting ettin out like out like V g or Kemper who are credited on Broad Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way with having haying made mado the biggest cleanup and greatest getaway in hiss his tory because they thoy quit to the good following r the success of Tho Kreutzer Sonata The Tho Resurrection Paid in Full Fun and Seven Days Or ur William Connor who made mado a n fortune out of ot two Bernhardt tours of America and is ia putting the money moner into loft buildings building'S rather than back into thea thea- tres Joseph Grismer also aIM had the tho good sense to be content with the several hundred thousand dollars his interests in f Way Down East and anti The Tho Man of the Hour made him But those these instances instances in in- stances are so 80 decidedly exceptions to the rub rulo as to bo I positively ely famous On Or the tho other hand liand those who have havo neither won nor quit are arc literally too numerous to mention Mr Klaw KIa and Mr Brlan Erlanger er are aro rich men but man many of th their ir investments are aro outside the theatre William Harris has all he needs if not all aU he be wants The Sim- Sim bert bort brothers brothers' are well wen off ort George Georgo Co Cohan an and Sam Harris Hanis if they keep half of what they have o made will not want for a single reasonable thing that money can buy for them A. A H. H Woods has a fortune tied up tip in a n half dozen different enterprises But you Vou cannot go 0 much beyond these few and nd be he sure sura of or your ground when you enumerate the tho producing managers who are rich men and ana who stand a fair chance of remaining personally interesting to their heirs There is that certain ertain element ele ele- ele meat ment of pf insecurity that spec speculation lation breeds even oven with these though h the they are aro the craftiest and shrewdest est in the business David Belasco with all his bis success is is not a rich mans man Ills His productions productions t ons and the tho time ho spends on them frequently cost him more mora than thor they thov r return tum even en when the are successful r |