Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-06 | Page 9 | Old Time Actors Got Only $35 a Week

i JOLD 'JTM 12 AOTOIiS GOT ONLY $35 A WEEK (Uy International News Service.) LONDON, Miss Kate Terry, sister of Ellen Terry, and the first of the famous theatrical family to appear on the stage, makes much of a comparison compari-son between salaries paid to "stars" in her early days and the present figure. fig-ure. "I appeared in Manchester about fifty years ago. In my company were Charles Wyndham and Nellie Farren. They certainly did not receive more than 535 per week each, and I remember remem-ber the famous comediene Mrs. Kecley telling mo that at the height of her caroer she never got more than $S0 a 1 week.