Show I Rich Actors and Actresses Little Lotta is declared to be the richest rich-est woman the on stage I heard her fortune put a day or two ago at 1000000 That is of course extravagant She is however worth all of 250000 and I daresay dare-say somewhat near 500000 In her earlier years on the stage Lotta experienced experi-enced no end of trouble in keeping her money Somehow or other it all vent But as time wore on Lotta contracted business busi-ness habits until now she is as capable a business person as anybody She has money invested in about every way stocks bonds real estate and I know not i what She is now thirtyeight years old I believe but she is full of animation and always a wonderfully happy little body She succeeded on the stage because she could not Ji > 1n if I I iF tiorfnnfltr ofn o1 for her to cut the capers that J she does u I for she cuts them off the of stage as well as on The richest man on the stage is doubtless Joe Murphy He is worth a cool 500000 if he is worth a dollar He was a poor Irish boy and started as a variety singer and dancer His one ambition has been to make money rather than fame as a distinguished artist He has stuck to Irish dramas and he has always al-ways played to big paying business while other shows have languished whie and died on all sides He has sung Only a Handful of Earth from My Dear Mothers Grave until it wrings tears from even himtears I of agony The song however touches the hearts of his audience every time without fail The women boohoo and the men demand a repetition Players who are satisfied with modest positions in the profession like to go with Murphy He expects them to do all that their contracts call for but he treats them fairly No body begrudges Murphy his prosperity for the reason that he his known every where as a square and upright man The poorest person in the profession aggre gates in the total ninetenths of the whole Tlllinn TnDctr > ll iq hn1u Lilian RI spl 1p1ho C any of the conspiiuous1ones AA U Ul She has as received a great deal of money but has never kept any of it and it said she has debts without end Fanny Davenport I hear has invested some money in one of the dramatic papers She has paper accumu hated a fortune and a very substantial one too She is probably worth 75000 or 100000 Brooklyn Union |