COMEDIAN'S WAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 7

COMEDIAN'S WAGE.

FOUR FIGURES EVERY WEEK. (BT TELEOBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFTItiaHT.)' ' New York, September 1. Harry Lauder, . the -well-known actor and vocalist, has been engaged for twenty wooks, boginning in October, at the. American and Lincoln Square Theatres, New York, at a salary of a thousand pounds per week. Harry Lauder is 38'j;ears of age. As a lad be worked in a flaxmill; and for ten years after that he worked in a coal mine. He still treasures the implements of his craft. Inhis leisure hours-he studied music, and acquired some local celebrity ,as a singer of sacred as well as of comic songs. "When he adopted the profession of the stage, he made his first remarkable success at Belfast man Irish "character" song, with' the refrain '"Call agen, Callaghan." He made his first appearance in London at Gatti's Music Hall, Westminster Bridge Road; but it was a subsequent engagement at the London Pavilion that established his fame. His appearance in New York in November, 1907, caused a furore. His best known songs include:' "The Lass o' Killiecrankie," "We Pairted on the Shore," "I'm fou, the noo," .