A COMEDIAN'S SALARY.
By Telegraph.—Pies? Association,— Copyright. .. New York, September 1. ! Harry Lauder, the famous Scottish i comedian, has been engaged for 20 weeks, beginning in October, to appear at the American and' Line oil Square Theatres, New York, at a i salary of £1000 a week. He . apI pears at both,theatres nightly. '. l Harry Lander has been a phenomenal success at the London music halls and in' America, which country he ■ visited, last year. The salary, named is the highest ever paid to .a. vaudeville* artist. Several have made contracts at £500 a week, in- | eluding the late Dan Lone and Eva Tail-' I guay, one of ;fjhe American favourites,' "Little Tick," who came out to Australia under Mi'. Rickards.'* engagement about i three years ago, in said to have. been paid ! £250 a week. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13845, 3 September 1908, Page 5
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