STAGE SALARIES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 27 November 1908, Page 3

STAGE SALARIES.

Persons of a real intimacy with the stage says the "Manchester Chronicle," read with infinite amusement the question of employment and its remuneration. The reading public swallow such morsels as Lander's thousandpound salary, for instance; and > articles about the "stupendous salaries of music-hall favourites are penned, which make • every girl in a lodging-, house kitchen long to be a serio-comic singer.. Next day Fleet Street rings with the bitter cry of starving chorus girlsfrom Maiden Lane* in the Strand. The fact is, there is some truth in each tale. As to Lander, if half a thousand pounds finds its way to him for each week's work in America h© will bo a lucky man. The state of the rank and file of the theatrical profession in England at the present time is too awful for description. There are hundreds mion hundreds of men and women with a certain right to call themselves actors and actresses nearly starving. Some of them hail with 'shouts of joy thy offer of work at 30s or £2 a. week, some prefer to keep on starving. On the other hand, for a limited number of popular favourites there is work for a certain ■number of weeks each year, at wages that permit them to regard long vacations with equanimity.