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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931.

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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

ACTRESS'S ENVIABLE £65,000 IN 6 WEEKS ECONOMY WAVE HITS FROM RUSSIAN OPERA

SALARY.

Part She Did Not Play

in the West End.

MISS HOFFE'S LAWSUIT.

An Experiment That Has Been a Success.

LYCEUM RECORD.

THE THEATRE.

Fighting the Slump by Percentages.

NO STAR" PLAYS.

Woat-End theatres, faced" with the slump that Summer usually "this year to meet the situation.

brings, are making a special effort

Reference to salaries of stage "aturs" was

In a six weeks' season 92,834 made in the 'King's Bench Division when the Lord people have visited the Lyceum Chief Justice (Lord Ilewart) and Theatre for the Russian Opera and a special jury. continued the hear Ballet.

A real economy wave has set in, Total receipts for the season will not only in production costs, but in Hoffe, the actress, against

Mr.!

players' salaries and even in theatre Gordan Harbord, the theatrical probe about £65,000.

rents..

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SHOES.

ducer.

IT

£2,100 was taken in one day, a

Miss Hoffe, who in private life is Lyceum record. Mr. Barbara Kathleen Florence

These remarkable figures in con- Oakshott, of Queen's Elm Square,nection with the experiment of Mr. Church Street, Chelsen, alleged that Llone! Powell and Sir Thomas Mr. Harbord had broken a contract Beecham in presenting this Russian. by which he agreed that she should

season of opera ballet were given play the principal role of Manuela me when I talked to a friend closely In "The Command to Love" when connected with the Lyceum, writes it was produced at the Savoy and The Stroller in the Evening News Daly's theatres,

in mail week.

The defence was a denial of the contract, and it was further pleaded that if there was an agreement it

was vold is law.

Her £50 A Week. Miss Hoffe gave further evid- jence in support of her case.

She said that "The Flying Fool" was the last play she appeared in at a West End Theatre before she played in "The Command to Love"

The method of presentation, he

said, together with the supremo artistry of the singers and the musicians, has been a revelation to London. He added:

Actors and actresses And that a small salary is better than none, especially when they ment it by a few weeks of intensive can supple.

Blm work."

Producers and managers are pre- senting plays with a new, sort of cast, best described as the "no-star" cast, and are either reducing prices or are letting the pit creep forward. into the stalls.

One of the most elaborate West-

Ead plays now running has a very low salary liet, although there are quite 40 speaking parts in it. No member of the cast is getting more "Your opera-goers here were than £50 a week, and the Vast quick to appreciate the blaze of majority are paid between £8 and colour of the scenery and costumes 516. at the Lyceum, and the wonderful movement of the chorus has been

Self-Protection.

No actor or actress who has ever

at the Aris Theatre Club, where it / tremendous factor in the auccess | earned, say, £300 a week can afford

was produced before going to the Savoy. Her salary in "The Flying Fool" was £25 a week. She was now playing "The Unforeseen" for £50 a week,

Miss Hoffe said that some of those who played parts in the play Fair at the Arts Theatre Club had other Black or Brown

engagements when the play was Shoes from $6.00. Black or Brown produced at Daly's. She did not accept. the alternative of the part of Marie Ann because she could not

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SPORTING GOODS

of

the season.

"Choruses "Too Static." "Choruses here have palled upon audiences because they have been Oratorios and choral too static. dinging have done a lot of harm to our operatic music, and have de- prived operas of movement in the chorus,"

I then learned that more than 100,000 people will have been en-

to have a contract which names a figure of £150. Hence the "per which is generally only a graceful centage" or "profit-sharing" system, way of reducing a salary.

By this system a player protects hia or her wage-earning reputation. Several stars are to-day working for less than half the salaries they are accustomed to ask.

The "proft-sharing" system was recently introduced at a theatra

get a promise that it would not betertained by this wonderful Rus- housing what most people believe to

altered.

Had it remained unaltered it would have been of the three prin cipal roles in the play. At Daly's Theatre the part was played by Miss Isobel Elsom, an actress with a high reputation in the West End,

sian company.

be among the most successful cur-

rent musical shows.

whose salary, Miss Hoffe agreed in he will have done three extra perimposed on the chorus.

answer to Mr. O'Sullivan, would be enviable to many people.

The orchestra alone has cost £1,100 * week. Chalinpine has

When receipts suddenly fell away drawn a fee of £600 for each per-

has given. He con- salary cut was imposed, in the formance he tracted to do two performances in form of this "percentage" arrange each of the six weeks, but actually ment, by which the salary list was haired although the cut was not so that he will have formances,

I know of an actress, whose usual earned $9,000 and is entitled to

salary is about £250 a week, whose every penny of it. "Reputation Prejudiced."

This musical experiment has been contract now shows that she is Sir Gerald du Maurier, the actor

L fine finan-earning a percentage of "mini- manager, said he thought that Miss rewarded by

When Challapine mum of 2100 a week."

In practice, that is simply a Hoffe had been prejudiced in hercial harvest. reputation by not getting the part doubled for the first time his two of Manuela after she had played it roles of Prince Galitzky and the salary of £100. at the Arts Theatre Club, and it had Khan Kontchak in "Prince Igor," THE LIANG YOU CO.. been announced that she would the Russian company broke all its

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Opening the defence,. Mr. O'Sullivan said that Mr. Harbord himself did not transfer "The Com- mand to Love" to, or produce it at, a West End theatre.

For some time he resisted offers for the play because he was anxious that Miss Hoffe and others of the cast should continue in the roles they occupied, but he found that theatre managers, on whose good Iwill he relied, began to insist on

changes in the cast. 1

The Offer to Miss Hoffe Although he was anxious that Mies Hoffe should play the part of faced with the Manuela, he was situation that others who were more concerned with the produc

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rights, wanted Miss Yvonne Arnaud in the principal role. In the hope of solving the problem. Miss Hoffe was offered another part.

In the circumstances Mr. Harbord contended that he had done his best to carry out his agreements, and when he found he had to chocse between the play not being pro→ duced at all or declining to insist on Miss Hofte taking her original part, he reluctantly chose the latter,

course.

Mr. O'Sullivan submitted that Miss Hoffe acted unreasonably in refusing the lesser, but still one of the principal, roles,

records by drawing to the box office Re less than £2,100. This was a record also for the Lyceum Theatre. It is estimated that the receipta by the end of the season will be

about £65,000..

*CLEAN UP THE

CINEMA."

Striking Criticism in

Abbey Sermon.

"Unless the cinema industry is

A

disastrous

cleaned up and raised to a healthy level, it will have effect, not only on the nation and the British Empire, but on the whole of civilisation.",

This was one of the striking sentences used by Dr. Percy Dearmer, the new. Canon of West- minster, preaching at the Abbey,

When he read aloud a list of film titles that contained such phrases as "Are Scotsmen Tight?" and The Honeymoon Express, the in- congruity of his words utlered in the Abbey startled his Hateners. He apologleed for reading suck titles "within these noble walls.".

He spoke of the temptation-on the part of film producers to exploit

* BUTTERFLY "WU. the weakest and more vicious ele

Marriage Contract. Annulled.

LONG DRAWN-OUT CASE.

Mias "Butterfly Wa, China's leading cinema actress was allowed by the Shanghai Special District Court to annul a marriage contract which she made with her fiancee, Mr. Ling Hsueh-

The actress has been fighting for Your months In the Court to secure a release from an agreement which

ments in human nature, and dealt also with dangers run by children.

"Parents at present, are helpless,"", ho.Bald. "There should be cinemaa overywhere where parents would be sure they could let their children go. in safety, and such places could well provide for adults at the same time. But the greatest danger is the evil done to independent young people from the uge of seventeen upward

"The Government has made an excellent beginning by the child- ren's cinema at the Imperial In alituto, but now that cinema in 20 crowded that it is difficult-to

she considered, would not lead to in a hundred more cinemas like

a happy marriage. Chinese Inter, are needed all over the country

est in the case was evidenced by and more after that. The munici

the crowded court rooms at each palit also shoul

for adults” an ̈well, ne

delivering Judgment for the There are man

Judge Chan Urdered Mr. Intellige In the oin TL 880 and $788.20' and very fine artists.)

wing to Miss Walter

claime" for a damages » was out

thece

Rent Reduction,

One theatre fa the West End which a year or two ago got £450 a week for rental for some 70 weeks on end, now takes every week, the first £200 taken at the box office, plus a percentage of the remaining takings. It is not getting much more-than a minimum-of-£200.

"Artistes are prepared to work in the theatre for less money, even to' the extent of 50 per cent. lesa, than they normally decept," said Mr. Alfred Zeltlin, the theatrical agent. "Managers do not like their artisles to work for the screen while appearing at the theatre, but they will allow them to do that if they can thereby get their service at a reduced rata."

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