Miss Claxton is meeting with indifferent success in “Conscience.”
Not less than $30,000 was spent last evening in the theatres of New York.
John T. Raymond drew excellent houses as Colonel Sellers at the Brooklyn Theatre.
For the term of their appearance in “King Lear,” Lawrence Barrett will receive $1,200 a week; E. E. Sheridan, $1,000; Frederick B. Warde, $500.
The interview, invented by the elder Bennett, was becoming more and more popular. The Sun used it, not only as the vehicle of acquired information, but sometimes as the envelope of humour. Take, for example, this bit, printed in 1875, but as fresh in style and spirit as if it were of the product of a reporter of 1918:
INTERVIEWING VANDERBILT
ANOTHER REPORTER COMES AWAY FREIGHTED WITH VALUABLE INFORMATION
Commodore Vanderbilt was eighty-one years old yesterday. He spent the day in his Fourth Avenue offices, taking his usual drive in the afternoon. A Sun reporter visited him in the evening to inquire about a favorable time for selling a few thousands of New York Central.
“This,” said the commodore, slowly and solemnly, as he entered the drawing-room, “is my birthday.”
“Indeed!” said the reporter. “Do you think the preferred stock——”