| 单词 | playhouse pay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplayhouse pay playhouse pay n. now historical payment to an actor which is apportioned according to number of actual performances. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > money paid to actors or entertainers playhouse pay1790 treasury1885 1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life I. 146 The theatre being for the first month opened three nights in a week, my salary was only fifteen shillings as play-house pay, and when got to four nights, merely twenty shillings. 1845 Bentley's Misc. June 600 In the year 1728 a first-rate singer, according to play-house pay, which means the actual nights of performance, could command no more than forty-five pounds annually. 1973 K. A. Burnim et al. Biogr. Dict. Actors, Actresses 1660–1800 II. 340 He was arrested for debt, he said, and imprisoned in Marshalsea for eight weeks; his playhouse pay had been stopped—something not previously done to actors, he claimed. < as lemmas |
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