Billboard advertising (Aug 1910)

'T5e Billboards AMERICAS LEADING AMUSEMENT WEEKLY YiOmat ZZn. No. 32. GDrcmilATI—SEW YORK—CHICAGO August 6^ 1910. •i^ ©IT /toS On Amusement Lif^ ■. n^.^^^ : Donald Brian aaya that when he waa on the roaA wMl The Merry tVldow Campany. they gal Into Kwn^an City In mid-wtaiter. and m. terriflc .<now-sturm was raj^ing This storm kept up pracUcally mil the week, with tntenrala et dear but very cold weath- er. One nlsht. ma- Mr. Ejflan waa atrolilny alone * anow-covered street after the ewcalnc perfonnanee. he ob- Om alMlc'vr that made it almost Impoaatble for him to navlcate. Mr. Brian felt com- miseration for the atrasser. He was te took the man be took htm by the arm and asked him where he lived. The man muttered hia reply and Mr. Brian placed his arm aboot the fellow, who appeared to be a laborer of aome sort. 4eMfMlMA t* aa* Mm aafely home. At tta«.:;panMr-4nw.alOM Jlr. Brian hivrfrc«-n to tiM toeatloa of the a4dre« «!*•■.'wUto OM aUvaitar liMMate aat on the frosea steps ootslde. *n.» mff%^m^^ the aetor spedflcally and. thoush It waa some half-dosen or;aiore Uocta ftom that point, he de- termined not to desert tha fallow bow iQuUiaJwd Jtartea to help blm. so they went slipplns, slidtav aM< plnlwg«'Bww ttm mlit! together. From the time the atraasw aramblcd lila addreas, he never uttered a word. Brian tried to talk to hint, but receiving no reply to his little amenities, he. lapsed Into alienee himself. In due coarse they reached the (iven address and, aa the Smt Ooor was • plaee of bualheaa. and was. «C flOMMw closed at that hoar «( tt« aliiht. Mr. ejrlaa concluded that tala eompMrtoii with the dlsalBeas'mnst Ihre tai the flat above. The only a c ce as to the rooms on the second floor was by means of a lone fliKht of steps leading to an outside porch. As they started up the steps tofeUier. the straaser opened his mouth. Oiled bis laaca. and ahonted "Oh Mom." Brla» MMPOwt^IlM - - Uu^'taMlllSramM^^^tMlBplM-iHttm WirtMitfiw waa MkrtlBho Lowaade. the principal equestrian with the John RoMmob Ten Big: Wkumm this aeaaon. and famous the world over for his rtdlnc, says that ha.ma-ialMd on a farm in New Bnsland, and that up to the time he was '<WMya'y«an-old he had never seen cireaa. At about ttata ace he visited a 'mall wacon show that came to a nearby town and. like all boya. he save himself up for aeveral weaka to in- dnlcence la attempu to perform feaU •r skill and darlar. The most uncom- fortable of these, he says, and the one that had direct conseauenee was that of bareback rldlac The old farm wkMt iMd baen used to belns ^..ta the eoavoatlonal numner. adM^taka kindly at all to youac Martlnho's stnaU of staadlns and Jumping "■■■'■■>» ribbons while the equines were In motion. It seemed almost with •nuleo anrothottcht tlKH the most decrepit of tbcae one day rushed preclpl- taMy t >t !iii g| |;. tfc a -m m m t door, while the jrouns aovlee was ridlns like Tam OShaater. with Me bead toward the hone's talk Of course, he was scraped nrr and picked himself up. bruised aM. aMdMbt ! Ik* oinaitaiMlL tewvvwr. did not deter him from his determlaatM to. tM«k rewarded In the hicheat measure. : . De Wott Chlcaco, i< Mft to tM divar case In the Wellington Hotel. r attendant aald. sweetly: "I think there was a ceatleman looking for **A geatlamaiiT** sdM Hopper. "Tea, a gentleman." she repeated. "That Is strange. There are often ladlea loo king^ tor m*. but aeldom a santa «lady." " ' "Well. I dent know whether It was you he was looking for." said the young lady, "but he described you as a very tali gentleman and, of course, (girls behind cigar caacs are used to flattertag men) and I Just Nmed that It was yoo." . "I an act ae tan." aald RoMVW. n am Mbr tM fiMt tiMMjr.** John L. Springer, who is handling the press back with the John Robinson Show tbla season, relates an experience of an unusual kind that befell him in Covington. Kentndcy, while the show was piayin? there recently. Mr. Springer was walking along toward hia hotel after the evening perform- ance, when a man accosted him In front of a aix-storr tenement building, and arind to ha aaaMad-to his rooms wpatalra. Sprtagar' 'la always willing to be of assistance to any one In need of it. so he hooked his arm around the waist of the drunken stranger and. after carrying him up five long flights of stepsi, he reached the top. out of breath, and there being only one door visible he pushed the Inebriate through It. glad to get rid of him, and returned to the sidewalk. To his amazement he was again accosted by an individual looking very much like the one he had Just carried upstairs, and again he was asked to constitute himself a human elevator. Marveling at the coinci- dence. Springer filled his lungs for another long climb with a one-h u ndred - and-elghty-i>ound handlcaii. Reaching the top again, the man ha^aaa WRanag grabbed him imploringly by the band. "Please don't pat me m that door. -- - _ — - - - ~ oazsled me up here awhile ago 1 " . - . Then Sprlogag-l the door a few alia a miuderw.- ha had threwa through yat iMir ha • John HavllB. of Stair aad Havlln. and the Grand Opera House and Bavlta BotM in Clndnaati. aaad'to apand.his summers on I<ong Island. But a year •r two ago his btnlMaa to CSaetaaatI made it impossible for him to leave the Queen City, ao he made the summer aa anaak: Uka->» haUdagr aa paaalhla. hgr ehartaring waters of tha. I of his. frienda-to with him. Now. whenever there wda party, the liquid refreshments Aowed freely. John says the Fountain of Ufe wasn't in It with the ice-box on the launch. They couldn't go very far either way on account of low water. But they managed occasionally to get out of sight of the smoke of the city chimneys. One day they bad a friend aboard who kept disparaging the stream, within the confines of which It was, of course, necessary for thcni to keep. Presently this individual became reconciled (The ice-box did It). He insisted on steering the craft. Others la the party atationed thSHMilria below the pilot house and threw dippers full of water upon htm. mueen. Ho iMBt calling that a storm was raging, and that the decks had better be cleared away. After a time he wanted to pay another visit to the Ice-box. so some one else took the wheel, and Just as the doughty pilot reached the deck, a seltzer bottle with the top Ued down waa Inserted ta hia ooat .cirtMr. Then, believing ho was on tha briny deep, he rushed about the deelt afteunng - that «hiv irata ta tha BMrt at a typlMMk - .- . . .liiit a«r M nCaaea to haUanra Uwi t Not long ago. while the Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows were playing a town, one of the side-ehow ticket sellers was approached by a typical Rube, who was tha manager of a five- cent theatre. After thoroughly in - specttag-tlM stand and eying the ticket man. ha aaM: "Say. young feller: be you with the show ?" "Tea." replied the dispenser of pastoboarda. "Well. X run a picter house, and want to get a growler to bark In front of my place." The ticket, man communicated to iBaaaatiaa. that ha «aa nmaiag neither a saloon aor ( that ha taak alaawhara for aasirtance. small Hey.