Show World (December 1908)

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THE SHOW WOREI^ December 19, 1908. WESTERN SKATING ASSOCIATION AND ITS WORK and kindred sports among skaters Officials Not Paid. There are no salaries attached to position, and the officers and members By JULIAN T. MISMANAGEMENT OF RINKS IS A FATAL ERROR Rink managers whom I have met this plenty of easy money in it. Some of these past year, while pl.-iying vaudeville, claim go out for two or three weeks to learn that that business has dropped off to a great while they were well received in their extent and they predict the end of the home rink, such reception by strangers is skating game. But I find that this pessi- a highly difficult thing to obtain. Pat- mistic opinion is held only by managers rons seeing a good skating act and then a who mismanage. If rink managers were to get into closer touch in each separate state, organize as- . •• — correspondence sociations and By HOWARD FIELDING