Variety (April 1919)

:«--»;if.? Private and Confidential Dialog Between ABE POTASH (BARNEY BERNARD) & MAWRBSS PERLMUTTER (ALEXANDER CARS) u . ■ :;"3s -'■: ■- , /'4fc; ■■•£•*■ yti .. . ■ (:>.-i . is :*• ■y The Profession is respectfully invited to Eavesdrop ABE: I got to surprise you, Mawruss— MAWRUSS. What are you gonna do, Abe, maybe pay for the lunch this time? ., ABE: Schmoos. This is business. I'm gonna run it a competition to John D. Ro'cken- heimer. I'm in the oil gesheft. MAWRUSS: It takes a smooth promoter to get away on an oil deal, Abe. What's the name of the swindler? ABE: His name is Lou Macloon, and.he ain't no swindler. Macloon is fishgull agent MAWRUSS: You mean fiscal agent. ABE: Yeah. Anyway he's agent of the Texas Prairie Oil & Gas Company. MAWRUSS: Oh, there's gas in this, too, eh? I can understand why Macloon is in on it. I'm out. ABE: Sure you're out. Nobody is home by you. Listen, rosher, I'm not selling you, I'm just telling you. Listen! A feller a few months ago wants to buy for me stock in this here Hog Creek oil company—$100 a share. And my religion wouldn't let me do it If it was only a company by some other name. The same stock today is worth $5500 and me with the no cents a share. But, now comes this Texas Prairie Oil & Gas. They have a place to drill a well in Ranger, Texas, where the oil gesheft makes millionaires overnight—just like cascarets. And since I'm in the oil business I can't sleep nights,. I'm afraid I'll be made a millionaire and won't know it. But I ain't a sales- man in this firm. I'm a director. Honestly elected director. MAWRUSS: If you're a director, then I want to be a director. You ain't got no right to invest in anything and get elected a director without I'm in on it. ABE: Why don't you keep your eyes open like I do? This T. P. com- pany ain't an investment, any all. It's, now, what you call it a gift Them Texas fields has got more oil that Al Woods is got productions. MAWRUSS: How much is stock in this here,* now, concern? ABE: Well, if you promise not to let it out, I'll tell you. It's $10 a share. Every time the oil spouts it costs more. And oil, is spouting now worser than Louis Mann in the Friars' Club. MAWRUSS: Tsnuff. More spouting than that ain't Well, I don't be- lieve in gambling, but where can I get some of this here easy money stock? .•.:.? i; ABE: Koosh. This ain't gambling, anymore than playing poker with Walter Kelly is gambling. You just cut out the coupon from the ad- vertisement in Variety and send the money to Macloon at Dallas. He's' playing the oil circuit. But, be sure and don't let it get out among the company, or I'll have to put a stock breaker's tickler in the dressing room. . • MAWRUSS: Did you ever know me to give anything away? ABE: Absolutely not. $ !'■'! Li'r''-i-l. Texas Oil Is Making Millionaires Every Day :$% Magazines, newspapers, the movies have been spreading the story of this wonderful new oil Held far and wide. It is probably the greatest and most sensational oil strike in the history of this country. Fabulously rich wells are being bought In as fast as the drillers can drive their tools to the phenomenally rich oil sands deep down in the bosom of old mother earth. Ranger, Eastland, Burkburnett, Hog Creek are some of the names made famous by this wonderful find. Ranger is a forest of derricks. Acre lot drilling sites have been sold for thousands of dollars. The Texas & Pacific is said to have refused FORTY MILLION DOLLARS from the Standard Oil for HALF its Ranger holdings. Wells that are pouring out thousands of barrels a day are common. And oil is selling for $2.25 a barrel. We have three wonderful leases: RANGER, DUKE-GOR- MAN, SHACKLEFORD COUNTY. At Ranger we adjoin the townsite. We want to drill it right away. We arc sur- rounded bv production and it looks like a SURE SHOT. At DUKE-GORMAN we are in direct line with the Knowles well, famous for coming in 2,800 barrels, or at the rate of over 12,000,000 a year profit FROM ONE WELL. In Shackle- ford we are surrounded by Empire, Sinclair, Cosden, Okla- homa Producing and The Sun Companies properties. We are offering a small block of stock in our company at PAR ($10 a share) to raise money for drilling the Ranger property. We all expect this lease to make us fabulously rich. You can share our hopes and our profits by helping us realize our dream and furnishing part of the money we need. INVEST YOUR SPARE MONEY. NOW IS THE TIME WHEN YOUR MONEY MUST EARN MORE. If you have dividends coming in every month, you dont have to worry about lay-offs, cuts and split weeks. Think, during the sum- mer, if you nave a regular income, you can run down: to the ocean with the family every day. But, remember, this is a gamble. We are gambling. with you. If wc get oil. we get dividends and YOU get dividends. So why not take a chance with real oil men—no promoters—all experienced producers? Gamble from $10 to $1,000 with us. Right next to our holdings .are those of the Texas ft Pacific Coal & Oil Co. Several months ago their stock was selling from $80 to $103. Then came the great oil strikes, and the stock of that company Is today quoted at $1,575 per $100 share. So you see? it Is being done every day. We are in Dallas and if you know someone playing in the town, ask them to call on us and investigate our holdings. We will sell only 9,000 SHABE8. // we tell it ALL,. U roill give us enough money to drill to the Ranger oil sands, down nearly 1^,000 feet. If we don't tell U ALL, vae won't start drilling and all money will be returned that has beta' subscribed. We won't start anything we can't /Irtish. And t<* art comfidmt that there are at least 9,000 people who u-Hi flomble SiO each- with us to drill this Ranger welt. Oil mm believe this it a SURE BHOT. And we think you ' will gamble with us. Honest, we don't think this stock will last ten days, our leases are all paid for; we Hove no debts; there are no prior claims on our earnings. We have no talaried officers. We offer you the same stock as we hold ourselves. If you want to Join us, write TODAY reserving- the number of share* yom would like. We will then send you full par* ticulars about the leases, their locations, the prospects fop : each, the men behind the company and bank references. All you will want to know. If you arc satisfied that this is ii n exceptional opportunity, then you can take up your reser- vation. If not, you are under no obligations. _ NOTE:- To INSURE your getting the stock you want, we should suggest that you send a reservation fee of $1 pet share. If you decide not to take the stock, we will refund this reservation fee, upon request. It is only naked as an evidence of gopd faith and to bind the stock you want Unless reserved by a first payment, we cannot guarantee to hold the stock for you. Ffrsf come, first served. In event of oversubscription we reserve right to return reservations. '■FJ TEXAS PRAIRIE OIL AND GAS COMPANY BARNEY BERNARD, Director southland life bldg. LOUIS O. MACLOON, Fiscal Agent DALLAS. TEXAS USE THIS COUPON TEXAS PRAIRIE OIL &OAS CO. 315 Southland Life Insurance Bldg., Dallas, Texas Please reserve for me shares of the stock of your company and send me fall particulars about your company, holdings, leases, officers, etc. It is understood that if I am satisfied I shall have the privilege of buying these shares at $10 a share (par value), no matter what the price of these shares may be at the time. If I am not satisfied, this request in no way obligates me to take this stock. » (V) NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE NOTE: la view of the per pries offer, this most He soespted within flftem days from dste. 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