The billboard (Sept 1917)

ft 2* The Billboard 8EPTEMMR 15, 1917 BillS&ard been paraded to tbe front. Why 1b ilden days the theater was often aligned with tbe saloon element In politics, lodge, dub, nodal and buai- afaJrn, and playing to -Why? of public opinion these twenty-three below iero. As students of public events they certainly ere morally behind even to their own eiKn-i-. . — ;.y While they were trying- to win favor with the public Congress and the White House, the greatest seat of weather- policies In all the world, were de- ciding by a vote of 36S to 5 that booze enemy to this nation and that A. B. C. Audit Btttu of Cinohtiom performance or n r morals In a p Tbe psycholog a that of the barroom, selves and i mm t > f or. t i or less public United States, used to-eay: ' H A'p tlclan Is one who waits' until he * the people forming, and. when they. ready 1 to march, grabs a bass drum and runs like —— to get Jn front<so ho'can lead the parade." That Is Just as true of entertainers. The ones who-get the glory, the applause and the perquisites lead, while the ungulded yoi riffraff and the half wltn show, applause,* epithets and " debris at the donkeys and asses tbat bring up the tha rear. Why is It that no Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier? The song hasn't changed, but the tem- per of our people " -The singer of a song ehou iirerently from, what he ti singer should have tha i I be taught n an orator only i tire. But with a singer silence Is crushing. * The artistic tem- perament drives the artist to tears and defeat in song'and theme, while tbe same kind of temperament drives the timid orator to even defy death itself. Success Is not a matter of applause. Alas, .poor Yorlck. Hamlet is not tbe inly one who has soil!oqutied over the "GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS IS COMING;" SATS FRANK R. VANDERUP In a recent interview' Frank R.' Vanderitp. banker of New York, stated that In his judgment, whether we like It or not, or whether we get scared splaying symptoms of agitation, GOVERNMENT UIOADS belief lies in Federal rate n Governmental fining of rates seems to be one of the necessities which none can escape. He/ believes that with Federal rate-fixing private own- ership and profitable operation of railroads is out of the question. Mr- Vanderllp said tbat, altho some may regard this as tbe first step toward Socialism." he does not. but contends that It Is one of the nut r of changes already made, in the making-, and i born ef the conditions thruat upon the world by years ago, while the audi- ence reflected tbe conditions that today obtain In big business circles, commer- hlgher walks of life In every depart- An - entertainer Is a caterer, but he ought to cater to the beat to which he Is capable of reaching. Both of the souse acts mentioned ere capable of appealing to tor higher eals. and by so doing they would find appreciation instead of toleration. The audiences would laugh with them and --* -t them. ■ «rs is a,-book published by tho Home Correspondence School of Spring? field, Mass., entitled -Jla....^ the Pop- ular Song." It's a study of psychology Editorial Comment 9 program? Not If the au- peuplo are almost uncanny In their anility to detect the motives which ac- also In detecting a performer's prin- ciples by the work, that he has to offer. to. It welcomes Oh, Mr. Highbrow, youll learn a lot urn Mother Machree, and Alexan- ■r'a Ragtime Band has greater lesions _j tench you than .you ever dreamed possible. It's really a fundamental book on the psychology of advertising- Ifn just r. President of tbe great go with the crowd Is only to be one of the crowd. To be a real person Is to be classed as an anarchist. Some- where between these two Is the path that leads to success. Seal singers, great actors, worth- while entertainers all should have the same great purpose that actuates the orator. We should all take our work more seriously and ourselves less amused by" the spectacle or something happening before their eyes, and many of them. Including nearly all the women, desire to have their sympathies excited, but It is only a chosen few who go to the theater seeking food; for thought, and ready, therefore, to wel- come -psychologic .subtlety, and sophic profundity; TetthsBTe - — tho- great 1 have always satisfied each of tho three Ninety-eight per cent of Billy Sun- day's effects are produced by action and bis .organised, mobilised play on the sympathy of the audience. Readers' Column HDt« Iwom » William io.lln. u ™m 6j p. s^Csniiii^aBiMiun Co. ss, itimsty Sr. p. o., MARRIAGES