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158 : “The Billboard DECEMBER 22, 1917 the public than tt would If It were not for the other. The same ts true of the lyceum and the Gramatic profession, Each is 2 movement of its own working in its own way to its own clientele, but when we come to stady the audience we fini that {t is almost identically the same people who patronize the ene that are the Dackers of tho other, ‘What are the greater lessons we should learn from this stady of showmanship and service: ‘What are the larger lesson we may learn frou: the work that we are about to enter upon? Lee ‘The Circus and the Chautauqua (Continued from page 15) UNDER THE SOLE ‘MANAGEMENT OF DAVID BELASCO * SEASON 1917-18 = i Boch etecides = foes ire gets © 2 | one eet = Bee ated = Zee seieeeaens cre = See Se re oe = en = SSasE ae os Seege ES ae foo ieee = Spot Seprermcoe ets Zao Seerars » iSsseeree ae POLLY WITH A PAST” zc ees scar ‘ment to a noble animal who lived to make oar|} ill gallty of nature we bave the cause of the “etruggle for existence,’ “More people enter every trade and profession than can possibly succeed. Scareely Atty per cent of those who graduate in law, dentistry or medicine ever hang out # shingle. “IE im the professional and business Ife, as ta the lower orders of life, there are many who strive to the few who win, many who are called A COMEDY BY GEORGE MIDDLETON AND GUY BOLTON With the Following Cast: 66 99 Dos. TIGER ROSE = A MELODRAMA OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST BY st 10 os With the Following Cast: ten by de ‘What is to hinder the big cireus from doing ‘ol J = lar in st for existence—in {ts ola Lenore Ulric, William Courtleigh, Willard Mack, Thomas Findpre apety gern eeymeerateciy lay, Pedro de Cordoba, Fuller Mellish, Edwin Holt, Siege ir “SLE wee marti, ecieays te Calvin Thomas, Arthur J. Wood, Edward “Gait or least tt, who go down, aod tat to . Mack, Jean Ferrell. this inexorable law of nature there is and can “THE BOOMERANG” A COMEDY BY WINCHELL SMITH AND VICTOR MAPES With the Following Cast: a Byron, Martha Hedman, Wallace Eddinger, Ruth ShepIbert 4 Keys, Richard ien, Marguerite Chafios, Soka N. Wheeler, Dorothy. Megrew, John Clements and Others. ‘Where better can we study nature than by & # BELASCO THEATRE H Géry, Ind., bas moch of this already, New ‘York City bas spent several years installing some of the Gary ideas as a pert of the echool srs tem of ts great educations! fabric. The schral board spent $0,000,000 on thle, after bav-! fog spent many thourands trying to find oat whether Superintendent Wirth had started Gary fand parcel of thelr dirty campaign ‘against the Mayor of New York, and dragged it tnto polities, CITY OF NEW YORK ee eelettetctetteteleteteteletatebeteltettestetebeteltel st “There's a Divinity that sbapes our evi, rough hew them as we will” ‘Nations are but groups of individuals, and we ‘will know more of nations when we know more about Hons and tigers, Dears, snakes, clephants, byenss and polecats. ‘Then why pot Jearn the laws of life by which each of these COMPLIMENTS OF ‘Sfhe cheep Das been used as an offering for te J.C. WILLIAMSON, Ltd. ||222 === ’ Main Offices: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA the lies we mt expect to'be tested ee bes vote of 28 to T the board of education appro SERRE GEE senate Dron CLYDE MEYNELL AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND: Theatres |} |‘ivennuessuacece a Her Majesty’s, Melbourne shad ready eccoulsied tv the leet tree an tos bevtarner Sato toe ae tess Woes of fs Cl ied entb Gury mestings. a5 ‘Theatre Melbourne toe setoseast Seca winch tos apemieg te see ‘children were led Into riots that ended in their Williamson Theatre, Melbourne the Russians what they are and not what we bad arrest on the charge of throwing stones at public | His Majesty's, Brisbane hoped they were, Sect burdingn Once move we faced the dunges| oe oN re tn atria the ‘own can ice se Oe ae ae Opern Howie, Wallington, NZ a ee ree rat Juidea poblc oplaton te Wlced by the ave thew. onde Her Majesty's Theatre, Auckland, N. Z. + |] | & Deart can not refrain from paying sand adults so easily brought together in ‘the superhuman efforts of ber sons? There is 3 H | Europe—Director J. A. E, MALONE bac —ead that had already proven thelr worth in each ‘Why has England succeeded as sbe bas, apd all U.S. A. and Canada—Representative WALTER G. JORDAN a yablic school where they had been given 2 Dut falled as sho has, when tbe crocial “test chance.” Times Building, New York came? It's the same ualversal law at Work. Go study the ant, thon sloggard. In 1855 Helorich Helne, the great German poet, wrote a prophecy which bas all but been folfiled tn our day. What was it? In speakiog A MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR ‘of what Goethe proclaimed, ‘The Prussians are Grol by, nature; zation wit make ie f Wanted for Our 29th Season, Opening ]}| tii exes: sorecca the ata egret = Gar of the Tetooe but It has not bere able to the Last of April, 1918, at Sioux City, lowa J | seis 1: s08 wics tie crose—che tatinman that fetters It—shall be broken “then the ferocity of the oldtime fighters, the frenzied exaltation fe 2 great Institution, and we ought to belp It succeed, not charge it @ Hcense for the privilege of benetiting us."" ‘There 13 n0 reason why the circus and the chat ‘tauqus should not supplement tbe work that does, ‘They are not competitors, but each is a component part of the other. Each Is an educator for the other. Each makes the other hustle to improve its own offerings and to do more for -No. 1 musicians, B. & O. and stage; emall woman for Eva, women for Eliza nd Ophelia. Colored people that can sing and dance, dining room boys, pola sul working mon for canvas’ Last year’s people: write. W.G. DICREY, Mane’ [pcr ine Demerters. where veslos re ot a sgt Terry's Uncle Tom's Cabin ar Tent Shows, Lock Box 165, Little || Teen—sna ales thle day will surely come—the jioux, Iowa. : old war gods will arise from thelr legendary tombs and wipe ‘the dust of ages from thelr