The billboard (Dec 1917)

DECEMBER 2, 1917 ‘The Billkboa THE MOST TALKED OF SHOW O THE BIG SENSATION F THE YEAR eee GUS HILL'S cry MINSTRELS WITH THEGREATEST ARRAY OF MINSTREL TALENT EVER CONCEIVED. ALL THE NEW AND OLD FAVORITES IN THIS ONE BIG ORGANIZATION GEO. WILSON W. H. THOMPSON JAS. CORRIGAN ARTHUR GROS EDDIE MAZIER JOHN P. ROGERS ~ JOHN BURKE FRANK HANSCOMB The Following Sure-Fire Successes: Breaking All Records: MUTT AND JEFF HANS AND FRITZ In Active Preparation, the Surprises of a Century: ADAMLESS EDEN ED LATELL ° JACK McSHANE ‘THOMAS HUGHES JOHN LOVELY BRINGING UP FATHER STOP, LOOK, LISTEN SPIDER AND THE FLY SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR MME. REJANE FEMALE MINSTRELS WANTED AT ALL TIMES—Everything That’s Good in Musical Comedy and Minstrelsy GUS HILL, Columbia Theatre, New York given right of way to the deadbeat who bas no, regard for hls fellow-actor, ‘Thore of us that do ‘ot encounter very many hardships are satisied| to continue on our way, leaving it to those ‘rectly concerned to amellorate conditions, Dut. the ultimate result will affect the professior 1. EXPECTATIONS almost seen tte day, tte fate 1s inevitable.” you will hear the pesal tures encleavely forthe aimple renson hi tn termed the “poor man's’ amuseme something well within the reach of the ey Staged attraction during. the year? And should we direct our energies to refresbing and rebuilding of the tab the fu {THE CONNECTING LINK 4s saggeated that the theater manager and Booking agent come to a better understand. ‘Mmammoch as the latter 1s ‘the company’ and if coffee is delivered thra correction of the actly the sort of an attraction bis agent 1s tog bim, In the event that A MERRY XMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR eer EMPIRE THEATRICAL AGENCY GEO. B. GREENWOOD (Greeny), Gen. Mgr. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. We Make Sample Cases and Trunks TO ORDER EXCLUSIVELY ‘Trunks, Cs , Trays, ete., to meet your SPECIAL NEWS. Give inncls mecaurements or you. Pear! & Race, oes. | ERNEST PIRKEY, THE oC SARTON MO AGENT | stad Us 8 eanecle nad we wil be pleased: to quote ‘upon, SCHNEIDER BROS. Cincinnat!, Ohio. ‘R. ADDRESS, CAI me anny New Year to all Ue'Boog wie are doita ctr Be Yor Wis god Ola Ge Be carried im stock they should be discarded and] replaced with ealable and dependable merchanaise, Having effected a perfect understanding between agent and theater manager certain to what extent the company ganization will prosper under ordinary condl the common performers that have been given the privilege to work om her husband's show, and there-| the result of the fallure to use the small amount ‘of grey matter she possesses and force herself to enjoy, instead of detest, the surroundings her Uttle Dead becomes entirely too large for her “Busband, even tho respected and admired by his performers, who refuse to wit stand such unnecessary ' impositions, finally {brows up the sponge, in order to keep peace tn time to do it all over again. In time wifey be‘comes even too disagreeable to work on the same stow with other performers that possess more ability than herself, and,\taking thelr bagege, they become tourlsts, roaming frot than they can give legitimate away. “Professional Jealousy” should not be discussed at length as it is the most absurd pecatfarity @ regular performer can Imagine. People—tncluding, of course, rival comedians—af icted with the above mslady make themselves ‘unbearable and eventually becowe chronic agitators, one of the most dangerous enemies to th profession. Agitators and the Jealous element have done thelr share of wrecking, and It should de in order to suggest something of a brotherly ove nature of the exercising of better jugdment with a view of eradicating some of the present obstacles and submit to at least a professional ‘understanding. In conclusion It les within the power of our combined professional forces to determine the fate or success of the tab idea. “A Uttle wore ‘persistence, a ttle more effort, apd what seemed hopeless fellore may ‘tara to glorious success, There ts 00 fallure except in no longer trylog. There is no defeat, ‘within, no really tusurmountable our own inherent weakness of pur ‘Elbert Hubbard, ‘The tab is no longer an experiment bat an established fact, and thra our combined efforts, ‘not forgetting the exclusive tablold department of The Billboard, we are confident of attaining all amount of success, Let us hope we itarted something we can finish, The fight ACTS WANTED Are you securing consrutlve bookings? If not, ‘is write you an Act.