Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

| QOllarS week 10 mlnStred managers
 And Jack Haverly is going back into
 the show" business. That's why he
 is in Kansas City It has been ten
 years since he has been actively en-
 gagged as manager. His name has
 been used. Cleveland paid him s250 l a week for three years for the privi-
 lege. Times were closer when Hay erly gave $200 per week for a year
 of sailing as "Haverly's minstreis:.'
 a San Francisco man paid a similar
 amount and today Jsck Haverly has 1 three offers for the use of his famous
 name for the winter But Richard
 is himself again and intends to pose 1 as himself tGlis season.
 They have given good shows, you understand, but perhaps the name 1 has not been guarded as one does his
 own. You know how that is,' quick ! ly continued the maker of George
 Primrose, Billy West, Billy Emerson and the host Of other black faced ar lists, fearing there might be a misin- depreciation. "But I am young yet. I am good for twenty years of active life. I shall not go into simon pure
 minstrelsy. It will be sort of com
 posite production. My idea is to have some minstrelsy some vaudeville some comic opera perhaps like a casino
 review. l intend to stay in Kansas City some months, visiting mean
 while Chicago and New York. I may
 buy out something if it suits me, and
 if not I may organize during the win ter a tent show for the summer and
 go into the theaters next fall. I am
 rusty on the business, and I must brush up."
 When Jack Haverly said he was young he looked young. It was as long ago as in 1860 that J. H. Hav- erly of Toledo, O., invo1untarily en- tered the minstrel business in getting back S1 800 loaned to @ manager, but as he spoke his face glowed and his sandy hair and mustache showed more of their mural color than of
 gray. The fifty odd years that have brought success and failures to him rest lightly on the man who is again in the saddle. The large black hat of yore was there His suit was a
 brown business cut.
 q think this is the year that there is money in the amusement business.
 For ten years 1t has been queer
 But now look at wheat look at every thing. Lead went up to s405 the oth- CT day, higher than for ten years. I It will go higher and will be the mak- | ing of Joplin
 Mir Haverly's judgment in amuse- ment matters is pretty good author ity. From '73 to 'S6 was the heyday of his success. Then he owned four
 teen travelling minstrel companies and eight theaters In New York,
 Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco Now he owns an in teresH in 1,0S0 acres within five miles of Cripple Creek, with half dozen
 gold mines in it. The old time manager is the only
 real Haverly ever in the minstrel business The Colorado man talked enthusiastically of the old days, as
 who would not who had managed and in some instances brought out such a galaxy of monologue artists as
 Press Eldridge, Lew Dockstader, i and George Wilson; such dancers as George Primrose and Billy West; such
 a negro imiHator as Billy Emerson; and such black face artists as Milt
 Barlow, Billy Arlington, Schoolcraft
 and Goes, Ben Cotton, Cal Wagner and Cool Burgess, the Canadian? 1he minstrelsy is different today" saK Haverly, but not responsibility. There is none of the simon pure ar
 ticle. In the old days minstrels strove to depict negro characters.
 They made studies from life. But
 now it's anything to make fun. A
 minstrel will come out and do a Dutch turn or an Irish turn. There are no more of the old negro charac- ters to study, except in the south. Those in the north are too greatly
 changed and becoming too fast like
 white people"
 'They have rung in too much vau-
 deville into minstrelsy," concluded
 Mir tHaverly "But they can't be blamed. The audiences want lit l tile of everything George Primrose
 told me in Denver that they tried to stick to straight, simon pure mlns- 1 trelsy, but had to quit 1t on account
 of the people, and George is mighty i level headed boy"