The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20

'No wonder the Hanlons are supersu-
dous about thirteen The family orig
nally consisted of six brothers-Iholn-
as. Alfred, and Frederick, now DEAD;
William and Edward at present man
ayers Of 'Superba,' and George, VINO Is
an evangelist The Hanlons appearing
here We're the apprentices Of the orig
inaI Hanlons William Hanlon of the
second generation once fell from
trapeze on a Friday, and was badly in
jured. A year or two later, during the
thirteenth week of the company's sea-
son. on Friday, July 18th, he fell from
q trapeze in Omaha and was killed. He
was 81 years old-thirteen reversed
Thomas Hanlon of the original fam
ily became mentally deranged in Har-
risburg some years ago. A thick-headed
country policeman, supposing that he
was intoxicated, arrested him. Mr.
Hanlon killed himself the next day
Friday, the 18th of the monthly turn
ing somersauIts in his cell. His daugh-
ter. Miss Toma HanlOn, is singing in
New York.
These Hanlons, by the way, in adj
dition to having a we'll grounded su-
perstNion about the number ID, are
also opposed to the color of green.
They never wear it, nor does 1t APP
pear in any of their printing. This IS
due to their feeling about an accident
that occurred when one of the noteo
Forbee troupe of acrobatS, attlred
throughout in green, dropped dead on
the stage many years ago. Every com
pany with which l have been connected
- where brown ink has been used IN the
printing has met with reverses, says
q well-known manager
New York Tribune: If there IS any
one man who believes more than an
other in advertising it is the theatrical
manager And he ought to know, Tor
he has much experience in bringing MS
wares to the notice Of the public as
ANYBODY who treads the face or the
green earth. Long ago the various
lodges by which the manager might
focus the public eye upon his attrac-
lions seemed to have been utterly eX-
hausted. for the brightest brains and
the shrewdest minds have long re
ceived good salaries for this distinct
purpose. But within the old fields
there is still much competition, and 1t
is likely that such there will be SO
long as the theaters are open and peo-
pie go to those of which they hear the
most.
OF course, the newspaper holds hrst
place in the esteem of the manager,
but no one manager can hope TO gain
any great advantage over any other
in this field Of enlightening the public,
since no one manager can well buy
whole paper. The wiles of the myriad
minded press agent are still held in
high esteem, and the one who can in
vent the most interesting and plausible
yarns about the plays he is engaged to
boom is sure of the biggest salary
and that is pretty big. The stories need
not be so extremely plausible, either, so
long as the papers can be persuaded to
print them.
Perhaps in no department of theatre
cal advertising does the competition
continue so keenly as in that of litho-
graph display 1t is regarded as of
the utmost Importance that the names
of plays about to be produced or at the
present time on the boards shall be
printed in every conspicuous place in
the city in letters as large as possible.
Any place from an ash barrel to a dead
wall has it's value to the manager, and
he is willing to pay for it and pay
well. And pay well he has to nova
days. There was a time when the man
ager had no one but his brother man
ager to contend with in his efforts to
adorn the architecture of the city with
scenes from THE Road to Ruin" or
Fourteen Blocks and Half from the
Battery" Those days are practically
gone now, and gone forever. The
manager has to deal with a middleman.
AS soon as it became known that
dead walls and roofs in the city had
value apart from that estimated by the
tax assessors, there sprang up a body
of men who made it their business to
corner all such desirable spots as soon
as possible and hold them for a rise in
the market. To-day there are scores of
men whose sole occupation is to secure
the advertising rights to all the dead
walls and saloon corners in the city
These they lease to the managers for
the display of their Autographs at so
much a month. Some of these billpost-
ers have grown wealthy in the business
Detroit Free Press: There was a lit
tie episode last winter that has only
thus far been given private circulation.
There is a very estimable resident of
Piety Hill whose boast had been that
he had never entered a playhouse of
any kind He was pround of this alb
stinence, and his prejudice against the
theater grew with years.
He has a son who does not inherit
this objection to the stage, yet upon
whom the injunction to keep away
from it was laid almost every day But
the command was secretly disobeyed,
,serIa+ -, .
the old gentleman that the boy was
at the theater. Requisition was
promptly made upon all members of
the family at home to help the head of
it into his great coat, overshoes, hat
and eartips. When he started the click
of his cane on the flagstones could be
heard for blocks and told OF a disturb
ed state of mind. AS soon as the car
reached the theater he invested in a
ticket and entered. There was a silence
and a concentrated interest so i'm
pressive that he tiptoed TO the nearest
seat to look for the boy, instead of
calling out his name or rushing around
IN search of him.
The villain was in the ascendant as
the father took his first look at the
stage. He forgot his prejudice in his
sympathy for the heroine. AS the ac-
tors ran the gamut Of human feeling
he wiped his eyes, laughed uproarious-
~, pounded the floor with his cane.
shouted, Hear hear as he did at
temperance meetings, and when every
other sensation gave way to one of re-
Jolclng in the triumnh of right the old