The Denison review., 1899-06-16
EcoNorly AND COMFORT.
How the Mobiles Dramatic Company Com
bines the Two in their Private Car.

How the Mobiles Dramatic Company Com
bines the Two in their Private Car.
Yesterday we paid a visit to Manager
Mobiles in his pllvate car. We found
the genial manager ready to talk and
willing tc show us all through the little
village on wheels where his company
makes its home. There are seventeen.
people all told in the troupe and how
they find room in single Car for eat
ing and sleeping, fer Office work and
leisure hours is mystery toths unini
tiated. The FIRST thing is the all inn
portant Kitchen. Thee is q cooking
range and on the walls hang dozens of
bright utensils. Each thing has it's
place and it must be kept there, for if
it were not, there would be absolutely
no room for that most important of all
factors, the cook. BY the way, Mana
ger Mobiles employs no one who is not
musician and who has not had some ex-
perience in the dramatic art, so that at
a pinch the cook can leave his pots and
pans and play in the band or take his
hands out of the dishwater and be
heavy stage william or a lithesome lover
of the enthusiastic soubrette. The
dining room is another wonder, the
seats fold up against the walls, hunks
are overhead, the table disappears and
it becomes, dining room, smoking
apartment and bed room in turn. Mr..
Mobiles Office is the next compartment.
1t is like the rest of the car model of
order and cleanliness. Everything is
at hand, Office desk, type writer, letter
file, account books, safe. everything
necessary for business, and the man
who thinks that theatrical managers
life is entirely made up of counting re-
ceipts and giving out mplimentaries
is altogether mistaken. MIR. Noble has
an account of every days business dur
ing his many years of management,
and in a moment referred to his first
visit to Denison in April, 1882. when he
was member of the Kendall Comedy
Co. Mr.. G. F. Cassaday was our hotel
keeper then and the company left its
baggage with him during their summer
vacation and opened their next season
here in August. 1t was at this time
that Geo. Noble, brother of Warren
Noble, made his first appearance on the
stage. The two brothers are now in
partnership, each one operating sepa-
rate troupe, each with private car.
pooling profits or deficits at the end of
each year and seeing each other about
once in two or three years. Indeed it is
one of the most remarkable partner
ships in existence. Mr.. Noble con1-
planned of the terrible run of bad
weather, but stated that the season had
been, Notwithstanding profitable one.
Like so many successful men Mr.,
Noble began his life work while very
young. He was seven years old when
he made his first appearance on the
stage, He has been in nearly every
city in the United States and shows no
signs of firing of his life of travel.
Back of the Office is Mr.. Mobiles Sleep
ing room and then come three private
apartments for the families and ladies
of the company. A general louuging
room completes the arrangements of
the car. Mr.. Mobiles company is the
best repertoire troupe which has been
to Denison for many years, and Mr..
Noble himself is an actor who would
grace the metropolitan stage. He pre-
fers however the solid rewards of man
agement to the glories of the ''star''
On Wednesday aud Thursday nights
the company played to the largest
houses ever seen at a repertoire com.
pany's performance in Denison arc
such was the satisfaction given thai
they are sure of good audiences tonigh
and tomorrow.