Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-28
MARTIN BECK OF
ORPHEUM CIRCUIT.
Something About the Worlds
Greatest Vaudeville Organizer
Who Visited Here This Week.
HIS SYSTEM OF SPOILERS
Keeps -Four Men and Two Women
Constantly Travelling. with Some
Startling Results.


$40
Martin Beck, general manager Vi '"u
Orphcrm circuit and conceded to De
the worlds greatest vaudeville organ
49,. 49,, ,, .,,,,,,,ta+ a, Tho nnb-
NE
lie eye In SAT- Lake nus week OWING
to his securing control of the local
vaudevflle theotor on state street
Quite number of people in conse-
quence are asking, who Is Martin
Beck?
without doubt he ia tho greatest
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oil the Worlu, ana ~ one OF three men
~-B. f. Keith and Percy Williams be.
Ing tho othcrs-who control the vaude-
vile OF America.
Twenty years ago Martin Beck was
n walter in a beer han in San Fran
cisco. Today he is a millionaire
He Is short, stocky. keen-eyed lit
tie man, Hebrew with a German ao-
cent. Hiss keen eyes and his devo-
ton 70 detail have won for him the
world He has the reputation of being
81 close bargainer and n relentless OPP
ponont who will brook no opposition.
Outside of his talent for securing the
best entertainers of three continents
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IS automobiles. He is reported to have
the latest high-power machines. one he
Keeps IN Paris, another in New York,
several IN Chicago and one in Los An
s,eles. He somewhat surprised those
With whom he was walking on state
street couple of days ago by identi-
Tying the make and horsepower OF
automobiles a block away.
49,
ever ALERT i, dnring MS three hours visit
80 eaIt Iaisa 10 bad not been in the
crri,.n,, 10 rnin,,tes before he nnnde
az .,stn,,,,ding discovery tbat some
,a5,t had henn chInnad off The wood
t,,ori, IN No johh1, and that ono of the
,,sh.,,.s nsae v,eartn,, n soi1ed collar
,rhnsa ~ .eie,nities created n mild
sto,r,
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~ JusI plior ~ g so ~ "a angeiea and
thn,o Set,,or,t,otea 80 the 90 An
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ia tho nrtea ~ 90 es,,,--.ond success >
UNCANNY OMNIPRBSENCE
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i,e ~, S ,tr,,.e.o,,ne II asserts
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s 49, 70 Ps 'r,s't... i,e,,t,tina aro,,nd ,ba
On On 20 "a c,,,ct, Ne is diractiv
$500 ,,,,. ~ ,,,t,a,s, alsn dsiiy
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',it' - e,i,,,,e',,,,t stortiine 10 me
s'.n, -, M ,,s,,n,,s ras,dsnt nav
.s,.'.s
Trhe4o are satd 10 he six Of those in
dt,,ih,tS,s ~ the en,t1oy os Mr. Peek
Eon,. mon and t,vn Women travel from
niaca ~ niace lteening him in init
matc to,,eh win affairs M the various
theaters on tba Circuit
TuRuD pERpr,ryED MANAGERS.
zen laws ago being In his Chicago
ofIlces NJ sent a Telegram 10 the man
ager 81 the Kansas CITY house. II was
9:l5 in tho evening. and his wire read:
Look In YOUR gallery. and you'u find
your gallery doorkeeper asleep" They
iunped in the stairs caught the door
keeper Numbering as peacefully as
Abou zen Adhem. and he woke up lob
less.
Three dnvs ago sitting In Mr.
prownis Stirring. street office. I,os An
reles. he wired 20 Memnhis. Tenn,
.rhis morning Won set a pile OF old
cans ana general rubbish i'm your stage
entrance. Have them removed AT once"
And before he put away his foun-
tain pen he scrubbed this one to Dem
Yer: II is nearly noon, and there Is
SIN q heavy coating of dust on the
window stills of your box office Why"
II is safe wager that there were
three perplexed managers when these
kilograms were received, and not only