The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
100000 FOR JOINT DEBATE.
DeLong Rice Makes Offer to Cook
and Peary.

Cook and Peary in joint discussion
on Who's Who at the North Pole and
Why"
That's the bill that the astute belong
Rice, King of Southern Amusement
Managers and Producers,is proposing to
offer in twenty-five American cities at
the rate of 1872 per head to the thou
sands that want to know.
In order to give the dear people a
chance to acquire information as to ice
foes, bludder and gum drops, Manager
belong has made bona fide offer of
800, 900 to Dir. Cook and Commander
Peary, and further offers to post a for
felt Of $25, 900 to insure good faith.
Some Napoleon. that DeLongl He
has written DR.. Cook telling him that
he wants to give the public what it is
longing for, faceto-face controversy
between the champion polar debaters.
He has written similar letter to Com
mander Peary.
Mr.. Rice's idea is to start the tour
with a big opener in Carnegie Hall, New
York City, and to continue the series
for twenty-five nights in twenty-five
cities to be named by Mr. Rice. The
promoter offers each man $50, 900 and
further offers to pay all expenses, in
GLIDING private cars for the tour, rent
of halls, advertising and everything else.
All that Cook and Peary will have to
do will be to stand up and talk for
twenty-five nights (and neither has
shown himself particularly adverse to
doing monologue act, the only ques-
ton being whether it can be success
fully turned into dialogue).
If Cook and Peary accept each will
receive 50, 600 per. night, and Rice will
take the gate receipts. Mr.. Rice is in
dead hard earnest about this matter He
is willing to back his judgment with the
big forfeit that he has proposed to both
men. The Nashville man figures it out
that he would clean up pile of money
that would beat the Lyceum business
all hollow, and that the affair would
further give him a prestige in the
amusement world that nothing else
could
Manager Rice is one of the best adj
vertisers in the game. When Emma
Eames was here last spring she remark
ed that her engagement here in Nash
vile was the best advertised concert she
had ever given. So we'll pleased was
she and her manager that Mr.. Rice
managed the rest of her Southern tour.
So much in earnest in this matter is
Herr Rice that if he doesn't get the
right kind of replies from the discover
ers, he is going to make trip to New
York to know the reason why. OF
course, this joint discussion is the big
thing, but if he fails Mr.. Rice is not
going to let the North Pole drop so ig-
nominiously-he is going after Cook
for a'monologue skit.
He has practically all of the amuse-
ment rights for such an event as this in
every big city in the South, and his idea
IS to hook Cook for a series of lectures
% be delivered in twenty-five Southern
cities under the Rice management. In
case Cook and Peary decline to meet
or the championship of the North Pole
he will go after DR.. Cook and get him
% extend his lecture tour into the South
Then when Peary takes the stump Mr.
Rice will make an effort to bring him
south.
Nashville is absolutely certain to hear
omething about the polar controversy
ooner or later if belong Rice lives and
Nashville American.