Arizona republican., 1910-01-31

Tucson for an interest in the Tucson
 opera house. He has the Elks theater I in Albuquerque tied up and is figuring
 on Trinidad house. He is negotiat-
 ing for the management. lease or an
 interest in the management of the Fl
 Paso theater and show houses in Bis
 bee, and Douglas. He has the Third Avenue theater in this city leased He
 has affiliated himself with the Con- sidine and Sullivan circuit on the
 coast, the chief vaudeville circuit ex- cept the Orpheum, and Is an old friend
 of John Court who is operating a sim liar circuit from Denver and is the rep
 yeseptative of one of the largest book
 ing agencies in New York. He can do
 business with all these people when he lis in position to hold his own. that
 is when a ompany comes through the
 southwest it must play the Reiss cir
 cult or not play for he will have the string clear from Denver to the coast;
 rather he hopes to be so situated and thinks he has the project far enough | along so he can breathe a little of 1t 1 confidentally.
 His plan is to also secure the Elks theater in this city on some terms
 that will be agreeable. He has neither made nor received proposition yet but has the matter under considera- ton. It is also his plan to build the aters in towns where none are now available if the conditions warrant it; l that is if there Is enough probable patronage to justify it. His plans then will be to run constantly, vaudeville shows fin all these towns, in Phoenix for instance, in the Third Avenue the ater, if it looks promising after his present experiment. and in that event if does he will remodel the building inside to meet his purposes. It will be his idea to- run his vaudeville teams a week in each town, one after an- other, passing them along the entire l circuit after they have played the coast, or vice versa when they are headed the other way for the Consi- dine X Sullivan circuit
 Then he proposes to organize a mu
 sical comedy stock company and play it around the circuit about once every four or six weeks. giving the public a change from vaudeville So much for the towns where there are two theaters. like Phoenix, for instance In
  them will be held sacred to the higher class attractions. such as those that now play -the Elks theater here Should 1t be wise in a one-house town to date a big show it would be easy enough to drsp vaudeville for a night His idea is to furnisb cheap shows all the time and the good ones whenever they can be secured and fix it so they can always be secured when their eyes are turned toward the west.
 This does not mean that he has any notion of quitting the carnival busi- ness. On the contrary this will be the winter home of the carnival company permanently. just as it happens to be this year. He will send it out as usual next spring. though he does not have to go with it all the time any more than railroad president has to su- perintend a switching crew. Another thing he hopes to develop later is to establish a big show factory in Phoenix. That is a place for the planning and construction of all kinds of outdoor riding and amusement de- vices such as are used at carnivals and on holiday occasions, for all the southwestern towns on celebration days of any kind and in the winter have such an establishment for re- modelling his own carnival outfit, do- ing all sorts of work for himself and anybody else who wants it. It is a long way from Phoenix to other places where such an establishment is To- cated.- Somebody has to look after the amusement interests of the south nd ha haS that job and make Phoenix his per manent headquarters.
 All this is naturally suggestive of money and the interviewer was about ready to touch Mir. Reiss for a small accommodation when he explained that he was not rich man and these projects would require lot of money But if not rich. he, is not on the other hand. entirely impecunious. He has a few dollars he can get at>when he sees the right place to put them but better than that he knows number of gen tlemen who have some confidence in his knowledge of the show business. and these gentlemen have more money than he has. If he can show them they stand ready to back him in these enterprises which would of course be through the means of big stock com pany. And if he can secure leases on most of the theaters. or partnerships with those who own them already, he figures that his plans can be worked out for good deal less money than Mir. Rockefeller has, for with a big string of attractions like these hinted at there should be some little return through the box office
 Mir. Reiss said it was not his idea to be a trust or to undertake to fight any trust. He merely wants to organize so he can protect himself. He will have theaters enough to afford his own companies to keep them lighted if necessary, but he will be in a position also to get a square deal from any trust he finds if Uisa nrndenf a do h,Iciraos.s.