The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-07
BUSY PRESS AGENTS.

"OA wraps MIC 10 tIle IdlIl-IfltklIlR
for the pair of big piers down there.
You see. there's an Italian band on
each of these piers-both of which
bands have something to do with Ital-
IAN royalty, to judge from their
names-and of course these TWO bands
are deadly rivals. anyhow. the press
agents of the piers and of the bands
on the piers are deadly rivals. Both
bands are corking good ones. at that.
but the quality of music furnished by
the bands isn't the thing that gets the
money. The money thing is embodied
wholly in the personalities of the lead
erS.
They are hairy leaders. all right.
Creatore is a b%ullet-head with close
cropped hair compared to the one work.
ing on the Atlantic City pier With the
inky mop. and the other leader has a
name of reddish hirsute that would
make Mrs. Carter in her widest emo
tional moments feel as if she had never
succeeded in growing amy.
The one with the midnight mop is
mighty cute and fetching. too, with big
brown eyes the size and shape of horse
chostnuts nd d way of running his
long tapering fingers through his CHM
merriam treSSeS that's all the coin, first,
place and show, across the board. He's
slender and willowy, too, and with the
loveliest natural pallor o ever saw
or heard tell of. and the Ouida-reading
girls have got it all framed up that
there's some deep and dark secret at
tached TO that pallor.
The other leader-the one with the
bronZey mane-is more robust and
squatty and masculine, but he. too.
when it comes to the slow stuff with
the wood wind, has got a way of rails
ing his lamps toward the zenith that
causes the skirted young persons in
FRONT 10 Vrn11fln,s via, Lt,,1 90 =, r0l;,~
woma it could have been to make him
just all soul, so to speak.
We'll, a few months ago-toward the
close OF n all season at the beach. 1
believe-the press agent of the pier
Whereon the Young ma with the Sly
g1an-dark locks performs doped it
out that something I'D hav4 to be done
to cut under that other band. Sc he
promptly engaged the ban leader with
lhe b!ue-hlack mop to a young mil
~llon-heiress somewhere up in Pennsyl-
Nania-daughter of q steel and coke
king. YOU know, whose four millions. or
some such triie, is going 10 belong to
her solely and i'm her own right, and
who, consequently. had the privilege TO
engage herself to anybody that she
wanted to. Press agent did all the en-
gasing himself Natural-born match
makers. some of these press agents,
anyhow. and he made the story a rip
per. ald that the girl was listening to
me oand n evening. when she sue
hankered 10 hear 'Niolets.' So
she scrubbed Il little note preferring
this request, and sent it to the leader
a messenger. He got by with the
'Niolets' tune i'm glorious shape. the
erect or which was so enhancing upon
the Young million-heiress tina she
got I'M properly creden-
tailed person to bring about a meeting
e'ween her and the moppy-locked con-
uctor-and of course, they We're en-
gagged almost While you wait when the
-hlng had gone as far as that. OF
curse, her parents developed a dispo-
'ltlon to insist upon their daughters
'hopping out this matrimonial venture,
'n the ground that the moppy conduc-
or was an unknown and all that, but
nat he was really the Due de Can't
'ciatchmyearini. or something like
hat. and the owner of w or three
'alnese palaces-somewhat mortgaged
extensive vine-growing estates
somewhere at the base of the Apen-
lines why. it was all right, and the
is going TO come off lust as
;oon as the young leader gets through
WITH his engagement on the pier.
After this one had been sprung, the
,ress agent of the other pier. Wherein
leader With the Titan name ca
'orts. felt that his reputation was at
The observation-disclosures
mad beer used. of course. and so
le went that story one better. An !
in a detailed story in the At
intic City and Philadelphia paper
the leader with the sunny name
already married to a Russian
Princess. who had been compelled by
great white ear to renounce her
'rlllcess rank for marrying a COM
|lnnQ1 A II al. how ~, n S,~S- ~- 1
'eep her mind diverted. the ex-princess
lad got herself mixed up with a bunch
st. Petersburg nihilists. and. upon
'eing found Out at that. the car had
banished her to a far
orner of the most miserable end of
liberia. where she had beer languish-
ng for five years. The story vent on
o hint darklv that the red-maned lead.
+ was only running a band long enough
0 get money to buy a cast-off man-o'-
'ar. so that he could fit out an ex-
edition and go to the relief of his
bride. Pretty glowy stuff. eh?
gut the story actually got by. and from
ne tline that he got ii into circulation
ne girls went to that pier in droves to
a long peek at the man with the
'rincess bride. and to wonder how he
ell while conducting the weepy strains
Sltn ms regal wife working in a quick
ilNen mine. or some disagreeable old
h1ng. up near the rim of the Arctic
'cean.
THE red-maned leader had lust got
through conducting the Carmen over
ure evening when was down
here. when Il dark-eyed beauty. who
a rocking chair well up toward
he front had been listening enraptured
o the gurgly strains, got up from her
eat, pulled a large American Beautv
ose from her corslge. and tossed if at
leader. The leader picked it nm
With y fine air of surprise, smelt If,
throbbingly into its deem hear
nd then stuck it into his buttonhole
making the audience a sweepy bow
he enthusiastic young beauty Win
n air of embarrassment over her nm
enthusiasm. quickly rushed
ut, her cheeks aflame-the press agent
said thai they We're aname
disappeared in the mad, ,
ing boardwalk throng. That same
ak. saw the dark-eyed beauty do
lg her little trapeze stunt WITH the
audeVille show. The press agent had
xed up the rose-tossing thing mishtw +.
ell. and it had Deer gone hrnneh
nth perfectly. Moreover. no many ~
he people who saw it had any iden
nat ii had been pulled off by the girl I