The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-09

Considine. but his activities do not
cease there. He is also strategist-
" in-chief. commander OF the forces
in the field and ranking marching
officer. which is all another way of say
ing that Mr. Considine is the active head
of the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville
circuit.
There is no denying the fact that some
of Mr.. Considne's hair is gray. white
perhaps, but a ruddy face and a pair Of
rowing eyes would seem TO contradict the
age evidence of the hair. Utterly apart
from this however. ii Is entirely impos
sible that Mr.. Considine should be old or
ever get old, lie is not In any one spot
long enough for Father Time TO keep tab
on him.
Mr.. Consldine asoribes his success in
part to his ability to eat fast and escape
indigestion, His life is laid out on an
ayers are SLEEPING Mr. Considine is buy
ing theaters. While others are lunching
he is signing up few dozen assorted
stars: business comes naturally TO Mr..
Considlne. He can buy dozen theaters,
book as mauy acts. and arrange all the
details OF his enormous circuit IN the
time another man would spend In dictat-
Ing letter.
After Mr. Considine has done every
thing lie has to do he goes out and does
some more.
To interview Mr. Consldine one should
be sprinter and shorthand phenom-
"The west?" said Mr.. considine. in
answer to question. No, don't think
1t is any different from the east. II used
to be. oh. yes, indeed. AT one time the
west was place where things not good
| enough for the east could go and get
away, with It, but not any more, It Is
| possible that the Sullivan & Considine
circuit has helped TO educate them"
In regard to what the changes in
vaudeville had been. Mr.. Considlne men
toned the short dramatic sketch as a
| requires variety" he said; ga nice ad-
justment OF various sorts OF acts"
How many iheaters are in your cir
II don't know on the spot said he.
Il haven't counted them this morning.
but do know that we have more than
any other circuit in the world.
Now: I've just Ave minutes to make
my train. good-by," and the vaudeville
| meteor was on his way
It was only by this policy of constant
| work and constant travel that Mr.. Con-
| sidine built up his great circuit 1t is ten
years old and 1t started with but one the =
ater, the Orpheum: in Seattle. Mr.. Con-
sldine was soon longing for other worlds
| to conquer. and being the sort or a man
who usually gets what he wants. he did
| conquer.
10 be invaded, theaters being purchased
or leased in Portland. Vancouver and
| Tacoma. Shortly afterward California
was included In the circuit by an affilia-
| ton with interests already I'm existence
| in that state.
At present thirty-sx theaters are
/ leased by the circuit, while bookings are
made for ffty-siX.
Senator Timothy D Sullivan is the
Sullivan of the firm name and acts as 81
silent partner In the concern. leaving the
management OF the circuit TO Mr.. Con-
| sidlnc.
Acts booked on the Sullivan 6 Con-
! sidine circuit open In Cincinnati and
close in East ST. Louis. Ill In their
sweep about the circuit they cover about
$500 miles. There are no split weeks
on the circuit. Each engagement is OF
one week. except in San Francisco
where two weeks arc played. Another
week Is played in Oakland, directly
across the bay. All tho bills are ar
| ranged directly from the New York Of
| flee. as Is all the press matter.
| The other men who have helped &c
| hold up Mr.. Considine's hands in his
| great venture arc Chris o. Brown. gen.
| eral booking manager. who from the
| New York office arrdnges all the book
lngs for the circuit. Fred Lincoln. the
| general business manager. who has his
office in Seattle: III. c, Robertson, gen
| cral business manager OF the middle
| west. and Paul Goudron. the distributing
! representative OF Chicago.
John w. Considine IS in every city
Of the circuit at least once in year
and many Of them he visits four or five
| times, lie Is never at his Seattle home
for more than SIX weeks at u time Every