Arizona republican., 1914-08-19
DICK TELLS JIM
 0F EMP. SHOW
Phoenix Boy Grows Enthu- siastic About New Stun ming Vaudeville Bill. Glad He Accepted Tip of Friend. Will go Again
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. IS, 1914.

Phoenix, AriZ., Aug. IS, l9l4. Dear Jim:
 Say, Bo, I took your tip. and dropped into that Empress place that you told me about, last night, ana believe me, guy, l am sure glad took you.' tip. Open up your flop ncrs end I will endeavOr to elucidate to your full and complete satisfac- ton.
 We'll the minute 1 heard that or Chestra bunch toot 'em up, l Knew was in right. Bo, l got so no"' can tell from the way an orches- tra tunes up, what the show is like. You know that bunch of guys have got rhe bulge on us. They get to see the rehearsal.
 act. Now 1 am handing it to you straight. They mopped up. l eX- pected to see the regular small town stuff, but it wasn't there.
 Of course. it wasn't an Orpheum act. For why? Cause there ain't no Orpheum show shop in the burg. | Bat that finale. Say. Steve, it makes | that old Kansas cyclone stuff look | like a summer breeze. Boy, l tell you it's a whirlwind.
 Then there was a guy that calls l himself Johnstone, and the announce ment in the paper calls him the man with the mandolin Believe me. Steve dore, he has got himself some man. dolins, too. Boy, they come from that Gibson fellow. You know what tEat means. There ain't many of the | Gibson instrument. It's too easy to show them up on that. But this old boy plays himself some mandolin l When he got to that classical stuff, nearly left my seat. You know never was very strong for that classical stuff. but say, guy that old, boy makes you like it. Get me! He makes you like it. 1 thought was going to get disappointed in my participation of a rag tune, but noth- ing doing. That old boy is a wise guy. He knew he better not pass UT that rag He started off with 'Too
 Much Mustard" Say man, when he struck up that old thing, there was only one thing that held me in my seat, and that was the house cop Had to use all my will power to keeI from stepping some tango with him Then before I realized what he was iur to, he started with Chesapeake
 Bay, and he rang in "Malinda's Wedding Day. and all the stuff
 that makes a man glad he's alive When he got ready to stop, every
 body was just praying that he would
 keep on, but he was a stingy olC
 guy at that, and he left the stake
 Boy, it wasn't for lack of encourage 1 ment that he did not come back
 They liked to tore the roof off tn,
 shack. Just about that time tn
 town curfew rang, and I picked my
 self out a good out for I though
 sure some well meaning but unthink . ing individual had turned in the fir alarm. Deliver me from being in tn 1 house when them fire laddies com on with the hose. But the hous quieted down finally and I began t
 breathe easy for a spell.
 Then came the knockout A crow ] 1 of colored folks took up some time
 Bo, they make some of these whit . guys who call themselves comedian look like a dirty deuce in a new decl 1 Action. Get me? Action. Say, tn | speed they use makes that old sixt
 mile an hour Frisco choo- -choo tha l my old friend Irving Berlin wrot
 about, look like an ice wagon. I ain kidding you. That's on the squar,
 They gave me more for my none
 than some shows I see with fou 1 acts on the bill.
 F Somebody sure stuck a pin in tha
 Levey guy up there He's on tn
 job now. Say, if he sends that clas 0 of stuff here right along I am goin 0 to camp. l like the town With
 chow shop here playing stuff lib :. they have got at that Empress plat 2 this week, Phoenix for mine 1 We'll, Jack, I've got to ring tn : off
 Wtite me soon as you can. I
 keep you filled with the dope on tf shows So long. h kuA. ~ EET-~vy DTCK