Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-01
'TAX, TAX, NOTHING
BUT TAXES, " PLANT
OF MOVIE MANAGER
Proprietor of the Little
Broadway in Kensington
Closes Theatre and Looks
for a Job.

It's all over now. my business is gone
what little money had saved up after
years of hard work has followed the same
path. SO what's the use of kicking?
Believe me. times were hard enough
without this war tax. The business man
has enough to contend with. am not
talking about the rich business men, who
half the time are not business men at
all-fnanciers think they call themselves,
but l am talking about the business man
who needs every cent he makes
Believe me again when l say he needs
it; not to keep his golf links in repair;
not to count the minutes until the new
years limousine has been put on the
market. and not to get some artist to de-
sign the latest fashions in shirts for his
English butler, but he needs 1t 10 support
his little ones at home and many times
even his parents. who at least have
right to exist on this earth. Exist is
about right, I think.
81 am looking for a Job, That's about
the size of it,"
Crushed at least temporarily, discour-
aged, disheartened and worn out in his
untlrlng efforts to keep his head above
water in the whirlpool OF competition
and hard times. Edward Bachman. pro-
prletor OF the Little Broadway Theatre,
2505 Kensins ston avenue. who could not
pay the $50 emergency war tax yesterday
and therefore closed his theatre, un-
bosomed his troubles today
HAIR TURNED GRAY.
Baehman was noneommittal at frst.
He said talking wouldn't help any and
that he was doing the best he could to
forget at least a small share Of his
troubles.
II don't want, to appear as a gutter"
he said. II don't care SO much for my
self. but you must realize have an aged
mother at home and two sisters to sup
port.
my mother is nearly 70 years old
Ever since 1 was a kid I have worked
Tor a living. My brother Charles. who
ran the theatre with me, has done the
same thing. Ny mother al least has been
able to manage We didn't want muehi
we didn't expect much. and at least We
were happy. But ! tell you this last
venture with the war tax and all has
been a terrible blow.
Il had to pay the war tax and I
simply couldn't do It. Maybe ! haven't
DeEn u8iHB some LhlAhAHB u idtcs Dc
sides the war tax. next month ] would
have had TO pay 500 for a city license,
IS for 8 State license. and when you
ngure up rent and all. / simply ran up
against an impossibility.
MY two sisters at home are about
% years old They have worked Ia the
mills ana even the mills are closed
must look after them. ] Am only too
zIaa to do 50, But then. / an up against
Il The worst Of this blow Is Il falls on
q whole family.
ss0f course. money isn't everything but
Il means a lot when the dear ones AZ
home want food. BY years Of careful
saving my brother ana we're able 20
take over the Little Broadway last spring
II waa an expensive undertaking. hut Il
things could have only broken right.
fhInss would have al gene amookhlys but
what's the use-you know ths result.
LIFE Or A MANAGER.
sDon'f talk to nae about the vivid spot
Hshis aud ths gay lie Of 3 thsatFlesl
manager. Iool= e lhls theatre. Little
Bzoaduay reads good. hut that s about
al have been b TIE same and know
Is ! have sorked hard since aaz 5
zoaaszIeF We have 81 worked hard.
so IS 1ne e1a1d ever aeeese aaf meHa-
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