Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-08
Plans Putting Bsbee in Ne,u 18 City Musical Comedy Circuit

Bisbee is going to have--mayb bel a theater for the presentation of tabloid musical comedy that will be real musical comedy.
 Louis B. Jacobs, who for many months has been touring Arizona with his company and is now playing the Savoy theater in Phoenix, is be- hind the project He was here for a brief talk with Lockie & Detloff of the Orpheum yesterday, and left last night for Denver and points north.
 The plan of MT. Jacobs is to or eanize companies in Phoenix, Bisbee. El Paso. Albuquernne. Trinidad, Col orndc Springs. Denver. Kansas City. Chicago, St. Louis. Oklahoma City, Dallas. Fort Worth, Waco. Austin, Houston, Galveston and San Antonio, h1d then alternate the companies, moving them month by month after the manner of the variety wheel in the east A company will start at Phoenix, then move to Bisliee, El Paso. then Albuquerque and so on in the order named above, the company that originally started at eact of the other towns moving forward to the next city. etc. every six weeks. This would enable one company to pre- sent eight to 12 shows in town. two a week. and then move on with the tame shows which the company that had been producing the same number of different shows in another town s.. taly a fl1nfa
 In this manner rehearsals would be reduced to the smallest number and each company would be well up in its particular bills In this it would have c biz advantage over the average mu- sical comedy company in stock. which has to keep on rehearsing new bills all the time and must necessarily not be as well up in it swork as a com pany sticking to the same produc- tions.
 It would require several hundred bills to furnish all the companies with something different. also several hundred full sets of costumes, in or der that neither show would have the same plays nor costumes, but tnls would be possible. Mir Jacobs says as he has already collected the plays and the costumes while workips out his first company in Arizona during the past year.
 sI believe that such a combination of good shows would be a success he declared "I would gather together band of good people, equal to the hest in the big shows, and. by giving two shows nightly, in tabloid iorm' I could make 1t success. or course realize that the circuit would not stand for anything punk. It would have to be good stufi but l feel that can give the very best in talent scenery, and costumes at popular prices. By giving two shows nightly could employ talent equal to the best. yet charge popular prices as would have two chances at the peo- ple"s money in an evening. while the biz travelling companies got but one
 "The Pantages and Sullivan X Con sidine vaudeville circuits are paying and they give good performances They nay because of the number oi performance given in a day, for their prices are all very low. l can get to gether a musical comedy company for about the same price as one ol these vaudeville bills. My company has been a success in Arizona anc this has led me to believe that can establish this circuit and make sue cess of it, I am now on my way U visit the various towns and see abou making arrangements for the houses
 If I can get the houses l can ge the companies together. and airead have the bills and the costumes. rh' railroad fare for the entire circuit Il reasonable enough--s65 for the roun' trip-And as company would re attire nearly two years to travel owe the whole circuit. this cost woal not be heavy. believe it is entirel fsasible and think it will be in oper' ton some time this summer"