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the like Think back to your first acquaintance with
these articles Recall the sudden pleasurable appeal
they made to you Consider in like way producer
rummaging through hundred, thousand dramatic
manuscripts of heroines driven out with their newly
born babes into snowsorms of poor abused girls sud
denly discovered to be inheritors of the Manor, of
horses winning lastact and recoupng heroes for
tunes, and then suddenly coming upon manuscript in
which playwright, with eye open to the things of
the ho:r, tells the story of modernday advertising
the modern-day huge scale and what it and does
accomplish.
AS the producer is reading this manuscript the win
dow at his left flashes before his eyes panorama of adj
vertisng atop neghborng buildings, and the desk be-
fore him parade of advertising in the open newspapers
lying there. Would it not be perfectly reasonable for
the theme of the manuscript he is holding, literally, in
these circumstances, to hit him between the eyes? Put
yourself in the producers place. Wouldn't the novelty
of the idea hold your attention dozen equally
well written equally well worked out themes such
lack of novelties eternal triangles' and estranged
parents reunited by little daughter Clara Forget what
you may be pleased momentarily to intrude here
"art' and Remembering it is the buying and selling
quality of plays talking about just now be honest
with yourself Novelty c. course, isn't everything by
great deal; but it is great deal.
Let give you another illustration (The play
about advertising l bought at once. 1 am dealing
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that Detailing his family, the audience thus
seeing simultaneously the disasters actually Detailing
the family and the theatrical dramatization of those
disasters
Certainly! You would buy the last described play
just as did You see, both of equally human.
The novelty of construction-even forgetting the
parative freshness of the story when listed against the
other three)-woud 4get" us both
WIE to element number two in the play
wrights' plotting 1t is dangerous, from the
purely practical point of producing (Which is the only
point remember that discussing in this article)
be original, too novel, with the intended for
the public The best and probably the safest way is
get combination of something already familiar and
something brand new, apparently The theatrical
producing game like almost any other of business
in this respect The purchasing public is inclined to
chasm via bridge 1t doesn't take a leap and
jump across.
The potter of the story of Get Rich Quick Walng-
ford got through FIRST his familiar crook character,
and secondly the novel injection into that crook char
of fine of the huor of his special profession
and special campaign against the weaknesses in the
armor of human nature. Following @Wallingford,' the
plotter of Seven Keys to Badpates story got by
placing his crooks with their of hunor into the
novel stage framework of a story within story. And
now the potter of @he Miracle Mans story has got
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Drawing by s. D. Otis
A THEATRICAL producer is
n defined by most playwrights

Il dCuLCd ny lllOSt pay WliSiieS
as man who refuses to pro-
duce plays. The same system of
logic would define a grocer as man
who refuses to buy groceries.
The trouble with the manufacture
ers of both definitions is that they
forget that buying something and
selling it are two different things.
That a producer should buy some
thing he doesn't think he will be able
to sell is regarded as perfectly all
right, thoroughly reasonable, and
duly to be expected by the play
wrights who approach him with their
goods. If these playwrights had
canned asparagus to sell, and tried
to sell it to the grocers during the
time when fresh asparagus was thick
on the market, and the grocers de-
clined to buy their canned aspara-
gus-do you begin to get my mean
ing?
Well then, should it not be the
duty of producer to himself, or to
his firm, to consider carefully, to
weigh shrewdly, the potential selling
qualities in a play before he buys it
which is to say, produces it?
Certainly. And shouldn't the theat
rical producer inspect the goods Of
fered him as carefully as any other
kind of merchant? Certainly he
should. Now, every phase of COM
mercial activity has its tricks. The
statesmen must study their particular
line of business, must lay out care
fully devised selling stratagems, and
above all must see to it that they
have something good to sell; that
is, either some attractive novelty or
some old standby brought attrac-
lively up to date.
You recall the story of the man
out of a job who went to his friend to
ask advice what to do with himself?
@Why don't you go in the hat bust
ness?" suggested the friend. @Hat
business nothing!" exclaimed the
man. What chance would l stand
in the hat business? Everybody's
got a hat!'
THERE'S more than a mere pass
= ing joke to that story. 1t is
silly to go into the hat business unless
you have not hats alone, but hats
plus ideas about hats. Business is
the art of convincing people that
they ought to buy something they
already have, but improved uboni
That's the way with the playwright
and the producer. The first thing
thinking about are plays-also the la:
to be plotted against; just like
plotted against by the halter. Of c.
ular run of events and seasons, the
buy two hats year anyway. 1t is
halter to make him feel like buying n
two. The producer has to buy so ma
keep himself from going to sleep doing
to the clever playwriting man to pei
more than merely enough to keep hin
ments in the successful plotting of F
producer l am going to try to indie;
article. And, though obviously l cal
personal experience, l trust that my
GENTLY typical to illustrate the here ar
cases of my brother producers.
l will skip all consideration of tt
that are part and parcel of the usual a
that is, that the play must be well
characterizations must be impressive,
all this as granted-and tiresome. {
well write that the man who has rub
must be more or less sire that the pa
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By GEORGE M. CONAN

Will IoISlStS iiiot<hhASo I'll
ticle. Abstract cases never prove
very much, and can be of small con-
structive help.) Several months ago
had been spending two weeks read
ing, reading, READING, plays that
had been submitted to my produc-
ing partner and myself. We wanted
in. the worst kind of way to get
hold of some new plays to produce, as
we soon had to arrange our prelimi-
nary producing schedule. But in
cessant reading failed to bring to
light anything with the buying punch
from the plotting playwright's
viewpoint) or the selling punch from
ours, the producersD.
Now let me in this crisis tell you
what happened exactly as it did
happen; that is, my experience with
the plotting dramatists in one typical
day. On this day which will serve
for illustration 1 had laid aside four
manuscripts to read with view to
purchase. A preliminary look at
these four tout of twelve) had re-
vealed them to be reasonable from
a surface viewpoint; that is, they
were the work of persons who knew
the general demands of the stage.
shall outline for you very briefly
the nature of these four sample plays
and let you say which of the plays,
had you been a producer in my place,
eagerly looking for play, you would
have been most likely to buy. Con-
slider:
The first of the four plays was
built upon the Sardou model of the
usual "well built play, the form of
playwriting you see nine out of ten
nights in the theater, and told a
story of what we may with sufficient
clarity call the reformed crook"
species.
The second and third were built
upon the same general scaffold, and
told respectively the story of an er-
rant woman who sought to wipe
out memory of her sins by devot-
ing herself to the uplift of the lowlier
tenement classes, and the story of
a luxury-loving wife who, having
plunged her husband into bank
ruptcy, saw the error of her life and
forthwith set out to help him re-
establish himself.
The fourth play told the story of
man who, to get money that he
needed quickly and badly because
of disasters that were Detailing his
family, sat himself down and be-
gan writing play about the dis
his family, the audience thus
usly the disasters actually Detailing
he theatrical dramatization of those
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Duluth, Mimi, June 1S.-Darby
O'Brien's mean little street gamins
jumped all over Papa Unglaub's nice
little boys from the Red River valley
yesterday. They pulled out hair by
handfulls, bloodied their noses, knock
ed them down and then jumped on
them. 1t was a very painful occasion
for the G~raingrowers.
One, Blancke, was the principal Of
fender. He was throwing for the
booklets and he let the G~raingrowers
down with four hits and shut them
out. The score at the end was 5 to 0.
Duluth continued playing champion
ship ball. They put up an errorless
game in the field, ran bases we'll and
hit when hits were most valuable.
Greisell, On the mound for Fargo
Moorhead, pitched a good game, al
lowing but seven hits. Two Of these
came in the third, however, after
Greisell had walked two of the
O'Brien clan, and an error filled the
bases, and three runs came Gathering
over the plate to the accompaniment
of much noise from the Duluth pop
ulace.
In the fourth Hargrove doubled, and
an error by Dye let the Duluth third
baseman across for another counter.
In the sixth Hargrove doubled again
and a hit by Wolfe and a sacrifice,
brought him in once more. This &C
emulation Of runs was merely add
ing insult to injury, however. Blancke
was standing the G~raingrowers' bat
tiers on their heads most Of the
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Sporting News OF the
World While It's News

ball players who are thinking of trans
ferring their allegiance to the new
league.
IT will see to it," he said, that no
player who jumps, no matter how big
a star he is, will ever play in organiz-
ed baseball again."
A statement by James A. Gilmore,
president of the Federal league, that
he could wreck the two big leagues in
thirty days if he signed all the play
ers who had offered to desert organic
ed baseball was responsible for the
Johnson warning.
Federal league teams will not get
a single player from Charles A.
Comiskey's Chicago club" said John
son.. "If Hal Chase jumps his con-
tract, he will never play with the third
league club. All Of Comiskey's players
are around by contracts that have no
ten days clause. Chase was the single
exception, but if he jumps he will
never be permitted to play with the
federals.
I'VE will stop him the same way
Chief Johnson was prevented from
playing with the Kansas City club.
Any player who jumps his contract
to play in the Federal leage will never
be permitted to appear On the rolls Of
an American league team again"
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St. Louis
Dodaers Defeat Reds.

Brooklyn, June 18.-Brooklyn took a
ten inning game from Cincinnati 2
to 1 after a pitchers battle that was
marked by much wrangling. Both
Pfeffer and Douglass were effective,
the former allowing only three hits
and the latter getting eleven strike
outs.
After Dalton walked in the seventh,
Wheat hit to Groh and a double play
was apparently easy. but Umpire
Eason called both unners safe. Her
zog, Clarke and Coacher Mullaney
were ordered off the field and Umpire
Quigley was forced to produce his
watch before the visitors would re-
sumo play. Dalton scored On a passed
bill by Gonzales, who had replaced
Clarke. Cincinnati tied the game in
the eighth on a pass, a hit batter and
O'Mara's error. Brooklyn won in the
tenth when Fischer walked, stole Sec
ond, took third on Pfeffer's scratch
hit, and scored on Berghammer's err
ror. A one-handed catch by Dalton
featured the game. Score:
r. H. e
CINCINNATI / 3 3
JOB q z J.
Observation-Disclosures and, Gonzales,
Clark; Pfeffer and Fisher.
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American Association.
cnIone1a Get to Blues.

Kansas City, No. June 18.-Louis-
Vile defeated Kansas City 8 to 1 in an
eleven inning pitchers battle between
Loudermilk and Gallia. Loudermilk al
lowed only two hits and famed six
teen men, coming within n of equal
ling the American association strike
OUT record. Gallia pitched well until
the eleventh when he weakened and in
a walk a double and single, broke up
the game. Loudermilk hit a home run
in the third inning. The locals tied 1t
up in the sixth when Rath walked,
second, went to third on Sever
eid's low throw and scored when Os-
born threw over Dodge's head. Score:
r. II, u.
Louisville ...s..... zee. :
Observation-Disclosures and SEVERED;
Gallia and Moore.
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HARVARD DEFEATS
YALE TIES SERIES

Cambridge, Mas. June 1S.-Harvard
yesterday retriever its defeat by Yale
at New Haven Tuesday, winning be-
fore a gay commencement crowd, 7 to
8. The series, now tied, will be decided
in a third game to bep layed at Fen
way park Saturday.
Harvard lost the services of it's first
string catcher, Waterman, when he
broke a finger on a foul tip in the sec
ond INNING. Clark's throwing hand
was injured when he was struck by
a pitched ball in the fifth. Score.
r. H. z.
Harvard I 3 8
I ale 5 D 4
Batteries-Mahan, Waterman and
Osborne; Gile, Brown and Hunter.
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Braves Win a Pair.


Boston, June 1S.-Boston took two
games from Chicago, winning this
morning 8 to 8 and this afternoon Z to
3.
Hits for extra bases by Deal and
Schmidt were important factors in the
morning game, played because Of the
observance of Bunker Hill day.
labels wildness. an error by Sweeney
and two singles gave Boston three
runs. in the first inning. Three more
were scored in the third when, after
Connolly had walked and Meanwhile
was safe on Corriden's error, Schmidt
doubled and Deal tripled. label was
driven from the box in this inning
and HUMPHREYS relieved him. With
two on bases in the fifth Deal doubled,
driving in two runs. Chicago could
not bunch hits off Tyler.
The Braves got away to a fve-run
lead in the first inning of the after
noon contest. Pierce, who started to
pitch for the Cubs, was wild, passing
two men and hitting another. Dugey
and Schmidt singled and Mann chack-
ed out a triple with the bases filled
before Smith was called on to relieve
him. James held Chicago safe until
the seventh, when Corriden got a home
run. A pass, a single and Corriden's
double gave Chicago two runs in the
ninth, Score:
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of the Brooklyn National Baseball club
were yesterday fined $25 each for dis.
putting the umpires decisions in Tues.
days game.
Pitcher E. J. Pfeffer of Brooklyn
signed a contract yesterday covering
1915 and 1916. Pitcher Bill Wagner
Of the same club was released to
Toronto Of the International league
and Outfielder George Walsh was sent
to the Toronto, Canadian league club.
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Maps Take Series.

Cleveland, June 18.-The Maps beat
Washington Z to 2 and made a clean
sweep of the four-game series. AL
Collamore pitched well, although he
was in trouble several times. Shaw
was ineffective after the fourth in
ming.
Manager Birmingham Of the Maps
was elected from the field by Umpire
Dineen when he objected to a decision.
Fans in the bleachers threw pop bot
ties at Dineen as he followed Birming-
ham to the subway. Score:
R. H. E.
Cleveland Z II 0
Washington 2 9 l
Batteries: Collamore and O'Neil;
Shaw and AinSmith.
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Browns Beat Boston.

st. Louis, June 18.-St. Louis, with
Hamilton pitching in rare form. turned
the tables on Boston and won the final
game, 4 to 0. In the second inning
Walker singled and scored when Leary
doubled, but Leary was picked off at
second base. Austin singled, stole
second and scored on Wares base
hit. In the sixth inning Pratt tripled
and scored on a passed ball. Williams
drove the ball into the right field
stand for a home I'll counting the To-
calls last tally.
Though johnson was in an elevator
accident today, he pitched a fairly
good game. Score: R. H. E,
Boston .....ss...... v
st. Louis .............. 10 1
Batteries-Johnson and Cady; Ham
ilton and Agnew.
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METROPOLIS AGAIN
WALLOP GARDENERS

For the third time for the season,
the Metropolis defeated the Gardeners
last night in the Y. M. c. A. hotel base
ball league at the Fargo college
grounds. UP to the last two innings
the game was as close and interesting
as any fan could wish. About this time
runs began coming in thick and fast
for the Metropolis and they won to the
tune Of z to 4.
The Annex and Metropole teams are
scheduled to play the next game. This
will take place at the stadium next
Friday night at $3.50.
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Indians Win Ragged Game.

Indianapolis, June 1S.-Indianapolis
won from Buffalo II to 8 in a game
Of the pitching displayed by both
teams. The local club used three box
men and the visitors four. Score:
r H e
Buffalo y l
Ii q
Batteries-Schultz, Moore. Moran,
Houser and Blair: Billiard, Mullin,
Moseley and Rariden.
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ming lineup even though the new man
plays a much better game than the
replaced looks like poor policy. 1t
takes one of the old cogs out Of the
machine. Bob put Schiller back yester-
day. but the beans had been spilled.
d The Graingrowers clambered aboard
What was left Of their prairie schooner
after its disastrous encounter with that
Duluth snag, and limped painfully
the dredging machine Of the ore dig
gers for four games. The team will
be home next Monday for three games
with Grand Forks.
The Flickertails got bumped hard at
Winnipeg, losing three straight. They
now go against the peggers on the
ginning today.
Duluth won it's ninth straight game
yesterday. That bunch of Darby
O'Briens is going to give lots Of trouble
before the season is over. By winning
Forks record for the season.
AS the teams go into action today
every pair Is fighting for the same
position. Winnipeg. n Grand Forks
are still fighting for first place. Far
go-Moorhead and Virginia, are fighting
It out for the, third position. Duluth
Superior for the fifth place and Winona
and, Fort, William will battle at the
Canadian city to see who can avoid the
cellar.
AS a result of yesterdays game Far
go-Moorhead slipped into fourth place
Just n point behind Virginia.
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FEDERAL LEAGUE.
BaItfeds Win.

Kansas City. NO. June 1S.-Balti-
more scored two runs on four singles
and a stolen base in the eighth inning,
defeating Kansas City 2 to l. Quinn
held Kansas City to seven scattered
h&s. Score:
r H. E.
~ =
Kansas City ............... 49, 4
Batteries-Quinn and Jacklttsch;
Harris, Stone and Easterly.
Umpires-McCormick and Goecke.
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Brewers Pound Bali.

Milwaukee, June 18.-Milwauke
pounded the ball all over the lot and
won an easy victory by a score of 10
to 6. schardt who started, was taken
out at the end of the third after the
hits and eseven runs. Hovlik pitched
good ball outside of the fifth, when the
Visitors punched five of their eight hits
for four runs. Bealls hitting featured.
Score:
r. H. e.
Milwaukee Id 3
Indianapolis ......s......s D D 4
Batteries - Hov1ik and Hughes;
Schardt and Livingston.
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GIVING THE DOPE
THE ONCE OVER
wow! Three in a row.

WOW! Three in a row.
And to rub 1t in by the shutout
quite
Twice this year the Graingrowers
have been blanked and Duluth turned
the tricks both times.
The fans have one consolidation
Grand Forks got 1t in the same place.
Duluth has two pitchers who give
promise to burning up the league
Blanche and Cunningham.
That jinx seems to have revived.
Many of the local fans are Of the
opinion that Unglaub brought disaster
on the team when he broke up his
winning combination by taking Schiller
off SECOND and putting the new man
Wertz. there. There Is certain
as well as ABOUT big business depres-
sions. To put a new man into a win
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BAN JOHNSON ISSUES
Def TO FEDERALS

Chicago, June IS. Ban Johnson,
president of the American Baseball
yesterday issued a def to the
Federal league and a warning to base
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in THE REALMS OF SPORT

the worlds champions to one hit and
BANKED the league leaders by S to 0.
Catcher Lapp was the only member of
the worlds champions to hit safely.
An error of judgment by Blackburn
was what cost Faber the honor of a
no-hit game. I4apr grounded toward
second in the ninth inning, and Black
burn, instead Of coming in On the ball,
ran back a few steps and Lapp beat
the throw by a narrow margin. Black
burn fumbled Walsh's grounder, and
Kopf, who ran for Lapp, reached
third, the only visitor to pass second
base.
Chicago won the game by punching
hits off Brown and Bressler, taking
advantage Of the visitors erratic field
ing and a couple of bases on balls off
Brown.
Eddie Collins, although charged with
two errors, played a sensational game
in the field. Blackburn, Faber and
Demmitt contributed fielding Isl
tons for the locals. Score:
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Duluth ......... 0 0 3 I 0 I 0 0 ks
Two base hits-Hargrove, 2. Stolen
bases-Cr6ake, 8; Bracket. Base on
balls-Off Blancke, 3; off Greisell, s.
Left on bases-Duluth, s; Fargo
Moorhead, 8. Hit by pitched balls-By
Blancke, 1; by Greisell, l.. Struckout
BY Blancke, 4 by Greisell, 8, Time
lao. Umpire-Flood.
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American League.
Federal League.
NORTHERN LEAGUE.

Peggers Take Hard Contest.
Winnipeg, June 18.-Winnipeg took
another from Grand Forks, but lac a
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NATIONAL
Pirates Banked Twice.

New York, June 1S.-For the second
day in succession New York shut out
Pittsburgh with five scattered hits, the
Giants winning s to 0. Mathewson,
who was in fine form, pitched for the
champions. The New Yorks punched
hits on McQuillan and ran wild on the
bases.
The locals scored B~run IN the first
inning on Beecher's double, his steal
Of third and Burns single. Two more
counted in the sixth on two passes, a
sacrifice and two singles. Robertson's
hit driving in the runs. Another two
came in the seventh on two passes,
four steals, an error by Gibson and
FIetcher's single. Bescher stole home
in this inning. Score:
r. H. E.
Batteries-McQuillan and Gibson;
Mathewson and Meyers.
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Chances Men Whip Tigers.

Detroit, June 1S.-After losing three
consecutive games to Detroit. New
York, with Manager Chance still I'M
der suspension, whipped the Tigers 4
to 8. 1t, was the first game the High
landers have won from Jennings men
this season. Two runs behind in the
ninth inning, Detroit started a charac-
~teristic rally. Kavanaugh and Burns
singled and McHale vas taken out of
the box, Caldwell replacing him. New
York punched hits in the first and
third innings to make its runs. Score:
r. H. E.
New York s 2
Detroit 3 IL 1
Batteries: Caldwell, McHale and
N~unamaker; Dubuc, Hall, Cavet and
Stanage.