The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-08-20
Will YOU Be There
OPENING night?
COMMERCIAL CLUB COMMITTEE
HAVING TROUBLE DISPOS-
ING OF TICKETS.
SHOULD BACK PROMOTERS
THEATRE A DISTINCT CREDIT
TO CITY-OPENING ATTRAC-
TION HIGH GRADE.

The committee representing the
Sank Centre Commercial Cub have
started the ticket sale for the open
ing of the splendid new Caughren
Theatre in this city Friday evening,
Sept. 4.
The work of the committee is purely
patriotic; they are thoroughly imbued
with the idea that the enterprise and
capital expended in the erection of
this play house that is not equalled in
beauty, finish, comfort and safety in
a city in the state of the size of Sank
Centre, should be encouraged by a
packed house on opening night.
The price of $500 per seat is very
modest as prices go on occasions of
this sort in other cities. The attrac-
ton engaged is the best that money
could buy at this, the beginning of the
dramatic season, and is one that is
bound to please the public.
The Herald is not inclined to scold
but we are surprised at the seeming
indifference in some quarters toward
this important event. The citizens OF
this city are noted for their loyalty to
home enterprises, their progressive
ness and liberality when the best in
terests of the city are at stake. Com
ing down to brass tacks the tickets
are not going as rapidly as they
should. 1t is admitted that this show
can be seen for less money in St. Paul
or Minneapolis. 1t is also admitted
that Manager DeBeau will net snug
sum on the opening night if the house
is filled as it should be at $500 per
head.
1t is also quite certain that if the
business men of this city could have
been guaranteed last spring that the
new Theatre would be as complete and
modern as the Caughren will be, that
more than the total receipts will
amount to on opening night would
have been subscribed as bonus in a
short time.
Mr.. DeBeau, with the assistance OF
Mr.. Caughren, has expended many
thousands of dollars more than was
first intended because of the assur-
-ance of the Commercial Club that the
citizens of Sank Centre would stand
back of them in their efforts.
The Herald still believes that the
people of this city will pack the house
on opening night, but those who have
not yet purchased their tickets can
make the work of the committee much
easier by securing their tickets as
soon as possible. If you do not see
any member of the committee your
wants will be supplied by calling at
the Merchants National Bank.
Next weeks Herald will announce
when the reservations for seats can be
made.
The Play.
In these days of Indifferent musical
plays, detective dramas and plays on
the evils of the white slave traffic,
and stage treatment of such other
twentieth century topics as woman
suffrage, eugenics and the high cost
of living, sweet, wholesome offering
like "In Old Kentucky" which comes
to the Caughren Theatre on Friday
Evening Sept. 4th, breathes the fra
GRANGE of the green slopes of Ken
lucky, and is an agreeable change and
a welcome relief.
The ordinary play is regarded as
highly successful if it has to its credit
two or three prosperous seasons, or,
at the most five or six. "In Old Ken
lucky" was first produced in 1892, and
during all the years since then, it has
never been shelved for single season,
but has gone on season after season,
delighting audiences and packing the
aires tothe doris from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. So far from showing
any signs of decreptitude, it seems to
wax lustier and stronger, as the years
roll by, until it has come to be re-
garded as the most popular drama in
America.
What is the secret of this perennial
What elements have en-
trenched it so firmly in the affections
of the people that they go to see it
again and again and always with the
same pleasure and delight? These