Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-08
Millie, Queen of the Snake
CharmerS, Asks the Price
of a Railroad Ticket to
Nearest Big City.
Local Option Believed to be the
Root of Slim Receipts-Four-
Hundred-Pound Emma Offers
to Marry the First Man Who
Has Carfare.

The Mt. Holly Fair is open and as far
as those who have invested money in the
sldeshows are concerned it might as well
close and let them get away without
breaking contracts
Local option is said to be the cause of
the frost" A frost in theatrical par
lance, is the lack of gate receipts. The
gates are deserted and the grounds not
overrun. Not overrun to such an extent
bill and spending it.
Mille, the Queen of the Snake Charm
ers, says she never before was in such
circumstances She wanted to know
what the railroad fare was from Mt
Holly to Philadelphia. When told she
looked panied and asked how many milen
it was by the pike.
Little Emma, when she has gone with
out breakfast and dinner, as she has
been doing. still tips the scales at 400
pounds. The tiny bit Of femininity says
she will marry the first man who comes
along and has car fare to Philadelphia
or New York.
The dainty one wants to get out OF
time she will visit the State again will
be when she increases the depth of the
Atlantic by taking dip at the shore.
PROF. LEBLANK DROPS SIX HANDS.
And then there is Professor LeBlank.
When he meets one at the "hot dog"
counter (for that is the worst dissipa-
tion at the fair). he is just p. c. Rogers,
German by descent and temperament,
but not patriotically so, for he has not
time to enlist.
Professor LeBlank took 12 young women
to the fair. He had just completed a
long run at Hammerstein's. in New York.
and knew he had a good show. He had
also exhibited at the Orpheum Theatre
here, and was given the thanks of the
house.
There were 12 young women with Pro-
fessor LeBlank at first. With tears in
his voice and eyes that shone with glls-
tening emotion, Professor LeBlank bade
six of his young and statuesque young
ladies' farewell He told them that with
the money they could get to New York
and starve, or get to Philadelphia and
still have little left for sandwiches and
coffee.
Professor LeBlank Is hanging on. He
is giving a short show with the company
he has left and he is greeting the clerk
of the best hotel of Mt. Holly with
smile each evening.
Sam Richmond, the best little barker"
In the world, as he admits, and he also
is proud of hailing from Newark. N. J.,
has yelled himself hoarse and said today
with a tone of sadness in his voice:
1--WE took in IS, gave 20 shows. That
amt the worst 1 took our only pos-
onous rock python out in my pocket
by mistake and he got away. 1 found
him just in time over where they serve
hot dog sandwiches. If 1 had lost that
rock python from India I would have to
send to Phoenixville or Minersvllle. Pa,
10 get 1t duplicated and those snake
catchers up there ask eXhorbitant prices"
WOMAN AVIATOR NOT WORRYING.
d. w. Allen. the man who grasps q
trolley wire. wraps it around his neck
wearing a smile on his face and rubber
soles on his shoes (but the soles are a
stage secreD, says he never was so badly
shocked as he is at the attendance at
his live wire show. He has ladies who
spit fire, others who are living currents.
Just to get carfare home he is giving
a show on the side at Mount Holly at
night. He is making good. but he is a
business man. He is even exhibiting in a
Mount Holly drug store.
Ruth Law and her aeroplane have no
complaint to make. Miss Ruth never
makes an ascension unless she is paid in
advance. Her sky chauffeur does all the
work anyway. Miss Ruth sits in the
machine, drops confetti and smiles. Miss
Ruth and incidentally her pilot, loop
the loop do other hazardous stunts over
the race track, and then land before the
grandstand or perhaps half a mile away
from the grounds. 1t all depends upon
where the machine wants TO land
Mt Holly is all right but little
parched. to the mind of old fair-goers
who took a chance on 1t. The fair has
good attractions. from its picked two
begged horse TO its half-pickled barkers,
but somehow they didn't pay. The gentle
men with a diamond ring draped about a
neck scarf and the lady who does not
care where her smiles are scattered are
missing, and Mt. Holly says II is all the
better for the fair.
But the road 10 the big towns is dusty
md long winding to the sad eyes of
artists.