The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
IGIaud Robinson lust Cannot
See the Easy Coin
Slip by.
HIPPRODOME a BAND BOX

.Stupendous Enterprise That
Would Stagger All Stage
land is c Contemplated.
In a desire to bask in the radiance.
of made-to-order sun OF prosperity
that has focused it's rays on the theat-
rical world and has brought such
enormous sums of money into the cof-
fers or all the men in the theatrical
business during the past two seasons
especially the one now drawing to
a close-local capitalists. who say
that money is SO easy to get at pres
ent that they can't AFFORD to let 1T re-
main idle, are Planning to erect
theater in C1arksburg that will make
the New York hippodrome look like
Square Garden.
Flinging the Money.
Claude Robinson Is the moving
spirit in the new project that will put
Clarksburg on the theatrical map so
prominently that the map makers will
have to take q belt line car every
tine they want to put another city in
This new enterprise has attracted SO
much attention that mum Der Of local
E!en, who were little skeptical at
first. are now throwing their coin at
Mr.. Robinson in an endeayor to get
in on the ground floor of the PROPOSE
ton
Clarksbnrg hasn't enough theaters.
at present, the promoters of this new
theater feel, to wad an old-fashion9d
Ierringer and they are going to build
a house that will make up in size and
ielaborateness for a score or more that
might be started by people who know
what large fortunes can be whale,
UP in the show game.
Fabulous Profits.
The theatrical business has been so
good for the past two seasons that.
William a. Brady. David Belasco, and
several other theatrical magnates.
have grown ashamed Of taking peo-
PIES money, and have gone into the
motion picture business.
Most of the legitimate actors
and actresses have been receiving
such fabulous sums for their WORT
that they have been seized with the
fear that they might become the own
ers OF the steel trust or the Standard
Gil Company. and be prosecuted UNI.
der the Sherman antitrust law.
Therefore, they have gone into the
movies knowing that their income
taxes will not be SO large.
Plan Big Banquet.
The unprecedented success of the
show business has turned the heads
OF local men, and they have been
quick to seize the opportunity to plan
an immense show-house here They
are going to get every loose nickel
that is lying loose in the Fuel City.
rut the motion picture houses and
evangelists out of business and then
go out and celebrate their great tinan-
cial campaign at a banquet that will
cost fabulous sum-that is. if ham
and milk and pumpkin pie gets cheap
er.
Marvellous Curtain.
The specifications for the new thea
ter are Of such magnitude that nearly
a hundred pages of typewriter copy
are used by the contractors, who are
said to be the Thompson Starrett
Company OF New York. There will.
be an imemnse stage that will be a
model of its kind. The prosceniurn
5arch will be at least q 90 feet wide and
4yU feet high in the middle. ne i'm
mense asbestos front curtain will be
a panoramic picture typifying the cell
ebrated jules Verne story, Around
the World In Eighty Days. on which
every city visited by the character in
that great book viii be represented
4 new compound, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
VIII be used in the manufacture OF
the curtain. This will permit the re-
production Of streams of water witt
almost life-like reality Chemists
have been busy for months preparing
this composition for this particular
stheater.
Pictures Whole World.
BY a series or intricate apparatus.
the curtain will be lighted by incan-
descent and arc lamps concealed in It's
folds. BY a system OF illumination
that will cost thousands of dollars to
install and maintain, the audience
will see, in miniature, the entire
world in all the colors typical OF the
various countries of both hemis-
pheres. An invention by Groom
Fnarf, one Of the best known modern
Eillusionists, has made it possible for
the various foliage on the curtain to
be set in motion similar to that Of the
tree or 1owersin actual existence. An
elaborate system Of tanks Will ext
kude delicate perfume s. thus creating
the atmosphere Of veritable garden
OF paradise.
SunlSen Garden.
In the front OF the stage proper Will
be an Immense sunken garden with
Efronded palms and fountains In which
will be used the beautiful tri-colored
water found in Uganda. "A feet OF
standard Oil tank steamers has been
chartered to transport this water One
Of the features of the sunken garden
will be cabaret restaurant. Ranged
iaround the garden will be balconies.
| in which opera singers. in medieval
COSTUME, Will sing the prologue of the
play. As the prologue ends the great