The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-01-04

tt4nSt13 $50 80. =. 80 .Ine seekers |
Dixie -............... .ASister of Six |
3 Nelson. 1900. The Right Hand Path |
Ideal. ........... The Stolen Shadow |
I T does a fellow a whole lot Of good,
wife's opinion to the contrary not.
withdrawing, 10 meet a real show
man. We don't mean a P. T. Barnum,
but fellow who reads THE Dramatic
Mirror. and has glad hand to give
70 ye poore dramatic scribe. We've
been hobnobbing with Dave Heilman
50 long that we began to think he was
the only living thing on the island.
= And as a matter OF fact he was as far
: as the speaking stage is implicated.
But last night we bumped into Aubrey
MtttenthaI, who was taking tickets
at the door for Flora Bella"
IT isn't good form, maybe, to get all
swelled up about Aubrey Just because
he gives a fellow the glad hand, but
know that his nit is darned sight
more comfortable IL you get the Mel.
son hold first. He shakes hands like
'BiiIyg Sunday. Nobody ever shakes
hands with BILLY" Oh! MOI. Billy
does the shaking. Just the same way
with Aubrey. The show he was with
while he was on the door several OF
4 The Hippodrome Players got in AS a
matter Of professional etiquette, or
courtesy, to see the last act. The show
,ssas so blamed good that II wouldn't
have made any difference II you'd seen
only tiny part of any one of the three
acts. You'd have had your moneys
worth whether you paid or not. We
can dispense with the show in a very
lew words, but we can't cut the dope
on Aubrey. The show got hooked up
wrong here on account Of the amateur
advertising mans shortcomings. Au-
brey says the house does the local ad-
yertising; not the show. And when
he said this he seemed a bit peeved.
This Is what he said to me-"Old
Stager personally Where did you
get the idea that this was an elaborated
musical tab show?"
Being summoned to the witness
stand. ! replied with right hand uplift-
ed and the other on my car fare, BE
cause you advertised so in the Choir
u.s. Now" says l, I'VE all here are
strong for 80 in s. but we aren't max
ing any calculations on the same basis
you figure"
Right away Aubrey flared up! He
says you didn't see the first act. And
Aubrey was right. I didn't; he had
me there, all right. So just for spite
hung around long enough TO get
chance TO count 'em, and believe me
I've got them added up on a Bur.
roughs adding machine, and the red
ink says there were 81. That is 81 in
number. In age, some we're, more or
less. Wen there were no red tights
1t wasn't leg show, but the advertis-
Ing got 'em the idea Just the same, be-
cause in the full house there was a
conspicuous absence OF the fair sex.
The show was so immaculate and so
fine that we wondered why there were
so many men there without their
wives, Then We reflected back to
advertisings And aubrey said the
bouse did thesadverising.
Mittenthall certainly is great man.
He came hero with the show and went
away with 1t. For the necessity of re-
cording the tail end of Aubrey's move
ments we feel deeply panied, because
Aubrey Mittenthall is one OF those fell
lows who does things for the people.
Consequently he's happy guy. l
didn't get chance TO ask him. because
all the while we were talking he want
gu uA0 W MhLSh nAONI dhA lhdS oSAb
Of Buffaloed me. But what wanted
to ask him was probably a superfluous
question anyway. know he doesn't
own West Virginia oil stock that gives
him an income of 700 or more week.
know this, because II Aubrey got that
much money every week in the Mon
day morning mail, he would quit the
ahow business. And Aubrey's got a
level head. Some level heads are flat,
Of course things got to be flat to be
level. But Aubrey's is shaped more
like an egg. And my God, who in these
tlmes Of the precious hen food wouldn't
be battered by the comparison?
.Tlora Bella" was "Floradora" for
music. and there were just enough peo-
pie IN the cast and chorus to keep with
| M the prescribed limits OF the big base
ball leagues. Twenty-one by actual
count. We meant to kid" Aubrey
about the fifty, but the fifty" is so
dear TO our heart that we desisted. BuC
let me tell you the company was n
whole lot better than some of the
''twenty.onesn that go South for their
spring training. The house was pack
ed and Aubrey was Happy. So was
the honse management The latter is
always thus. Get EN- in, get 'em out,
got the money" Get that. Well, that's
Goodbye Aubrey.