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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

Monarch, Ainsley Brothers. Hughes
and West and John Barker, the famous
bone soloist
The continuous bill idea did not take
at first, but Mr.. Keith believed in il.
lie soon got more commodious quar-
tiers for his offerings and set about to
improve the quality of the bills. He
tranched out, bought other theaters.
He took the idea to New York and
gradually he built up a big circuit and
absorbed other circuits.
Necessity, one of our best little In
vcntors, we are told, involved the pres
ent-day systematic booking Office.
To-day the Keith booking Offices are
Eerhaps the biggest in the world. Thew
occupy twelve-story building. the
first three floors housing one of the
flnest theaters in the land-the Palace
1t is through these and similar
Offices that 1000 theaters are kept sup
piled with tills-the Keith Office alone
books 400. And it is in these Offices
that bills are balanced and acts are
kept moving in direct and short jump
routes, sometimes kept working for
two or three years without missing q
week
The booking Office is a vast board of
trade of vaudeville. 1t solves the want
of both the actor and the theater man
ager. 1t provides the actor his work
and the theater manager his attraction.
1t is a clearing house. Here are 400
theaters to be booked-and here are
1000 acts to be kept busy. Most actors
and acts are represented by agents. 1t
Is the business of these agents 70 keen
the acts they represent busy always.
with a playing engagement for each
week, and with these successive engage.
ments not so far apart that connec-
lions cannot be made from week to
week, or so that the profits are rot
gobbled up by long trips
The "bookers" of the hooking oAs.a
look to that, too. Every Jump" has
been figured out in mileage and money.
The figures are available. They routa
inc acts so that engagements fit per-
fectly with each other.
Vaudeville Exchange the
Master Key to Puzzle
Inc booker must know that Hand
spring and Somersault al. an acrobat;c
turn, that they are suited only for
opening or closing bill. They cannot
DOCK them into house with four or
hve other acrobatic acts. They mpst
Know, too, that Lizette Mccain has an
act that is as fat as a waffle when IL
follows THE Bad Mans Dream" a
heavy skit.
The Keith Vaudeville Exchange, in
the Palace Theater Building in New
York, is system to nth degree. 1t is
clockwork. A time clock stamp is used
to date TO the minute the booking of
certain acts. so that theater which
agreed to take an act a minute after
another has signed it will have ~
claim on it.
Not all vaudeville acts are booked
for long periods in advance. The head
liners are the fortunate ones. They
are given a certain number OF weeks
by bic booking Office and these weeks
are ''penciled in" on a direct routing
OF theaters, so that some know the adj
Continued on page threei j,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

Inn lof the sum OF o,OUU pounds.
Who viii Save the
Hero and Foil the Villain?
He is taken prisoner. From this
posnt the story develops into a series
ol tortures devised by his captors,
oading to a startling denouement at
the end of the second act, when the
supposed body of the hero Greatly a
bust of Julius Caesar, a kitbag and a
cloak is discovered dangling at the
end Of rope by group of his baffled
business rivals. His identity has been
discovered by the former sweetheart of
barraclough, who aids him to escape
Meanwhile the real radium man has
escaped from his captors (here fol-
lows thrilling chase over country
road, IN which the audience gets real
whlffs of gasoline from a motorcycle
and several touring cars), and the play
ends happily with the double betrothal
OF the two pairs of lovers.
George Tully did excellent work in
the dual role of Barraclough and Altar.
I. V. Frances portrayal of the Ger
man, Hugo van Diest, contained some
admirable transformations. In COM
mentlng on his acting The Daily Tele-
graph says: at was a mastery bit of
work, cleverly varied by alternate
touches of sardonic humor and inhu-
man cruelty. Out to Win was greeted
with the greatest enthusiasm.
AT the fall of the curtain there
were repeated calls for George Tully.
and later for the authors, and Robert
eourtneidge, who in due course made
'heir appearance in front of the foot
nights" James Carew and Eric Ma
turin rubbed in their various cruelties
with skill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Esprit of 70" Recovered

Two reels out Of the thirteen which
make up "Ihe Spirit of '76" we're
stolen, and, although they have been
recovered, there was not sufficient time
to arrange the musical score so that
the picture might open on July ID, as
had been announced. The missing reels
were Paul Revere's Ride and the Battle
of Lexington. A newly arranged score
is being planned for the opening, the
date of which will be announced this
week
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
No Stars. No High
Salaries, but Perfect Casts

In April, 1919. a group of profess
sional workers in the theater, actors,
playwrights, producers and artists,
incorporated under the name of the
Theater Guild, and proposed to found
an art theater in New York, run it
professionally, without endowment,
put on plays of real value for their
own sake, not for private profit, and
compete with Broadway This was not
the first time an art theater had been
started in New York, but it was the
first time no wealthy benefactcr
lowered by, with plenty of capital on
which to make mistakes.
Not the least Of the guilds daring
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
ssSchool DAYS" ON the Screen

Warner brothers, who produced
James Gerard's story "My Four Years
in Germany" few seasons ago, have
announced that they will produce on
the screen Gus Edwards's version of
School Days." his best known vaude-
vile sketch. Mr.. Edwards will also
stage special "School Days" act to
be used rs prologue to the picture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
New London Thriller
Out to VIM" With an America
Gunrnan, Continues the Vogue of
Sensational Melodrama
LONDON, July I.

LONDON, July T..
he of the sensational nodrama pistol
hg tc fortunes and motorcycle unabated
S London where the production Of
Bulldog Drummond breed has with decided
to M by Roland Pertwee Cahrop audience
gpng at its initial
naon OF the thrilling
LAY with the story OF cuthroa struggle
Anthony Barraclough the sole
mysterious field of radum lying the
aon is ANXIOUS to obtain the right exploit his property
lal promoters headed by most
date metnods OF psychanac terrorism an
american gnnan plan to dnap the capitalist Fortunately
penness adventuer Brcoug
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

Iry-Out" Day at
Keith's Palace Theater
Another scout" once missed a train
in Dayton, Ohio. The scout chose a
minstrel show, rather than an evening
in hotel lobby. And he persuaded
blackface comedian to leave S18 week
and "cakes" for vaudeville. 1t was
Frank Tinney.
A newsgirl used to give limitations on
q street corner on the lower East Side
in New York. Some one saw her and
vaudeville got Fannie Brice.
And there are hundreds of such incl
dents. And for all of these acts that
are discovered" there are perhaps as
many who discover" themselves. Every
Wednesday morning at B. f. Keith's
Palace Theater, New York, there is
"try-out." Actors who think lGF5 are
good (and, let it be said without malice.
most of them do) have a chance to prove
it. Some of these acts literally force
their way into stardom in this way.
Somehow vaudeville gives one the i'm
preston of lack of organization. Here
are seven acts or nine, none related to
the other, combining to produce a pro-
gram. A week ends-the acts scatter.
The bill disintegrates And vet the fol-
lowing week each of these acts is a part
of another bill, as completely balanced.
But vaudeville has become perhaps the
greatest, most intricate and best organ
lied branch of theatrical industry.
Vaudeville is distinctly American
from its origin, through its evolution
to its present stage, where it now en-
braces more than a thousand theaters
and about fifteen thousand actors and
actresses. 1t is as different from the
variety" of other lands as those lands
themselves are different from this.
England has its vaudeville-the music
hall variety. France has an entirely
different type. America stands alone
in the perfection of its development.
Originally vaudeville, or what has
evolved into vaudeville, was so low
type Of entertainment that it was
frowned upon, not alone by church
felix. but by all the discriminating 1t
consisted of museum entertainments.
beer garden bills and the like.
First Vaudeville
Bill Given in America
Along came a man named BENJAMIN
Franklin Keith, who, though he is now
dead, made his name one that will live
II the theatrical industry. B. F. Keith
ran away from home in his early youth
he found odd jobs in the museums Of
his day and finally bought a. museum
OF his own in Boston and exhibited
such acts as Baby Alice, a baby that
was born weighing only few ounces.
In seeking to improve the museum,
Keith hit upon the idea of having an
appointed time for each act to appear
a regulation program. And lie launched
the plan. That was along in the early
Sos The museum price had been 10
cents, but Keith put in chairs and
charged cents extra for them.
And SO what seems to have been the
hrst vaudeville bill in America was
given and it consisted of the Duryille
Family, with a child prodigy; the
olympian Quintet, negroes; the Arctic
Moon, with a lecture by Mr.. Hodgdon;
Marion Fisk. vocalist; Murray and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

Times Square, "Dulcey" at the Frazee,
Back Pay at the Eltinge, and "The
Merry Widow" at the Knickerbocker.
A present only sixteen attractions
are on the summer boards. Eight are
musical shows In the other group are
.hree dramas and five comedies.
Quietly, one by one, with no blare
of music, no trumpet's fanfare, the
clans are gathering. Though the sun
beats hot upon an empty Broadway and
the city seems deserted by the stars
that light its winter season, many a
luminary is present behind closed
doors and in darliened halls and thea.
ters where rehearsals are going for
ward for the early productions or the
first readings being given for the shows
that come in after the Official opening
date. Mrs. Leslie Carter has arrived
Continued on page six3 ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

EATER
comedians, funny sad.
1t Kaleidoscope parade, and
falling by the waysde But
ne vaudeville stage! How they found How they developed?
Not vaudeville hos
SCOUTS with duties the those bsebahappened into little
o" AT the old red crossroads chohouse was to be
entertainment. And he went 800 ~ ~
Ihere was the had crinned
partner man In whecha But despite seem to be
rod
mousse His huor of the sort that singing was c
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

AN Anglicized French farce, "The
cinema Lady" containing a number of
original and amusing variations of n
familiar theme, caused a good deal of
laughter at the Royalty Theater, where
was presented recently. The auth
0's' Nancy and Jean Rioux, have taken
as tneIr central idea the desire of the
Aeio TO carry on two affairs at once,
uhe OF them with fiery Corsican and
'ne other with Francine, the wife of
.'''cltor, whom he meets at the cinema.
:" most diverting complication is the
result the farce reaching it's climax in
we confession of the hero's bosom Sc
s.e's through speaking tube which is
discovered to be the ear trumpet of
'ahcine's husband. w. Cronin Wilson
pays the part of CASTOR, the hero.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
salaries of Stars
Ire First To Be Cut

mat salaries of highly paid theatre
- stars will be the first to feel the
saset OF Wholesale wage cuts made
'sseesssry by the present theater slump
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
The Russian Ballet
kevives "Petrouchka"

AT the Princess Theater recently the
russian Ballet gave for the first time
1hls season the favorite "Petrouchka."
Inc revival of this piece, which from
the point of view of the ballet and it's
composer is one of the best things
'aat has been achieved. was received
with the greatest interest. M. Stra-
whisky was compelled to take three
curtain calls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
The 33Two-a-Day'
System and Organic alton Control in the
World of Vaudeville-How
1t Is Done

N fERE do all the vaudeville
w than five thousand vaudeville
k oursacrobats scenery eaters
comedians, funny and
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Continued on page three,
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Continued on page six,
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
attend the opening Of milne

attend the opening Of millinery
goods at the wholesale houses.
Miss Zelma Busch, who has been
assisting in the SilveIton backery
since her father sold the establish
ment, has returned to her home
in Salem. She has resumed her
studies in the high school in
Salem.
Andrew Lonbaken is said to be
very i'll at his home on the west
hill. Heart trouble is the cause,
and his condition IS said to be
critical.
N. N. Johnson, a civil war veter-
am suffered a fain!ing spell a few
days ago, and when he fell over
sustained severe cut in the tace
from his glasses. He is said to
be recovering nicely.
Gaylord Davis has been in Pert
land for few weeks attending TO
his brother, LLOYD, who has been
quite i'll. He retlrnai the latter
part of the week leaving his borth-
er much improved.
Mrs. j. L. Robinson and daugh
ter, Mrs. McCaskill, have been
visiting relatives in Oregon City.
c. c. Christensen and A. Olsen
of Astoria have been visiting at
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15

the Nels Tokstad Brothers were
transacting business in Salem dur
ing the week end.
E. L. Smith, pioneer agent for
the S. P. Co. in this city, and his
wife, have returned from an ex-
tended visit to their daughter and
son at California. Mr.. Smith
thinks California is the place for
old people in the winter, but the
Willamette valley is just right in
the summer months.
Judge NJ. J. Van Valkenburg was
in Portland on legal business last
week.
Rev. Geo. Henriksen has traded
his prune ranch in the Silverton
hills for a tract of land nearer
town to c. C. Person. The latter
moved upon his new place a few
days ago.
H. Good the Silverton nursery
man, is making preparations to
open his tree yard on Oak street.
Jonas Kloppefenstein, a member
of the Portland police force, has
been visiting relatives near Silver
ton. He returned to Portland
the last of the week
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
Assessor Tells
Why Polk Taxes
Show Increase

Dallas. Or, Feb. 15.-Since the
sheriff has mailed out many of tht
dax notices the people have beer
Mnaktng many calls upon the as
Gesser to ascertain why their taxes
nGe SO materially increased which
mas caused the assessor to prepare
aaae following notice explaining the
increase:
The total taxable valuation for
Polk county for 1919 was $13,21S,-
Sa5 and in 1920--$13,302,7670 or
an increase on each Individual tax
payer of $14.07, by taking the gen
eraa levy for 1919 of 21.3 mills
wOA1d- increase the tax of each tax
Hsnyer less than 80 cents.
The state and county levy for
1@Aa was 16 mills, and for 1920,
&a-A mills. an increase of 81 Nails
0r $50 on every $1,000 valuation
MEzss increase was caused by the
wo4e Of the people on the measures
nm the primary election in May of
AiAsa year. At that time the voters
"a Oregon by their affirmative vote
XDr appropriations to o. A. c., u. of
- Oregon normal, public schools,
Ssnauiers. sailors and marines, and
kstaae market roads levied an addi-
Sion tax of $6,098,258.66 upon them
fsselvHs. The state tax plus the 6
Ner sent increase without these
measures would have been approxi-
nnately $3.40O,000, but with the in
creased tax it amounts to approx
nlately $9,500,00O of which Polk
s5ounty taxpayers must pay their
part
Polk county school districts have
voted an increase of $17,7O9.85
asver 1919.
The general road levy of 1920 is
- of a mill less than in 1919, but
an the other hand the people of
road districts TIA and Is, voted a
special tax on themselves, the total
amount of which is $18,205.63.
In 1920 all school districts not
hl1ving high school had to pay al
high school tax of 26,325.1S or anI
aucrease over 1919 of $8,614.4O.
The total tax to be collected byI
dhe sheriffs office for 1920 Isl
1860, ,B77.63 Or an increase of S43,-
9DS.40 over last year.
IL is my aim to attempt an equal
azsltion in assessments, when wei
assess this year as at present the
property of the county is not equit- |
ably assessed. / also contemplate |
raising the assessed valuation of all |
sHoperty which will not increase |
Iile taxes. one cent, but will benefit
NIs all as a whole. At present we
have ratio OF 40 per cent or in
@fher words property is supposed to
be assessed at 40 per cent of its
asash valuation which is the lowest
Df any county in the state. Some
stssfess ms high as 81 per cent. 1t is
,unJust to us to advertise our coun-
Ny at the valuation of $4,000, 600.
when 1t is worth in reality three
JiInes that amount. People from
the east coming here sometimes
hesitate to purchase property at
fbe market price because the as ,
sssSsment roll shows il assessed at
? small per cent of the market 4;
za-ice
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
Benefit Dance for
Silverton Library
Is Well Attended

Silverton, Ore, Feb. ia st.
Valentines dance was given last
evening at the armory for the
benefit of the public library. 1t
was largely attended. Every year
the young people of Silver5on have
given a benefit ball about this
time of the season and turn the
proceeds over to the library, and
each occasion has been success.
said exceeded all previous oc-
casions from the standpoint of
finance. A very interesting pro-
gram was rendered during the
evening consisting of solo work
and dancing specialities, Mrs.
White of Salem was in charge of
this feature.
The libray is receiving much at
tention at the present time and is
classed among the best in the
been ordered and will be added
to the already large collection of
good books.
Miss Minnie Gehren, who has
been living at the home of her
parents at South Silverton, left
the latter part of the week for
Portland where she will be employ
ed for some time.
The musical concert given at the
Trinity church Friday evening by
Prof. Torflinn Littere was a grand
success. The crowd was large and
the entertainment was of high
class. Prof. Torflin made many
friends while in the city for this
and it will be arrang-
ed for repetition of the program
at some future date.
1t is understood that the big
damage case of the Silverton
Lumber Co. VS. the Silver Falls
Timber Co. will come up in circuit
court in Salem, February "a. This
IS the greatest case ever under
Laken in this vicinity and it 10
considerable attention.
#. b. Keelan returned the first
of the week from Southern Cali
Fornia where he had been on busi-
ness for several days.
VIM. Robinson has purchased
rom T. r. Shockley the restaur-
mt he established several years
Igo. Mr.. Robinson sold the place
md moved to Bend, Ore, and ,
rrived here a few days ago clos ,
ng the deal at once. He says
here is no place in Oregon like
iilverton and is glad to get back.
Miss Louise Fluhrer arrived
lere during the week end from ,
spokane, Wash. and will be emp
Dyed in the backery which was
purchased recently by her father.
frs. Fluhrer is expected this
week.
Miss Marie Tringlestad has been ,
listing her brother, Marin, and
amily at their countlv home south
# Salem.
Mrs. Mary Hoge he's returned
rom Portland where she went to
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
10 Relieve Catarrh,
Catarrhal Deafness
And Head Noises

Persons suffering from catarrh
al deafness, or who are growing
hard Of hearing and have head
noises will be glad to know that
TINS distressing affliction can usu
aily be successfully treated at
home by an internal medicine that
in many instances has effected
complete relief after other treat
ments have failed. Sufferers who
could scarcely hear have had their
hearing restored to such an ex-
tent that the tick of a watch was
plainly audible seven or eight
inches away from either ear.
Therefore, If you know of someone
who is troubled with head noises
or catarrhal deafness, cut out this
formula and hand it to them and
you may have been the means of
saving some poor sufferer perhaps
from total deafness. The prescrip-
tion can be prepared at home and.
is made as follows:
Secure from your druggist or.
Parmint double strength.) Take
this home and add to II u pint of
hot water and a little granulated
sugar; stir until dissolved. Take
one tablespoonful four times a
dav.
Parmint is used in this way not
only to reduce by tonic action the
inflammation and swelling in the
Eustachian tubes and thus to
equalize the air pressure on the
drum, but to correct any excess of
secretions in the middle ear, and
the results it gives are nearly al
ways quick and effective.
Every person who has catarrh
in any form, or distressing rumb-
ling, kissing sounds in their ears,
should give this recipe trial.
(adv)
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
Fiat PruneS-
NcMIYMedS Honor Guests.

Pratum, Ore, Feb. 10 Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Kuenzi are visiting
at the home of his parents, east
Of here. They were married at the
home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Kaufman, at Portland, a
few days ago, and are on a visit to
his parents and other relatives for
a few days before going to their
home in Portland. A party of
friends gave them very hearty
reception a few nights ago.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
''GetS-It''
Ends All
COrnS

1aFsl as Good for CalIuscs. Money
Back IL it Fails
Thirty seconds after you touch
nht corn with this liquid corn re-
mower the iabbing. stabhing pain
1f II stops, for all time.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
Gervais

Gervais Feb. 15.-Joha Delano
Of Dows, Iowa, is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. w. G. Imam. who
reside here. This is Mr.. Del1po's
first trip to the west.
Tom Laird, proprietor of the Gel-
vais drug store, is quarantined in
his home for smallpox. All the
school children were vaccinatel as
soon as the case was reported. This
is the only case of this disease to
= u1nnnu. nc Hrnt
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15

Hubbard, Or, Feb. f5.---Oscar
Pnyne' a student OF Willamette uni.
Ffrsity, supplied in the pulpit of
the Hubbard Methodist church
SUNDAY In the absence of the pas
lor' Rev, William Nichon. Rev. Mr..
Nieholi was unable 10 preach AS he
mad sent the revious night 1t the
bedside of DR.. e. SherN, God of
himbal college of theology. who
aiied Sunday.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
Faulty Drain Is
Cause of Hubbard
School Holiday

Hubbard, Or. Feb. 15.-On &C.
count of n drain in the basement
.si the Hubbard school building fail
lilE TO function the pupils wore tn
noying "A holiday Monday.
me ground is so saturated with
wafer from the recent rains that
ahe water backs up through the
dFains into the basement.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15

to be six or eight inches deep
While snow has fallen two Or
three times near Silverton during
the winter, this is the first to stay
on the ground that has occurred
this season. At the Silverton log
ging camps the snow is said to be
nearly a foot deep.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15
Aurora

Aurora. or Feb. t5-W Z. Urn
nian' war risk insurance examipcr.
+ In town today from headoliarfsrs
ain Portland
Z. j. SNYDER returned SUNDAY
night from Banks, or, where he
mas been managing a hardware
store for G. r Watt of Aurora
Mr.. Watt spent the Weekend I'm
hanks' looking after his business
anterests thcre.
AeIio Schwab and family we're
visiting relatives I'm Gervais over the
week -end.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-15

SilvertOn Has Snow.

Silverton, Ore, Feb. 15.- Snow
fell to depth of two or three
inches in town Sunday afternoon,
and in the Silverton hills it is said