Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 23 | How Morris Made Good

I How Morris Made Good New York At his plain flattop desk deskin in the apartment adjoining the American Music hall hail in West ond street New York there sits daily dally planning and smiling a man who has built up an entirely Independent vaud vaude vaudeville ville yule circuit to cover the whole United States That man Is William Morris Morris The Independent who In the American Music hall hail this city gives weekly dem demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations of ot his vaudeville belligerency Independence Is as characteristic of his personality as It Is of his circuit ot of the theatres theatres theatres atres Within a year and a half this mil mu militant manager with a capital that con consisted slated of little else than his experience and that flattop desk laid the foundation of his present success by obtaining the lease of tho the old American theatre in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City He was soon so firmly allied with for fortune fortune fortune tune and opportunity and fortified with friendships of financial value alue that In this comparatively brief period he has become the controlling spirit and unhampered di dl director director rector of a business organization which controls a circuit of vaudeville theatres extending from coast to coast and from gulf to gulf and even beyond the Canadian border In all nearly half balf halfa balfa I a hundred theatres Briefly this is the history of at William Morris the man who many prophesied would meet failure in his monumental un undertaking undertaking undertaking within thirty days daya after he started his opposition to them When he had successfully established himself In Inthe Inthe inthe the thriving past east Morris made the an announcement announcement announcement that within six months he would Invade Chicago the vaudeville stronghold of the middle west Again he proved himself a prophet He 1 had in six months time made an alliance with western capitalists whereby a chain of between twenty and thirty theatres in inthe Inthe inthe the principal cities between Chicago and San Francisco have haye been added to his i list and the last link of the circuit now Is effectually welded