Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-06 | Page 7 | No More 'Roasts' for Small Towns

1 MORE IASTS' I FISiLLTOlS I Managers of the Vaudeville H Houses Asked to Eliminate I Disparaging Remarks. I "l spent a week in Ogden this aft- H ornoon" and other such .familiar friends from across the vaudeville- fool- lights may become obsolete in Salt H Lake City. The managers of the vaudeville houses have been uskod by H tho Commercial club to put a ban ou " disparaging1' remarks about the H neighboring towns. According to officials of the club, H residents of some of tho small towns have frequently remarked that when thoy came to Salt Lake and spent their H perfectly good money to see a vaude- H villc show here u part of it was de- H voted to paying the salary of someone H who ridiculed their homo towns. Ilonce, H their civic pride was aroused. H "How can wo expect Salt Lakers to H take an intorest in our welfare if, ev- H cry time they go to a vaudeville show, IH they hear remarks intended to picture this town or that as a "tank" and nothing more?" inquired a resident of a Salt Lake suburb. "We havo real towns and we are trying to make them H better. We want to encourage Salt H Lake people to come out and seo what wo have. This kind of advertising H doesn't help," And so it is that the czars of the H vaudeville houses will be asked to H paste a little notice on the call boards, announcing to ambitious comedians that none of this "rough stuff" about H Salt Lake's thriving suburbs will H "go" on the local stages. The letters H were sent to the managers yesterday.