Show gent Says Play L Producing Is Art ArtAnd ArtlAnd lAnd And Not Business lix general n l representative tl lot Jo New York winter garden was In Ie city to conclude final ar- ar for the opening of The Pass- Pass Show which comes to the Salt Lake tre week week beginning Monday night pill 6 Ii It was vas while speaking of ot the tie outlay of ot money which the ther r Shubert made In lri staging The assing Show h that he entered into to a 1 of t theatrical h t c le lep p production t o ESome Some people he says assert that production product n at the present time fa Ia business and not an art They have I ver er stopped to think of ot the vast sums aunts I lat are lost every year In theatrical vez- vez tree ires s men want a greater er safety id certainty err U in nf their business Kit it t is bard hard to find the public pulse I o. o manager living JIving can cansay say beforehand lat a this or that production will be a success Also no manager has has' Jr lr succeeded In forecasting the ex- ex ISM he will be put to in any given ture The cost of ot production has dou- dou ed over ed-over ver prewar times It probably ld ild Id have cost con about to put pat The Passing Show in tho old nays das of ot ow it costs a R. fortune Hundreds of ot additional dollars are spent scenery and Imd costumes costumes and and the tho cos- cos Ees' Ees es have to be the most dazzling pro- pro ble for or an proportion lh h public 1 is tal taking it its styles 5 fro from r that r answer to the argument rs r's of stage ventures is a busl- busl g s an and l not an art Is that press notices I ft make or break a show This is not ue of or a a. business but business but only of ot art Why are men like J. J J. J Shubert spend- spend their lives in the game If It Is un- un Because of the fascination ley tey just lust cant can't break away awa It Is the eath of life lire to them It If they they make maken v n ney y they are no happier than If if they seit e It They k know ow the they are engaged In Ini i |