Show I I I I GA CARPENTER PENTER ATTACKS ATTACKS' COUPONS REPLIES TO SIMS Declares Giving Away of Theatre Tickets a Pernicious Pernicious Pernicious Per Per- Custom In a 0 purported Interview written by bythe bytho bythe the tho pre press agent which In Monday Mon Ion day day evenings evening's evenings TELEGRAM Manager er R H A. A A Sims Kims of the American theatre heaved a brickbat In tho the direction of the writer whom he designated a loyal citizen en engaged engaged en- en tse In ip knocking his home town The Interview went on further to state that there was a nl ber In the wood woo pUe etc ote Ne Needless less to remark the these tes so harsh heh sentiments sent sent- senti ments meats refer to the coupon plague from tram which Salt Lake Le has suffered for a year ea past past According AccordInG to the argument of ot the deadhead deadhead dead dead- ded- ded head Incubators Incubator If It your friend la Is suffering suter- suter suffering suffer suffer- ing In from cancer and you ou advise him hm to toI cut It I out you OU are arc disloyal Tho The proper way to treat tret cancer Is to jol Jolly your our friend along alonG until you ou are ae called cale In tn to officiate as pallbearer Taking TakinG each paragraph para aph In rotation Mr tr Sims opines that this coupon cupon business Is causing a great deal of ot agitation and arid he thinks much of it I has been unnecessary unnecessary- He lie le argues that Ut a a theatre manager has a perfect right to go Into the coupon business bust busi ness floss If i he ho sees fit ft and arid ho he falls fails to sc see etc the difference between exchanging a 0 coupon for a th theatre atro ticket and exchanging a coupon cupon for tor a n set act of ot dishes dishes- dishes He lie le Is right there thero Is no difference Whether It Is tickets tick tick- ets etc dishes or a n house and lot the system system tem tern Is wrong rong The Tho writer never has has' had hadu hada hal u a quarrel with lh Mr Sims or an any other theatre manager It Is the system he has hns been attacking Mr Ir Sims places the value of a coupon at one ono and third one third on-third cent each L Let Lct t an any th theatrical manager contract for tor advertising advertis advertis- ing space apace occupied b by a 0 single coupon and he will 11 ted nd that the space occupied will cost him exactly 3 In fn hard coin Tho The wi argument th that t all aU the tho coupons appearing appearing appearing ap ap- ap- ap In tho the newspapers are not re redeemed redeemed redeemed re- re deemed reminds one of ot the boy caught In the I 1 took tooka stealing jam pantry gantry only a little taste TH THE TELEGRAM claims 1000 circulation This means that there thera are free theatre tickets available each v cek eek for one theatre the only In Salt SnIt Lake provided provIde everybody cashed In iii Tho The ate that thc they dont don't Is neither hero nor there and plea please A be bear lr In mind that there are ore nino nine moving picture houses three e vaudeville theatres one stock house one vacant theatre and ant the Salt Sal Luke Lake theatre or fifteen Oteen theatres In all al If I f ev everybody ev- ev got Into tho game It I would be fifteen times 4 or a grand gand total o of f free c tickets each ech week In oth other oIlIer r words e every T man woman and child In II Salt Sl Lake City would have ha e to visit a theatre theatre thea thea- thea- thea tre ti-c six sL nights every er c week and then the thc theatres theates could cut down dowil expenses by abolishing abol abol- g the box tOX office As the coupon system Is operated in Salt Sal Lake this tiis state of ot affairs Is 18 Impossible Im Im- im- im possible thanks to tho the restraint of oC trade clause claus In the coupon agreement agreement The American theatre which also Ilso owns th the Liberty Libert Is the on only I motion moton picture house permitted to handle coupons In one news neWs- paper In ehn exchange o the theatre Is given advertising space and tho the other managers purchase their space at regular theatrical rat rates s and th their lr ads In comparison look like the pro proverbial lead let dime And that thatIs Is the thc In the wood woo pile pie Tho The writer agrees arces with Sir Mr Ir Sims that Salt Sal Lake Is a 8 good go show town and he ho holias has lias been ben In this city some somo twenty three years ears longer all aU of oC which hleb time he has been in iii close touch with mth both hoth newspaper newspaper per and amusement conditions here sn and believes that ho knows the situation perhaps perhaps per per- haps better beter than a a recent resident of ot Ogden Ogden Last summer eummer an enterprising motion moton picture man nn In In Sanpete county went after Salt Sal Lakes Lake's dubious distinction of being being a deadhead city ct Whenever er his competitor put on a good feature he threw thre open his doors and invited Invie the to come and see his show free To the writer it looks ns s though Ephrim had It a shade over Salt Lake Lako just Just a shade hade however lo How do you like the tho argument you ou working men that tho tile coupons help out the small smal wage man man That has ha been advanced It I almost sounds like a charitable chari- chari chant charit able proposition There must be something rotten Totten roten In Denmark because if this coupon scheme I is Ie such a winning wInnInG proposition for the theatre manager how is It that ono one of ot the most astute astuto and biggest circuit cir cli- cult presidents in the tho world turned ture It I I down own cold when It was put up to him In the presence of oC the writer a few months ago aGo this gentleman genteman sid said I will wJ close up the tho Salt Lake house b boro Coro I Iwi will wi consent to it It It Unless a halt is Ie called he bids fair to carry carr out out his determination all aU of which would mean not less than cash each year being withdrawn from cir circulation lr- lr In ill Salt SaIL Llie Lake City If I that be he knocking Salt Lake make the tho most of It It GEORGE E E. CARPENTER |