Show 1 j. 1 M 4 S t r Sc S Big B g Secret S j 1 h s O Ot af Last ast Elks t Minstrel 1 Sh Show w BEST PEOPLE ONIt ONI- ONI t EARTH TURN p ACTORS ACTORS- f All ll This Will Occur on No No- 30 29 and Der December December De- De I cember 1 r h- h to I S BACKES ES SPILLS BEANS r Pr ss' ss Agent Announces Engagement En En- gement for Show S of Tom Homer By By Harry E. E MacPherson 1 The press press agent of the worlds world's famous fa a- a Elks Elks' minstrels has not arrived in in- town to-n. The rhe p. p a. a has been herp with Wt u us all the time Ume He lIe is C- C Ba kes Backes differs from ordinary nary nary press agents in that he doesn't i come e around to the newspaper of- of flees with a box of cigars c gars and an au 1 for the use of tho the editorial i staff and then ask and plead for fot a i line five notice next to reading mat mat- i tar Mackes doesn't even write out I his Ills own stuff lie He blows into the editorial department with an I I 1 own the the- joint air and doesn't request a athing thing He ITo demands that a large piece be 10 written about the coming I Ii show j Nobody but Backes or Tom Torn Homer i could get fet away with such stuff and jeven j II I even they couldn't if It hey bey didn't represent represent rep rep- I resent the UH Best People on Earth But i since it is Backes and the aforesaid I In B. B P. P O. O E. E involved here bere goes Thc Elks are ar going to have a show over oer at the Salt Lake theatre on the the nights of November 29 and 30 ann and December 1 It is going to be SOME i show too It is promised that it y l be such be such a hot number that ste steam jm heat liea in the theatre thearo will be te 1 even ry even If the if-the the nigh Sare j i cold Thus modestly does the press J Jagen agen agent t give out ott the advance f t tion A total of REAL PEOPLE will take ta part in this wonderful ex exhibition ex- ex each each one an artist and ande e each ch chone one in his or her own private ton Ion and those of their relatives the the best in the show In addition there will be fifteen note fifteen note the statistics statistics- pieces Dieces the Jn-the orchestra stra There will vill he be drums and horns bortis and nd fiddles fiddled cat and d everything just ke just ke a a. reg regular lar orchestra or ot- ot chestra only more so The fhe orches- orches orchestra tra ira will be provided with pl plenty of bi of forte Jorte so 80 that in the event any of the singers strike a bum burn note or their vocal cords become knotted such sucha a mUd mill unpleasantness m ma may y be drowned in a con chord of sweet sweetS S instrumental sounds Torn Tom T m Homer has been mentioned before Homer has bas a good disposition tion and Back Backes s says you can kid kid him all you want to Tom is not going to he be the whole show but he will be an important end end end-an an end man The directors have been urging the popular comedian comedian come come- dian to In go we on the boards without mak makeup up and nd so get soine some but ut j J I Homer has J as said paid no If he be cant can't dress I up likes like a a. a rca real he aint goin goIn go- go go 1 i in to play He figures people can cam see him hini i in ordinary action by all all- lug ing anyway ing-anyway any any clay at the county Bounty building I ISo So he has commenced his bis work worl of I buying enough burnt cork to make I him corking a good end man Homers Jokes will be written for j I him him ther ther not pot be original with i iTom 1 Tom The show producers want this I distinctly understood Ba l s the backbone of the show how It has Its s beet been t broken He means j by that hat not that the big affair has has' j had Jad an accident but that the 1 est work of rehearsing has already j been passed and that the performers perform perform- perform perform-I ers are now rapidly whipping into j I shape Charles Kent is in charge of the show Dancing rehearsals I are I held at in hi the afternoon and aud the chorus at 8 o'clock ck ever every 3 h |