Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON TO BE A barnstormer NO NEED to ask anybody in the profession that Is the business what Is meant by a barnstormer the term la well known and to many of the old timers brings back happy or not so happy recollections depending possibly on just how keen is ones memory now ever even the rest of the world probably knows that a barnstormer is an actor who performs in the small towns traveling from to place and almost literally as the saying goes living in a valise this term barnstormer seems puzzling until the information ia fur nashed that it Is an allusion to the days when our small towns did not boast fhe theatrical emporiums that they do today and when many a play was staged in a farmers roomy barn copyright n |