Show the theatrical season opened last thursday Thur sJay with the presentation in the loc local al opera house of joshua simpkins we wish that we could say something of this show not for the sake of the company alone but for the sake of our own town but there was nothing to it it was simply one of those stereotyped empty affairs that we see sec more than a dozen of every year in conversation with the opera house manager we learned that they are helpless in overcoming this evil as we please to call it our readers perhaps do not understand that the theatrical trust is one of the most and perfectly trusts in the united states stales today there is a semblance sem bem blence of competition within this gigantic r combination it is only a semblance sem blence however for the different so called circuits work perfectly into each others hands the opera house management became dissatisfied with avith souie some of th the e shows perpetrated upon us last season and made an all earnest endeavor to ta get this house included in a circuit that at the time lime conti condolee condoled con doled oled such plays as kerry gow cow and As you like it etc they succeeded in being transferred all right but later received word floell tile new circuit bosses that it would lie be impossible for them to keep their contract on account of agreements previously entered into with tile the old circuit managers and there you are experienced men say that even if the ile new contract had been kept smaller companies would have been traded off on us so we would have fared but little better furthermore it ft would lie be useless to disregard the trust and take lake chances chanced of getting an all occasional troupe because everything that Is worth while is gobbled up by the trust tile the only way that we can call see to avoid being hoodooed hoodoo ed every once in a while by these bum plays is to cut them all out and use our efforts towards sustaining a home compa company ny we believe this could ae aone done by a little operation cooperation co 1 ea I 1 P r jt t to tale sold by alt y |