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Show PASSiHG SHOW BOOKED IT ORPHEUM THEATRE FOR APHIL11. 12 Felix Rissrr, general representative ' of the New York Winter Garden, was ' in Ogden yesterday to conclude final ' arrangements with Manager J. F. Goss of the Orpheum theater for the pre-' scntation or the "Passing Show" which comes here April 11 and 12. It was while speaking of the tremendous tremen-dous outlay of money which the New' York Winter Garden made in stacinrri the "Passing Show" that he entered! into a discussion of theatrical production. produc-tion. He contends that it is an art and not a business. j "Some people assert that theatrical production at the present time Is a business and not an art. These people are not business men or they wouldn't say that. They have never stopped to th'nk of the vast sums that are lost every year in theatrical ventures. Business men want greater, safety and certainty in their business. "It is hard to find the public pulse. No manager living can say beforehand before-hand that this or that production will bo a financial success. Also, no manager man-ager has ever succeeded in forecast- ing the pxpensea he will be put to in I any given venture. Take transportation, transporta-tion, for instance. Imagine what it will cost us transporting the "Passing Show" from Buffalo, N. Y., to Ogdcn. That Is exactly what we have done. "The Passing Show" carries 200 people. peo-ple. It has five carloads of scenery and costumes and has an army of stage hsmds and mechanics. We don't know yet what the expense is going to be to bring it here. Jumps like that have to be made. Tho cost of production has doubled over pre-war times. It probably would have cost about $100,-000 $100,-000 to put "The Pawing Show" In the old days. Now it costs a fortune. Hundreds Hun-dreds of thousands of additional dol-Ir.rs dol-Ir.rs arc spent for scenery and costumes, cos-tumes, and the costumes have to be the most dazzluig procurable, for an o er increasing proportion of the public pub-lic is taking its style from the stage. , Another answer to the argument that tho producing of stage ventures is a business and not an art is that press notices can mnke or break a show. This is not true of a business but only of art." m-mmm |