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Show BECKER URGES ! SHOW SUPPORT Ogden Sportsman Talks to Progressives on Ogden 's Rodeo Future support Of Ogden'9 lli west -liow was urged of members of the j I Progressive Business club at the noon luncheon today by G I, Becker. Ogden sportsman who outlined the ( Importance of such an exhibition here i ' a nnua lly. j "The wild west show can bo made ! ti ilo for Ogden what Frontier Da has done for Cheyenne. Wyoming. " ' the speaker declared. "A foundation was laid last year and the movement should not be allowed to die, ' RKK SHOW MOVIKS Following the luncheon tho Progressives Pro-gressives went to the Alhambra theater thea-ter where a special showing of tho I motion pictures of the wild west BhO1 had been arranged fur them iy n i Skinner, manager of the theatre A special musical program was ! listened tO with delight by the 1 n t members at the luncheon. Miss Beck . Almond of Salt I -a lie offered piano selections which were greeted with prolonged applause. A .T. Wright, chairman of the entertainment com- 1 mlttee, in Introdin ing the pianist ex- , plained that Miss Almond was the ! only woman member of the Progressive Progress-ive Business c lub In Utah Mrs. Ber- i nice Tyrec i.f tigilen sang vocnl aelec-i' tions. Mrs. Roland Ecoh s 01 ' Igden I Was the accompanist. BACK It A.sl .B 11. I 1,1 B The club membership voted that a ! baseball committee be appointed to .work with representatlvea of othei ClU'ba In tho sale of season tickets to I insure the sun ess of Ogden'a baseball club, The committee will be appointed appoint-ed at once by President .Limes Scow-' Scow-' croft. Visitors at the luncheon todav were 1 Vern WJataon J. U. Wilcox. G L. Becket and John Fair. HI .( I I It's VDDItl ss. In outlining- thi' purposes and ajmB of the wild wesl show and makinf ;a report, of the first exhibition held i here last fall. Mr. Becker said: "1 arn sun- It is needless for me to say thai i welcome the opportunity Which came last week to invite you to si. in. wild West picture. I am glad you accepted the invitation. 1 was anil am indebted to you for the privilege I had to address you last fall. In my closing remarks at the time I urged you to support the Ogden Wild West show as a home institution. On Labor Day there were 8.000 people peo-ple in attendance They looked like 1 SOU. OiiO to me My friend. Col. Dix. who w.iw with me swore there were eight million. Not only were the grand Btand mil the blenehers filled ! to overflowing, but every tree was filled with boys, as thick as black I birds, and thori u:im a boy or man I Over and under ev ery fool Of the east i fence. 1 remember this distinctly be-j be-j cause it seemed to me on that pur-Clcular pur-Clcular day there wasn't one place m j the horizon where I pointed my gun ; to shoot that there wasn't a human 1 being or a human bird in the way -;;. ept directly In the sun. W hen ' safely first Is the first consideration in handling flrearma thai w;t-s a problem prob-lem to contend with. FOUND TIov TiAID. "The show proved a success in every way Financially, the promoters of the show. Messrs Barton. Fox, Dix. Captain Bundy and others, did not realize a profit. I understand, but they have tin satisfaction of knowing that they Inaugurated and laid the foundation founda-tion for an Ogden enterprise, now a civl- institution, which I think will do for Ogden what Fr-intier Day h;ts ; done for Cheyenne, provided of ObUTSe ' that the show- will always be kept clean and high class. "The picture which It's been my privilege to Invite ou to see is llke-I llke-I wise a home product. U was made through tii enterprise of your cham- I '"'r of commerce Mr 1 1 K. skinner ol the Afhambra theater, and thai visard worker in photography, George v Goshen. The picture cost upwards I of ?(00 to produce which covers cost of materials and certain laboratory work only Mr Goshen handled the mechanical and technical work Aith-out Aith-out charge. 'Ihis picture has br-en fhown in a number of cities throughout Utah, Idaho and Wyoming and Colo i ado. The picture worked In Ne w Vrk for a period of 30 days and in Chicago for 17 days, and will be ship-; ped to Indiana within a few days for a n indefinite run 'You get the entire afternoon's per-I per-I formance of the Rodeo in about 40 minutes and without the du-t 1 hope I the picture will please you.'" |
