Making Good on The "Big Time"

Right down in the deepest heart of every "ten-twentythirty" is the conviction that he could make good on the Big Time if he only got the chance to break in.

We ourselves have been rather prominent in our own territory-headliners in our small circuit-playing to full houses. And we too, feel that our acts would "go big" if we ever succeeded in getting on the Big Time.

The occasion has now been made-we have our chance; the stage is set and the house is filled with an audience predisposed in our favor.

' Are we going to MAKE GOOD or must we go back to the tanks?

There's a different standard here. We have an orchestra instead of the old tinny piano and traps. We have a full electrical equipment, top, wings, flood, specials, to enhance the beauty of our act instead of merely the "spot" of the movie machine.

We have every aid to make our act "go big"-well lighted, comfortable dressing rooms, intelligent stage hands, ample scenery; and if we do not take full advantage of them and put on our act in true Big Time style, it will be a confession that we are out of our class-and we'll be pushed back to the 10-20-30.

No longer do we have the dime crowd, satisfied with fifteen minutes of slap-stick and rough make-up. No longer do we have the truck driver of the contractor to form the only connecting link between our lumber yard and Mr. Allcash's new residence.

Today we are playing to Mr. Allcash HIMSELF. Our act is no longer that broad farce: "Piles o' Stuff," in the variety theayter down by the deepo.

Our new Big Time act is presented at the MajesticIarge company-superb cast-full orchestra-new scenery -and is that beautiful play entitled: "The Home of Your Dreams."

Yesterday we played the little farce half a dozen times to a ten-cent crowd.

Today we are invited to present the new play to a select audience of $1.50 seats.

And we're going to PUT IT OVER.

Let's cast our parts, check over the props, set the stage and rehearse our parts for the BIG ACT OF THE SEASON.

Have your plan books and pictures and designs and samples all'ready to show at the proper moment. It spoils the scene and incites the ribald laughter of the gallery to have the hero shout: "Take that in the heart, rascal," and the villain drop down and die with fearful struggles after props forgot to put the blank in the pistol.

AND REMEMBER YOUR LINES. Imagine the effect should the leading man clasp the beautiful girl to his manly

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