. The romance of a western boy; the story of Corse Payton. CHAPTER IX. TYPES OF THEATRICAL MANIA. VERY theatrical managerhas, in his fnnd of anec-dotes, some hnmorons ex-periences with the smalltown bill-poster; for thesmall town bill-poster is given tovagaries of the most weird andfantastic order. Dnring one of their earlyseasons the Payton Company fonnd themselveson one occasion the victims of snch a was an ambitions sort. That can be said inhis favor. He wanted to see the show well ad-vertised, and certainly did everything in hispower towards that end. Some few weeks before the Pa
. The romance of a western boy; the story of Corse Payton. CHAPTER IX. TYPES OF THEATRICAL MANIA. VERY theatrical managerhas, in his fnnd of anec-dotes, some hnmorons ex-periences with the smalltown bill-poster; for thesmall town bill-poster is given tovagaries of the most weird andfantastic order. Dnring one of their earlyseasons the Payton Company fonnd themselveson one occasion the victims of snch a was an ambitions sort. That can be said inhis favor. He wanted to see the show well ad-vertised, and certainly did everything in hispower towards that end. Some few weeks before the Payton paper hadbeen pnt into his hands for display he had postedconsiderable advertising matter for a big patent. TYPES OF THEATRICAL MANIA. 93 medicine firm. The advertising space in histown was not, however, equal to the amonnt ofpaper in his possession, and, after covering everyfence and barn in the vicinity, he still had a num-ber of bright colored bills left over. Amongthese bills was a picture. It was a very prettypicture, and Mr. Bill-Poster felt considerablecompunction about wasting it, so concluded tokeep it to use for the next show. The next showhappened to be Corse Pay tons. When that company arrived in Mr. Bill-Posterstown they were amazed to see everywhere on bill-boards and fences the familiar printing for Cas-carets, but with their own date sheets pasted onin such a way to make the bills read, Corse Pay tons Company, 1 -i—^- j- They work while you sleep. ] CORSE PAY TONS |_ COM PANY The people who are stage-struck and those who thinkthey can write plays furnishboth pathetic and humorousincidents in the lives of actors. The stage-struck people are legion. Most ofthem, too, are of
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