v THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 7, 1920.
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HOW WOULD . YOU LIKE
The Box Office Oak?
HER WORK IS NOT SO
EASY AS FT LOOKS
Women More Fastidious Than
Men in Selecting
s Theater Tickets.
There, are some mortals who be
lieve that the last word in occupa
tional greatness is to sit behind a
box office window and sell tickets
"to the show." Some believe that
this is about as easy as eating
pumpkin pie, but the work is not
.all sunshine and smiles, if the state
ment of these public servants mav
be accepted according to the stand
ards which George Washington es
tablished. The work has some alluring fea
tures and ofttimes it tests the tem
peramental qualities of the subject
The casual observer sees only the
outside. He thinks it is easy to hand
.out the tickets and take in the money
and wishes that he might fall into
something which seems to be the
mere simulation of work.
' Here is a typical situation of the
many which occur during the day's
work at the box office: There is a
line being held by a person who
believes in the divine right of im
pressing individual importance. He,
orx it may be a "she," seems to
gloat over the fact that he is hold
ing the line. t
Shifts to Other Foot.
"What kind of seats do you
have?" Jhe asks, with "aggravating
co'nplacency.
"We have" them from SO cents to
$2.50 each, plus the war tax. How
many do you wish?" the box office
official inquires, casting a. furtive
glance along the row of impatient
faces.
"I don't want the seats behind a
post. Are you sure they are not be
hind a post?" the person of inquir
ing mind continues, while a fat man
in the line stands on his other foot
and inwardly- says some mean
thitvgs.
The box office person would like
to reply "We will have all of the
posts removed for you," ,but he puts
on a sickly smile and assures the
prospective patron that there are
some seats with unobstructed view
and he gently reminds him that
there are others waiting to be
served. The transaction is ac
complished and the line moves up
another notch, whereupon the next'
in line remarks something about the
nerve of some people's children, or
he says something just as meaning
ful. Lots of Amusement
"Oh, yes, we have lots of amuse
ment along the way; it is not. all
gloom," the veteran box officcfnan
remarked, reminiscently. "Frequently
we have a visit from the person who
asks to have tickets held. He asks
'Will you be sure to hold those
seats?' A woman asked me that
question three times yesterday and
I was tempted to repiy that we
would hold the seats, because they
were fastened to the floor and I
was sure they would not get away."
Rut business, ethics required that I
should smile, which I did, and I
We Are Pleased' to Announce to Oar
Friends and Customers
the arrival of the first trainload, containing 50'carloads of
NASH SIXES, Built In
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This train arrived in Omaha at 7 o'clock aturday morning, accompanied by our
own representatives, having left our factory .at Kenosha, Wisconsin, at 8 o'clock
Wednesday night, making the run to Omaha in the remarkable time of 60 hours via
th$ Northwestern Line. . v ' N '
The wonderful demand for the Nash Six, with its perfected valve-in-head motor, is
enabling the Nash Motors Company to build their product in a continually increasing
production. ' ' ' ; 1
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also thought that I would not want
to be her husband.
"Then we have the man who eats
garlic and insists on letting us know
Ut The most adorable type is the
woman who requires about five min
utes to find her. money. Life would
be dull without her. We utter a
prayer of thanks for the man who
comes up to the window, throws
down a bill and says 'Gimme two
of ypm best seats.'
here is another type-rthe per
son who wants to know all about
the play, and sometimes we have
people who, want to see the seats
before they will buy tickets.
Full of Human Interest.
"I tell you it is a great life if you
don't weaken. It is full of human
interest and is fine and dandy if you
don't take it too seriously. One soon
learns a thing, or twovabout human
nature. The dilatory ones usually
respond to a little coaching, when
there is a rush. When we see a
bald-headed man at the window, and
if it is that kind of a show, we know
he wants seats in the front row."
The box office ticket seller knows
every seat of his house and he has
tickets for each seat and for each
open date. This requires 14 sets
of tickets for a week in a theater
having performances every after
noon and every evening. In the
sale of tickets for advance perform
ances the box office attendant must
be sure that the tickets given are of
the date and performance- desired.
Even in the best of regulated the
aters a mistake will occur now and
then. Occasionally a patron will
present tickets which bear a date
other than the one of which they are
offered:
In the box office charge d'affairs
sells all tickets for a performance,
it is not difficult to check his cash,
because he knows how many seats
there are of each admission price
and the application of a little multi
plication wil show the "amaunt of
5 and 7-Passenger Touring Cars
4-Passenger Sport Models "
Distributors
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the house." Tickets not sold are
known as "deadwood," which must
be counted in order to determine
the amount of cash he should have,
and the stubs collected by the door
man is another check against the
box office cash drawer. -
The advent of the movie theater
has brought an increased demand for
women ticket sellers in the regular,
a well as the motion picture thea
ters. The strip tickets which arc
sold at the movie houses do not en
tail much clerical work, for they are
numbered serially or their sale reg
istered automatically. This simplifies
the box office work ,
Another duty of the box office
clerk in the regular theaters is the
filling of advance ticket orders. Some
patrons reserve the same seats for
the entire season' and it would be
an agreious error to sell their seats
Dutton Exhibit at Show
Attracts Much Attention
Ench year the Kissel exhibit at the
Automobile show has some out
standing feature that is ,the big tre
.nendous hit of the week. This year
they pulled off a double-header from
the standooint of attractiveness. The
Kissel jsiix-passenger sedan was ac
claimed the handsomest and most
practical closed car of the show. Its
straight line body, with remarkable
seating .space for six people, imme
diately attracted theNman or woman
who desired to sombine the practical
with the beautiful.
The red sport model Kifsel speed
ster was the sensational hit of the
show. This car is'a real sport model
jn every sense and its attractiveness
was proclaimed by the thousands of
people who were continually crowd
ed about it from the time the show
opened in the morning until the
closing 'at night.
The two cars above mentioned,
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wrn a1 oig moon o-ho louring cari
completed the Dutton exhibit
2-Passenger Roadsters
Sedans and Coupes
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by mistake. Others telephone ad
vance orders which are held until a
certain time, when they are releasel
for general sale if not taken by the
original holders.
"I have found that patience and
tact are needed in this work," said a
box office woman. "At first I thought
I would never make good, because
when I taw that line out ahead of
me I became flustrated. As a rule
men are more reasonable than wo
men at the box office window. I
could almost scream sometimes when
I see a woman fuss through her
handbag looking (or her money, and
a line of people behind her. I like
meeting the public and I have learned
to like the work, of pleasing the
public at the box office. One grows
to almost anticipate their likes and
dislikes. . s
"It is amusing sometimes to hear
them .describing the kind of seats
they want My experience is that
all seats should be aisle seats if you
would satisfy the public. ButNthere
is no work quite so, interesting after
all. I like it." '
Many Years Necessary for
Light to Travel to Mass
London, March 6. British mathr
ematicians calculate it would take
many years to get a single wireless
message from Mars to the earth.
The time taken for a signal to pass
from the Eiffel tower, Paris, to Ar
lington, near Washington, and back,
a total distance of 7,674 miles, is
.006 seconds. , Consequently, a wire
less signal moving day and night
at the same rate would take four
years four months to reach Alpha
Centauri, the nearest star from the
earth, 40,000 billion kilometers dis
tant. Another proposal is to switch on
simultaneously the whole street
lighting of evey city in the United
States.
The combined street illumination
of London, probably the most bril
liantly illuminated city in the world,
is 1,250,000 candle-power. It was
calculated by a German scientist that
the smallest light signal visible on
Mars from the earth is 4,000,000,
000,000 candle-power. It would,
therefore, need the combined light
of millions of cities as brilliantly lit
up as the city of London to aggre
gate sufficient candle-power to flash
a light to Mars.
Omaha Auto Show Compares
Well With Eastern Shows
R. C Reuschaw, jr., son of the
president of the Mitchell Motor
company at Racine, Wis,, was a
visitor at the Omaha Automobile
show last week and guest of J. T.
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Mr. Reuschaw expressed the opin
ion that the Omaha show equals in
splendor and importance-everything
except the New York and Chicago
shows. Mr. Reuschaw has visited
the Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapo
lis, Nashville, St Louis and Louis
ville shows and feels that the Oma
ha show is holding its own with
all of these exhibits.
The Mitchell people are standard
izing on. a standard classis and mo
tor and in this way hope to bring
production to the maximum very
shortly.
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New Advertising Manager .
For Sprague Tires Is Here
Announcement is made by the
Sprague Tire and Rubber Co. of this
city of. the appointment of R. C
Hudson of Portage, Wis., as adver
tising manager.
Previous to his coining to Omaha,
Mr. Hudson was copy chief for the
Conner-Advertising Agency of Den
ver. He was formerly advertising
manager for the Denver Alfalfa
Milling and Products Co. of Lamar,
Colo. -For two years he was the
space buyer .for the Gramer
KrasseltAdvertising Agency of Mil
waukee. "
' Plans are now being made for a
more Extensive advertising campaign
which will fully acquaint auto own
ers of the western states with the
merits of Sprague tires and tubes.
"I have never sien a tire that
comes up to the Sprague," said Mr.
Hudson. "Its sales possibilities are
enormous, and I believe that the day
is not far distant when this Omaha
product will be known from coast
to coast.
Slang Gives Vigor to Our
Language Declares Woman
Chicaeo, March 6. Slang has a
vigor and freshness which ought to
be kept m our language ana cher
ished, in the ooinion of no less an
authority than, Mrs. Catherine
Knowles Robbins, chairman of the
American speech committee of the
Chicago Woman s club.
When. Bill sav. to Toe. "nine the
dame with , the trick lid," it isn't
vulgar.'
"What we object to, said Mrs.
Robbins. "is the cheap, vulgar slang
and endiess stupid repetition of cer
tain phrases.
She quoted slang expressions used
by master modern writers of Eng
lish, including some of the late
Theodore Roosevelt and some of
Woodrow Wilson.
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Automobile News-
From All the World
Frank C. Kip, former sales pVomo
tiun manager of the Packard .-Motor
Car company, has retired from the
distributers' corporation he formed
a year ago in San Francisco. Mr:
Kip gained success distributing
Hassler shock absorbers. He is
now forming a new corporation with
five Pacific coast branches and one
at-Denver to distribute Pasco wire
wheels, Empire tires and tubes,
Shaffer bearings, staff wrenches and
other lines. He already has 10 trav
eling men.
Definite announcement has been
made that the Elgin road race wil
be held in the fall of 1920. according
to Harry f. Jtsranstetter of cne Chi
cago Automobile club. The race will
be run on the old Elgin course,
some ime the latter part ot August
or the first part of September. The
exact date will depend upon the
coming of the Glidden tour.
Expansion plans of the' General
Dallas, Tex., in that a new building,
to cost in the neighborhood of $250,
OOO, will shortly be erected for the
use of the United Motors Service,
Inc., of Detroit, a subsidiary of the
General Motors corporation.
According to J. Walter Drake,
chairman of the board of directors
of the Hupp Motor Car corpora
tion, and also chairman of the for
eign trade committee of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce,
nine-tenths of all the automobiles
in the-world have been built in the
United States. During 1518, $63,
000,000 worth of passengef cars and
motor trucks were exported, de
spite greatly curtailed production.
Of these 41 went to Iceland and the
Faroe isfafids. In the first nine
SPECIAL AUTOMOBILE
ALL THIS WEEK
At the Automobile Show the crowds were
so large that it was impossible for us to go
over the car in detail with you as we would
like to have done, a :. 'T'p'K; 1 -
The Super-Six an& theEssxveMcli
Show
neat
thgm
are going to hold a "
at bur Show
We.will sHow.all the
the Show. We will be open every even
ing until Nine O'clock and hope we may
see you here.
We want an opportunity to show you the cars at
your leisure when we can give. you our undivided
attention. :,
We know our cars will give yoii the service you
expect out of the Motor Car you intend buying and
feel certain that we can prove this to your
satisfaction. V y
We would like to see you at this Special Showing,
and would appreciate ycr cajling. We know your
time will be well spent. : 1 ; - ; 1 :
There are not going to be enough cars to meet the demand this
yearWhy not make your selectiqn now when we can insure
delivery. , ..
-lEr Gumsmpi ran
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month .of 191, motor car ai.d truck
export? -exceeded,- $75,000.00 a
which rate the year's exporta
tion will be above $100,000,000, or an
increase of nearly 60 per cent over
1918. . i
, Eddie Rickenbacker, American ace
of acei, VViH, jri all probability, it is
reported from Ogden, Utah,' be the
leader of the aviators for the pro
posed air line between Denver, Og
den, Elko and San Francisco. Rick
enbacker, it is said, has been offered
a large salary to superintend the 500
tlanes that have been purchased by
the .Denver corporation promoting
the line.
Earl H. Sceibach. for several years
past connected with the motor
truck department of the Fierce-Arrow
Motor Car company, at Buf
falo, has joined the motot, truck de-
rtment of the rranklm Automo-
ile company, Syracuse, as assist
ant engineer.
Henrv Ford.' Thomas A. Edison
and others are said to have combined
to place upon the market a 1,000
pound electric car to sell at about
$1,000, and to carry as a great im
provement in electric automobile
production a small gasoline motor
which will keep the batteries re
charged constantly, and so give the
car almost equal distance range with
a gas car.
What appears to be a boon to the
aviation'world is a new motor which
has recently been, invented by Fred
Parker of Mankato, Minn. The mo
tor is a combination of four prin
ciples, the turbine, the rotary, the
supplicating and the oscillating mo
tor. ' The general principles of this
machine are taken from the Le
Rhone, the Simplex, the Beardmore
and the Gnome. A pecularity of the
engine is that there is no crank
shaft and no, valves. The - motor
gives eight power impulses per rev
olution. At s 1.400 revolutions per
minute the engine delivers an excess
of 47 horsepower, and at 2,700 rev
Rooms all this
that
opeciai uxniD
special cars we
"Service First"
OMAHA, 'U. S.. A.
olutions per minute the machine, is
capably of tioc4han W horsepowers,
The inventor. states that '2,700 rerg
olutions per minute is the fastest:
tha't the motor has been run, an.
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tnat it was discovered tnai ai i.wvtj
revolutions per minute the motoB
used the same amount of gasolin
and oil as a Ford engine did. Thfl
motor weighs 153 pounds complete
when it is ready to run, and is cora
posed of 76 parts. The oil is mixed?,
with the gasoline, and one of th
outstanding features of the motor Us
that while all others require castor,
oil this machine w,ill use any oil.
s Ground is about to be broken fo
the erection of the new Buffalo planiii
of the Philadelphia rubber workfci
Plans call for 'the construction of tj
$2,000,000 factory, and it' is estimated:;
that at the beginning of operations)!
bout 400 men will bev employed.
EMPIRE GARAGES
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I I U UP cn b. let up In few
hour.
All BUMI1VU BHU JWlll-vi.
10x12 Ford .1st $11S.OO
10x18...
133.00
10x18
10x20
12xl
12x18
143.00
152.00
180.00
160.00
12x20 189.00
.. 20x28, doubt 278.00
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