The Rogers Amateur Productions

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The ROGERS AMATEUR PRODUCTIONS
WORLD'S LARGEST PRODUCERS OF PAGEANTS, REVUES, MUSICAL COMEDIES MINSTRELS AND SPECTACULAR SHOWS

John B. Rogers Producing Co.
DISTINCTIVE THEATRICALS WITH AMATEURS
Fostoria, Ohio



FOUNDATION AND GROWTH OF JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCTING COMPANY
JOHN B. Rogers Producing Company dates from a small beginning away back in 1903 when John B. Rogers staged his first play with amateur talent for the benefit of a local philanthrophy in his home town of Fostoria, Ohio.  At that time, as now, there were home talents as they were called then,—many of them,—but they were for the most part fearful and wonderful affairs—ineffectually managed and poorly staged,—the finished product being totally unlike anything ever seen on the professional stage.

But people in general seemed enthusiastic and appreciative—even in those days of crudities and Mr. Rogers felt there should be a field for such entertainments provided they could be directed so as to be enjoyable to the participants, interesting to the public, and last but not least, financially profitable to the promoters, including the local sponsoring society.

With these ideas in mind he set about to develop the business which today bears his name.  That he was successful beyond his fondest hopes is evident in the fact that today John B. Rogers Producing Company is one of the great institutions of the Country—its name being a household word thruout the United States and most of Canada, and as well known as Gold Medal Flour or any other nationally much used and popular article.  The Company now operates in practically every state in the Union and in Canada, in its amateur production department alone, staging more than one thousand plays each year.  Since the Company has been operating it has staged more than ten thousand amateur productions, for which it has trained more than eight hundred thousand amateur performers.  It has raised more than two and one-half million dollars for local charities!




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ERNEST L. SHERVEY Sales



HARRY E. MUNSEY Finance and Production



GRACE M. KIPKA Correspondence



WALTER M. WITHERSPOON Attorney



W. D. STEININGER Supplies



JOHN B. ROGERS President


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A Wide Range
THE productions range through plays without music, dramas, farces or comedies for small casts, musical revues, novelty entertainments, musical comedies, light operas, minstrelsy and pageantry.  There are types of production for very small communities or societies with limited facilities of talent and staging, and there are wonderful, elaborate spectacles for the largest cities and exclusive societies, which require entertainment to equal or surpass the most brilliant and unique New York professional productions.  A staff of experts are constantly at work originating and perfecting new entertainment ideas for the Company.

Like any other established business it has taken years of time, a large amount of capital and considerable managerial ability to make the Rogers Company occupy the position it does today.  The amateur show business is a precarious one for the investor with small capital or uncertain experience due to the fact that there are so many personal angles to the work and that to succeed means pleasing committees and a community rather than an individual.  One must have expert and high-priced directors, good equipment and an efficient central organization—all of which means a considerable investment.  The booking resources must be extensive, with a wide knowledge of local conditions every place, in order to negotiate only the business that is worth while, to complete consecutive schedules and keep directors continuously busy.  Otherwise poor returns would dissatisfy the local sponsors, and open time would eat up the profits.



Incorporation
To facilitate and better carry on the business of the Company, it was recently incorporated with a capitalization of $100,000.00—every dollar of which was at once subscribed by its immediate associates and employees.



Equipment
The Company's equipment for amateur productions is valued at about one hundred thousand dollars.  The past Season more than twenty-five thousand dollars was expended for costumes, scenery and equipment in this one Department alone.




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Stenographic Department—Main Offices


Promoting and staging amateur productions also keep busy the entire year more than one hundred road directors, publicity experts, salesmen and promoters.  A large staff is employed at the Fostoria central offices in the financial, routing, sales, correspondence, equipment and supply departments.  Here thousands of costumes are turned out annually.  More than 10,500 square feet of floor space is required to house the large equipment in addition to a considerable amount at all times on the road.



Foremost Organizations Everywhere Employ Rogers Service
Social and philanthropic societies everywhere now avail themselves of the Rogers service.  Womens and Girls' Clubs, Y. W. C. A., Church and College Societies, High Schools, Hospital Boards, Daughters of the Empire (Canadian) and countless men's organizations count on this plan to replenish their treasuries each year.


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Junior Leagues Have Raised Thousands of Dollars With Rogers Revues
The exclusive Junior League—a national organization of philanthropically inclined society women and girls, with branches in the leading cities, raises thousands of dollars annually for its charities through the presentation of local Revues or novelty entertainments and a majority of the more elaborate ones are staged by John B. Rogers Producing Company.  Omaha, Neb., Memphis, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., Albany, N. Y., Hartford, Conn., Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Joseph, Mo., are but a few of the many branches of the League that have netted large sums in this way.  As much as $5000.00 to $15,000.00 is cleared for the local League in some of these productions.


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An Important Department Minstrelsy
Amateur Minstrels are popular with Elks, Masonic Societies, Kiwanis, Rotary, American Legion, Knights of Columbus, etc., and the Rogers Company has special Minstrel directors, productions and equipment for this service and supplies annually a great number of such productions to the most representative of these men's organizations everywhere.





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Cutting Room—Costume Department

Pageants Are Popular With Civic Societies and Fair Associations
Out Door Pageantry for Civic Organizations or as the leading spectacular features of Fairs in the United States and Canada engages much of the summer activity of the Company and during part of the summer it is unable to supply as many of these productions as the demand for this service has created.  Some of the largest Pageants produced have been managed, staged and costumed by John B. Rogers Producing Company and it is not unusual to employ a cast of from fifteen hundred to three thousand local performers in one event.



Costume Rental Department

Corridor in Costume Department


The Rogers Company does a considerable mail order rental business with costumes and scenery.  There are more than ten thousand costumes to select from.  This department is very complete and terms are most reasonable.





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Rogers Productions Staged Reasonably Because Produced In Such Quantity.  One Reason For Tremendous Growth of Clientele
While many royalty professional attractions with New York reputations may be leased and produced through the Rogers Company, the most of its output is centered in productions and plays which it originates and exclusively controls.  Putting on so many of the same productions in duplicate allows the Company to supply service and equipment, at a price far below what would otherwise be possible and so gives deserving Organizations opportunity to provide splendid local entertainment and make a considerable sum with practically no financial outlay or expense.  This probably more than anything else has contributed to the tremendous growth of the Company,—for the average local society needs money and is as much interested in the financial return as in the quality of the production.  If it can supply a good show and please the public,—and at the same time fill its coffers,—it is likely to be in line for one or more such productions each season.  The Rogers clientele is comprised mostly of Repeaters,—societies which employ its service year after year.  This has come about because the Company has time and again proven that because of its carefully worked out methods it is possible to stage a superior production with less work on part of all concerned locally than would otherwise prevail.  And that not only can the Company receive a reasonable percentage of return for its service, but it will also net more for the local sponsors than they would receive on productions staged through their own resources.  Working largely on a percentage basis and seldom requiring a guarantee, John B. Rogers Producing Company's methods of management must get results—otherwise its business could not have grown to its present proportions.  That the Company has prospered attests the fact that with proper management such a financial arrangement is practicable and eminently satisfactory to the local sponsors.





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HERBERT H. SIEMON New England



GEORGE E. SHAW Eastern



LORENZ ANDERSON Central



PALMER KELLOGG South Central



ANDREW JERPE Southern



GEORGE ZARFAS Canadian



HAROLD S. MILLS Southwestern



MARVIN C. PARK Western


SALES MANAGERS




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Management In Amateur Production Enterprises, Leading Factor of Success.  Specialist Required
Incidentally, with amateur productions nowadays, management is the supreme factor in success.  Public taste, conflicting events, the whirl and rush of modern living conditions and prevailing high expenses all make success or failure, and like other enterprises worth while, the promoting of an amateur production to get the best results, must be in the hands of a specialist.  It stands to reason that a Company staging annually a thousand successful productions can give service and returns for the effort expended locally far in excess of the same enterprise locally or less skillfully promoted.



Our Representatives Possess Ability and Character.  Only Expert Service Rendered
To be associated in any Department of John B. Rogers Producing Co. one must have at the start unquestionable references as to character and previous business conduct—and the applicant must possess personality, talent, ambition and a capacity for hard work.  With such foundation requisites, a thorough training is supplied before entering into active duties—so that any society employing the Rogers Company is absolutely assured the most expert and conscientious service obtainable.


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Dance Studio at the Rogers School

The Rogers School of Stage Arts and Play Directing
A School of Stage Arts and Play Directing is maintained at Fostoria.  Practical instruction is given in play producing as practiced by the Rogers Company—and there are courses available at a reasonable figure in Stage Dancing, Concert and Oratorio singing, Piano, Expression and Orchestra performing and conducting, Stage and Lyceum appearance, Make-up, Costume Designing and in fact all Departments of Stage Training and Play Producing.

One can secure the same training in Fostoria from the Rogers staff of expert instructors as in the best New York dramatic, vocal and stage dancing Schools and at far less cost,—and students making the requisite grade are eligible to directing positions and to positions in professional road attractions.  Rogers students are in demand every place for appearance at Club and Social entertainments.


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Lyceum Department
In addition to its amateur productions, the Rogers Company maintains a Lyceum Department featuring travelling professional road Companies playing either under local auspices or independently—as conditions on the circuits may require.


A Professional Lyceum Group


The Rogers Company secures its advertising in such quantities that substantial deductions are afforded its patrons.  Thousands of packages are sent out from the central supply department.  A number of sewing ladies are employed constantly under the capable direction of Mrs. Forringer and in some months it is no unusual thing to turn out as many as 1,000 complete costumes.  During a single month of the past summer, 4,675 yards of goods were cut from which 1,625 costume pieces were completed.  In one month as many as 40 complete equipments including costumes, scenery and properties have been assembled and sent out.


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Chris. F. Thomas



W. H. McGreevy



James F. Blue



Howard E. Hill



Jack Geller



Carl Arrasmith



Jack W. Briggs



Russ L. Rowland



Hazel Anderson



Larry E. Doyle, Jr.



Lehr M. Knowles



George M. Miles



Mary C. Freeland



Margery Heberling



Mabel E. Bush



Constance Ellis



Louise E. Close



Vivian Taylor


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Musical Comedies
Musical Comedy Productions featured by John B. Rogers Producing Co.—Fleurette, Bimbo, All Aboard, Kathleen, Springtime, Miss Bob White, Going Some, Stepping Along, Oh!  Oh!  Cindy, Katcha-Koo, Princess Bonnie, The Little Tycoon, The Wishing Ring, Fi Fi of the Toy Shop, and many New York Royalty bills.

These may be given with large or smaller casts and as simply or elaborately as desired.



Revues, Pageants, Spectacular Shows and Novelty Productions
Historical, Industrial and Religious Pageants, Pageants of Progress, International Circus, Fete Parisienne, Arabian Nights, Chinese Nights, Bal Masque, Revues, Frolics and Follies for Junior League, American Legion, Elks, Kiwanis, Rotary, Knights of Columbus, and many novelty productions are available.



Minstrels
The Rogers Company specializes in Minstrels.  There are Minstrels designed especially for Elks, Masonic Societies, Legion, Knights of Columbus, and other secret or social orders.  There are specially trained minstrel directors and magnificent equipment for this department.  Hoop-La, Minstrel Mimics, Minstrel Chuckles, Minstrel Revue, Black and White Minstrels, Minstrel Frolics, Minstrel Echoes and many other complete productions are featured.



Small Cast and Plays Without Music
Supplied without Director, for rental charge alone, or with Director for from one to two weeks as may be requested.  The part books may be sent four weeks in advance if so desired.

These plays have been selected especially for College, School and like auspices.  They are clean, fast moving, and supply abundant entertainment without criticism as to lines or situations.  Any play listed may be given by the most fastidious society with perfect propriety.  Some of these productions are standard and some have been played professionally in New York and on the road with tremendous success.  Rates will be quoted on application.





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William F. Baker



Larry Drinard



John T. Hall



John W. Judd



Francis P. Gorman



D'Maurice Lockhart



James P. Rawlings



Grace B. Moody



Lyle M. Wilson



Josef W. Seabold



Howard J. Perkins



Sam E. Weimer



Margaret Hendriks



Weldon B. Wade



Maud M. Elser



Dorabelle Strong



Cyril D. Pearson



Albert Peters


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Leaders in Small Cast Plays
A Scrap of Paper, A Crazy Idea, Aunt Adelina, The Snowball, My Irish Rose, Too Many Crooks, Officer 666, Stop Thief, The Thirteenth Chair, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Pomander Walk, She Stoops to Conquer, The School for Scandal, and others.



Entertainments for Small Communities
Practically no town is too small or conditions of staging or talent facilities too inadequate for a Rogers production.  Do not feel that only elaborate productions for the larger cities are featured.  The Company has musical plays requiring a very small cast and chorus or non-musical plays with few characters and requiring but limited stage room.



Terms
Are low in proportion to quality of service and the fact that Rogers service insures success.  The majority of contracts are made on the basis of the local society supplying talent, and promoting under Rogers expert direction.  The Rogers Company directs, rehearses and stages the production and furnishes equipment gratis, sharing an equal division of expenses and receipts.  Expenses are paid from the gross, the local society handling all moneys taken in and paying the Company its share of one-half net after expenses have been paid.  Certainly a fair arrangement as both the local society and the Company net an equal amount, nor can the Company profit unless the local society receives its share.

For Pageants or elaborate specially built productions, or productions where the nature of the local promoting is such that the sponsoring society will receive a very large sum of money, the Rogers Company works on either a guaranteed basis or limits its share of net to a reasonable amount.



Necessity for Early Reservations of Dates
Those desiring Rogers productions should write for dates in good season.  Patrons are sometimes disappointed by waiting too long to engage reservations.  No matter when it is desired to stage a production, make arrangements as early in the season as possible.  The Company can naturally then give a much better choice as to production and dates, and better service in equipment than will prevail when reservations are left until the last moment.



Canadian Department
The Rogers Company maintains a Canadian branch, with headquarters in Montreal.  Many plays, minstrels, pageants and spectacular productions are staged each year by the Company thruout the Dominion.





From the American Magazine, August, 1924
INTERESTING PEOPLE
He Has Trained Thousands of Amateur Actors

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WHEN John B. Rogersalmostlost his eyesight through a serious accident in 1902 he naturally felt pretty blue.  He had been a law student at Ann Arbor and, as he would be unable to read or study for months, it looked as though his budding career as a lawyer had come to an untimely close.

As things turned out, his accident was a lucky one.  He owes his remarkable career as an amateur play-producer to the period of enforced idleness that followed his misfortune.

To pass the time he helped put on a show with home talent for the benefit of a local charity.  Owing to his hitherto undeveloped ability, it was a remarkable success.  He was asked to take it to a neighboring town.  Then other towns began to ask him to aid them with their shows.  To-day his activities have spread to enormous dimensions.

He has at present an organization of more than a hundred directors, who are kept busy putting on amateur entertainments all over the country.  These directors must be experts in handling emergencies, and there are no emergencies like those of the amateur show.  They must know, for instance, what to do when they find that dressing-rooms, adequate for a dozen, must be used for a hundred and fifty, or when a measles epidemic breaks out and demoralizes half the ranks of the juveniles.  These are experiences that directors working under Mr. Rogers have had.

In addition, Mr. Rogers has, at Fostoria, Ohio, a summer school of dramatic arts and stagecraft, where play-directing and pageantry are taught, and where a bureau is maintained to furnish advice to dramatic clubs.  The costume department of this school turns out more than five thousand costumes each season.

Last year the Rogers Company put on nearly a

John B. Rogers, whose career as a law student was stopped short by an accident to his eyes, is to-day one of the leading amateur theatrical directors in the country.  Nearly a thousand shows were put on last year under the guidance of his organization.  In addition, he maintains, at Fostoria, Ohio, a school of dramatic arts.  The scenes above were from pageants that he has conducted
 thousand amateur shows, which meant that more than a quarter of a million dollars was cleared for the various charities for which they were given.  The plays were witnessed by a million and a quarter spectators, and a hundred and fifty thousand amateurs took part.

One reason why the work has grown so rapidly is Roger's own personality.  He has an enthusiasm that is contagious, spreading through directors to amateurs and committees and audiences.  Although now his work is supposed to be wholly administrative, he finds it impossible to keep out of the production end altogether.  If something is being put on that presents a particularly interesting problem, his desk is abandoned, and he is in the thick of the training.

Why are people willing to work so hard in these plays?  I asked Mr. Rogers.  Is it because they like to show off?

No, he replied; I don't think that is the main reason.  People like to get out of the rut for a little while.  They want a change, and the amateur theatrical performance provides a sort of safety valve for the emotions that all of us have but which we normally do not exhibit in public.

The grocer gets tired, at times, of his prosaic shop, and for a little while, in the play, he ruffles it as a swash-buckler.  Little school ma'ams feel delightfully wicked in the role of a chorus girl for a night or two.

Amateur theatricals must have a genuine appeal for most people, because the movement is spreading.  Schools, women's clubs, Rotary clubs, the American Legion, and civic clubs are some of Rogers's clients.  Clergymen are frequently among the performers.  Two large industrial organizations, the Westinghouse and the Studebaker, have their dramatic clubs, and have used Rogers's service.

In the South you need more time for rehearsals than elsewhere, he remarked.  But when the final performance is given it is likely to have unusual charm.  Southern people seem to be naturally endowed with histrionic ability.  In selecting the cast, social prestige and family sometimes play a very important part.

In New England, too social standing regulates the casting; but it is easier to get the performers out to rehearsals.

The Middle and Far West are the easiest places to put on productions.  The choice of cast is more likely to be based on actual talent than on any social standing, and the amateurs are easier to train.

Towns, curiously, seem to have as distinct personalities as do persons, and it is the business of the director to understand each town and handle it accordingly.

A town is always satisfied with its own talent, and prefers its own production of the same play to that of a neighboring community.

—Evelyn Gill Klahr




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The Rogers School of Stage Arts and Play Directing
THE fall term of The Rogers School of Stage Arts and Play Directing, located at Fostoria, Ohio, opens the third week in September and continues until the middle of December.

Students are trained to direct amateur and professional plays by the Rogers method as exemplified by more than twenty years of successful producing thruout the United States and Canada and the staging by John B. Rogers Producing Company, of about one thousand theatrical productions with amateur talent each year.

Musical comedy, light opera, minstrelsy, dramatic plays and pageantry producing are taught.  Complete training is given in the business management of productions, including stage direction, promoting, publicity and ticket campaigns and all departments which relate to financial returns.  Successful graduates are eligible for positions as directors of the amateur productions staged by John B. Rogers Producing Company.

Students are trained completely for stage appearance in Lyceum, Light Opera, Musical Comedy, Dramatic productions and Vaudeville.  All forms of Dramatic Art are given thorough attention.  Stage dancing is taught, including spectacular and Revue routines, ballet and toe work.  Competent students are placed in the

A Recess Period at the Rogers School






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An out-door class in stage dancing
 professional Road Companies sponsored by John B. Rogers Producing Company or placed professionally with other Producing Bureaus.

Tuition for the complete Fall course is two hundred dollars including registration fee of twenty-five dollars.

Musical comedy, light opera, minstrelsy, dramatic plays and pageantry producing are taught.  Complete training is given in the business management of productions, including stage direction, promoting, publicity and ticket campaigns and all departments which relate to financial returns.  Successful graduates are eligible for positions as directors of the amateur productions staged by John B. Rogers Producing Co.

Courses in Lyceum and Stock Training are arranged for those who desire to specialize in stage appearance These begin the third Mondays in September, October and November and continue for four-week periods.  Tuition, complete course, one hundred dollars the period.  Students are given professional stage training in Expression, Make-up, Stage Dancing and all forms of Dramatic Art.  Opportunities are given capable students for professional appearance and road positions.

The studios are located at 957 North Union Street.  Good board and lodging may be procured at pleasant homes easily accessible to the School at special rates as low as ten to twelve dollars per week.


Group of Summer Students at the Rogers School





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Departments of Instruction

Katherine H. Darfler



Earl C. Darfler



Sara McKenna


Dramatic Department—Under supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Darfler and Miss Sara McKenna of Chicago and associate instructors, graduates of Lyceum Arts Conservatory, Chicago, Chicago School of Expression, and The Emerson School of Boston.  The Emerson and Curry methods are taught.

Dancing—Mlle.  Durbrow of New York City will teach Ballet, Toe, Aesthetic and Ball Room Dancing.  Mlle. Durbrow was formerly soloist of the Chicago Opera Ballet and is a graduate of the Denishawn School of Dancing, pupil of Adolph Bohm, Theodore Kosloff and Lugi Aldeteri of Paris.  Mlle. Durbrow will be assisted by a corps of expert dancing instructors.


Mlle. Durbrow


Classes and private lessons in Stage, Ballet, Aesthetic and Ball Room dancing held both in Fostoria and neighboring cities.


W. H. Wylie


Voice—William Haverfield Wylie, tenor, has studied with Mario Salvini, Mme. Grace Whistler, Carlo Micosia of New York and Arturo Venturi and Enrico Oppi of Italy.  Teaches the real Art of Bel Canto.  Has sung with great success both here and abroad, and is an instructor of experience and ability.  Class and private instruction in voice placement and interpretation.





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Pipe Organ and Piano—Mr. Ward and associate instructors.  Mr. Ward graduated from Otterbein College with an A. B. degree and also from the School of Music in the same place with the degree of Bachelor of Music.  He also studied music six years with C. Max Ecker and dramatic art with Miss Enid Ware Brown of Toledo.  Mr. Ward's courses have consisted of majoring in voice, minor and piano

Merle Ward
 with the added subjects of organ, harmony, counterpoint, theory and history of music, choral and conducting.  He has had a wide experience in teaching in these departments as well as professional directing of amateur productions for the past six years.



SUMMER COURSES
Complete Training in Stage Arts or Play Directing
The regular summer course begins the last Monday in June and continues for four weeks.  Tuition, complete course, one hundred dollars, including registration fee of twenty-five dollars.

The Summer advanced or special course for experienced students begins the last Monday in July and continues for three weeks.  Tuition, seventy-five dollars including registration fee of twenty dollars.  Tuition for the combined regular and advanced summer courses one hundred and fifty dollars.


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Reception Room at the School


References: Y. M. C. A., Rotary and Exchange Clubs, First National Bank, Union National Bank, Federation of Women's Clubs—all of Fostoria.

Enrollments should be made in good season as reservations are limited.  Character references are positively required in all cases.

Address Communications regarding
school to
JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCING COMPANY, Dept. M
Fostoria, Ohio
Phone 336 or 68


One of the Studios






JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCTING CO.

John B. Rogers Producing Co.
Fostoria, Ohio
World's Largest Producers of Amateur Theatricals—Established 1903
More than 1000 Amateur Productions Annually
PAGEANTS PLAYS MINSTRELS MUSICAL COMEDIES REVUES SPECTACULAR SHOWS
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Lyceum Department
Presenting high class professional companies in standard or royalty bills.  Playing under auspices or independently.  Booked by John B. Rogers Producing Co.  Write Department C.



THE ROGERS SCHOOL Stage Arts and Play Directing
Courses in Dramatic Art, Stage Dancing, Singing, Instrumental Music, Expression, Public Speaking, Make-up, Costume Designing, Pageantry and Play Directing.  Students trained as directors or for stage or Lyceum.

Capable students placed professionally.

Terms beginning September, October, November, July, and August.

Write Department M.



Costume Rentals
Schools—Lodges—Societies—Advise us of your needs!  Reasonable terms.  Prompt service.  Can ship any place in the United States or Canada.



Pageants and Spectacular Shows
Historical, Industrial, Fantastic Subjects—Circuses, Home Comings, Community Celebrations—Fair Managers, Societies wishing an unusual open air or indoor attraction or celebration—Write for information.

Address all communications to
John B. Rogers Producing Company
Fostoria, Ohio

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