guaranteed them ten week’s work. The engagement was not successful and the company tried a circle stock operation but that also failed. A circle stock was a common way of organization for a company to perform in the opera houses. The company had a base town to which it returned after each performance. They located five or six opera houses within a reasonable driving distance of the base. Caroline often compared it to a bicycle wheel. The base town was the hub, and each spoke of the wheel represented one of the nearby towns.
Neil Schaffner, 1925