The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-15
THE EJECTMENTS FROM BOOTHS
THEATRE.
They Were Not In Consequence of Mr..
Booths Sensitiveness to Criticism.

They Were Not i'm Consequence of Mr..
Booths Sensitiveness to Criticism.
The report in the various morning papers yester-
day OF the obtaining OF order from the supreme
Court requiring Mr.. Edwin Bootn TO snow cause
why Paul Nicholson s snd a. H. s9a th
regular admittance fee and behaving themselves,
was so worded as to convey the Impression that the
was in consequence OF certain denunciatory articles
contained in "a paper e respectively ~ ~. % owned
H. Magonigle, the business manager OF Booths
Theatre insists that the refusal to admit these per-
sons was not based upon any criticism of Mr.. Booths
acting or Mr Booths character published by them,
and that the oder which emanatet from him, In
consequence OF which they were refused admission,
was meant to apply to only one OF them, and was
issued as applied to him because Mr.. Magonigle be-
lieved him 10 be an improper person, who should be
and protection towards the ladies and gentlemen
constituting the rest OF the audience.
Mr. Magonigle also detailed yesterday the busi-
ness transactions between himself and Messrs.
Nicholson and CaZauran which had led to the hos
tility OF the latter towards Mr.. Booths establish
ment. He said that soDe time ago Mr.. Nicholson
publishing programme for circulation In the
various theatres, and applied to him for the eXclu-
sive right to circulate such programme Ia Booths
Theatre; that an arrangement to this effect was
entered into, and soon after Mr.. Nicholson asked
Mr. Magonigle for q certificate that his publica-
ton was the only programme authorized to be
circulated in that theatre that the certificate
printed this certificate at the head OF his
columns enough he had said he only wanted 1t to
help hm IN canyasslng ior adyerssementsl' lis, mus
extent responsible for the contents OF the pro-
gramme; that soon after the programme commenced
attacking the managem mt or Nlblos Garden upon
which Mr. Msgongle sent for Messrs. Nicholson and
Cazauran and told them that they must discontinue
such attacks that they promised TO do So but soon
after made personal attack IN the programme upon
MIR. Theodore Moss, OF Wallack's Theatre; that
he again sent for them and warned them
to discontinue their attacks, which they again
promised to do; that they next attacked Mr.. Lester
Wallack. were again warned to desist, and again
promised TO do that after all this they violently
attacked Miss Nilsson, with whom Mr.. Magonigle
was at that very time negotiating an engagement
at Booths Theatre, thus directly interfering with
and nuriDg the business OF that theatre that upon
this Mr. Magongle wrote them a note withdraw
ing the patronage OF Booths Theatre from their pro-
Rramme; that his course in excluding the pro-
qramme from the theatre was folio Cd by every
other manager in the city, thus ca lsing the pro-
gramme to suspend publication; and that then
Messrs Nicholson and Cazauran started a small
weekly paper, and soon after devoted sixteen
columns OF it to an anonymous article purpsrting
TO be a criticism OF Booths "Rcheeu," but filled
with the erossest personal abuse OF Mr.. Booth Mr.
MagonRle said further, that since the termination
OF his business relations with Mr.. Cazauran he had
evidence of his bad character, and upon that ground
and that alone, had issued the Greer to deny hin
admission TO the theatre and that the application
OF tina. order Mr.. Nicholson was tue result OF aimis
apprehension OF The order on the part or the ticket
seller and the doorkeeper.-N. World, today.