New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-28
DOLLAR THEATRE SEATS SOON
Mark Twain Has Written Play for Century
Theatre Stock Company.

Managers, actors. playwrights and others inter
ested in the advancement Of the stage and the
drama more than half filled the Manhattan
Theatre last night. and listened to an informal
address by Sydney Rosenfeld. the urgent needs
OF the theatre" Walter S. Logan, president of the
Century Club, presided.
Louis Mann Fay Templeton and Grace Gaylor
Clark occupied boxes. and there were number OF
well known actors in the orchestra chairs. In the
course OF his remarks Mr. Resented said he wished
it understood that the proposed Century Theatre
organization would in way conflict with the Ma
tional Art Theatre Society. for it was all a part
Of the same movement. The present status of
theatres both to the quality of the entertain
ment offered and the exOrbitant prices charged
therefor. he said. had become subjects of general
discussion. and the urgent need Of playhouse de-
voted TO good rational plays performed by capable
actors at prices to suit the times universally
conceded
Il have secured theatre" said he but I can
not mention its name. because have promised the
current attraction not to do We hope TO begin
active work in February. Among the forty So
called first class theatres in NewYork there is not
one devoted TO the stock companies of earlier years
where frequent change of repertory fostered the
art of both author and player. I have already en-
gagged many fine actors. and 1t is my intention TO
return to the stock system of the old Wallack days
and to charge for the largest number of reserved
seats in the house and s. 30 for the choicest ones
utterly and completely emacing the specu-
lator by a system at least as eficacious as
that put into practice by the late Augustin DAILY
My seats will be open to the public the adver-
Used prices with clean, unhypOthecated box office
sheet for every performance, with only such varia-
lions therefrom as the rights of subscribers shall
demand. And as a still further step in this direc-
ton the present pernicious system Of supplying the
hotels with tickets the expense of the box Office
patrons, will te summary abolished. Mark Twain
has written a play, and think we car cool, I'm a
few jokes between US"
At the end of Mr. Rosenfeld's remarks Chairman
Logan invited any one in the audience TO express
their views. Louis Mann said that although he
had just gone through four performances and a
rehearsal he was heartily in sympathy with the
any extended remarks M Logan volnntaerad +h s
m information that Mann studying the Dart of
gested that that was the cause of his being shy"
Barton Hin, the actor, spoke Of the difference
to- day and when Edwin Booth fatbeT end so 0l
iIcSIeady ana others played in this city. Your
will allow the actor do some Of the tbinIinP
i F6,tb p, Wish you godspeed in what YOU do
hoith Ellis Baker. the playwright said:
. Al persons who act or write must be near
National Theatre II the auGenceg eip2 y OF the
6o oI,saeI1 we can write Days name is
GOLDEN age again 1t will be a beautiful Ger
Educate the audiences when you get them. and
them said Mr.; Logan. American audiences viii
money of millionaires if yoa want IL but bette T
with The money of the people Stand for civiza-
non; when you demand that the practical side
Mt Turk after indorsing Mr., RosenfeId's scheme.
and the DAILY days and asked him how he was 20
ms part or ms pay from leaving and going in for
nalQep vi MI Hosenfeld said he ready to
How does the Coincide Francois do ito" he
asked; How old DAILY and others do il? The same
ability for FIVE years shall have ma ~ Zee 90
services TOT 1hose hVe years IS it not SOP"