The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-06
YHEA7ER SYNDICATE SPLIT.
rELASCO, FISKE AND THE SHU-
HERTS FORM ALLIANCE.
New Combine Guarantees ~ Weeks on the
Road BelascO. Just Home From Lon.
don. Has Thtater There-says klaw Is
vorrluI-New Play for Blanche Bates.

don. Has Thtater There-says kIaw Is
vorrleI-New Play for Blanche Bates.
Wtb the return OF David Belasco play
wriyht and theatrical manage from Lon
don on the Cunard liner Caronia, which
arrived Yesterday. there was great to do
in theatrical circles.
rirst of all came the news that the theat-
,ical syndicate, through Klaw & Erlanger,
hooking agents. had absolutely refused to
iron, with the Shuberts. Mr.. Belasco
announced this and said that both he and
Harrison Grey Fiske would book their pro-
ductons in the Shubert houses through
or the country Mr.. Belasco had talk
with the Shubert management, and also
with Mr.. Fiske who sails to-day for Europe
II was lso announced that District Attor-
nav jerome is inquiring into the Affairs Of
tho theatrical syndicate and the conferences
he had some days ago with Lawyer Sam
nal I'n,ermyer were confined solely to dis :
closures made at the trial OF the suits between
Klaw Eranger and Belasco over the profits
Of The Anctoneer. Mr.. untermyer is
counsel for Belasco. At the hearing Abe
Eraneer said something to Untermyer
about what he would say to him in private,
and untermyer replied: ..
THE next time l face you think, will
be in a criminal trial"
Mr.. Beasco is to meet Untermyer for q
conference this morning. They commune
Gated with each other by telephone yes
terday afternoon.
In statement regarding his trip abroad
Mr. BelasCo said.
i went to London for two reasons. One
was to fay the theatrical syndicate, the
other to secure an outlet over there for my
I hn,,a thAa f4r 10 k,
West End and it will be finished in less than
two years. The people who are backing
me in this enterprise were desirious that /
should come to London and manage the
house permanently. This refused to do,
and intend to remain in America.
Il made few minor contracts VIII lie
abroad, but there wasn't a play p ut
on in London last season that would bring
10 New York. The season both in London
and in Paris has been very bad one, and
] am Of the opinion that most Of the plays
to be brought over here will prove failures.
Charles frohm In, has bought up nearly
sobbed plays, players and play
wrghs, and the Londoners are beginning
to get sore. Frohman seems to be ashamed
Of the syndicate In London, and his friends
Try to make the people there believe that
he uses the syndicate merely as a booking
agency. | proved to the London public
dlcate and shared the profits.
i have exposed the theatrical syndicate
thoroughly in London and have shown
the EngIishmen the danger which threatens
their stage if they, permit the syndicate
to control it, ! showed them that the
American theatrical trust was getting its
hooks in everything over there with a
strong clutch. They hadn't realized it
before. The London newspapers devoted
great deal Of space to interviews with
me, in which warned the English people
that the theatrical syndicate would de-
grade their stage as it has the American
stage
As to my plans here for the next season,
Mrs. Carter will open the Belasco Theater
In Adrea,' and after short run OF that
piece she will continue in a repertoire of
her past successes until November. when
Blanche Bates will be brought out in a
am going to Shelter Island next Monday
to work on this play. No. won't give
the name OF the play or the theme, for l
don't want the trust to whipsaw me again
as they did with The Japanese Nightingale
to offset Miss Bates's success in The Darling
o. the Gods and also as they tried TO queer
Warfed by putting on The Second Fiddle
to detract interest from The Music Master
i would like 1t distinctly understood
that there is not the slightest semblance
Of an anti-syndicate. The Shuberts have
more tneaterS imam ATTRACTIONS, ana MT.
Nske and l are just the opposite. The
Shuberts have thrown open their theaters
to us and we will use them to exploit our
attractions.
Mr.. Belasco also, on arriving yesterday.
sad that he had the syndicate members
BADLY worried, and that Marc Klaw was al
most on the verge Of collapse. Klaw. he
said, had paced the corridors Of his London
hotel and made for home when things
warmed up
Mr.. klaw. when seen yesterday, didn't |
greatly resemble Hackep schmidt. but he
didn't look like man that was likely to |
do very soon. He said it was true that
the Shuberts had been turned down"
and that he was glad Of it.
There has been so much talk" said |
Mr., klaw, about what Belasco, Fiske !
and the Shuberts would do to us that it is |
well for the public. to be given little ex-
hibition Of the doing"
Broadway is all agog. and the coming
season is looked for with great interest. |
During the past week the Shuberts have |
secured eight more theaters, and the firm |
is now prepared to guarantee show
twenty seven weeks time on the road. |
David Warfield will make a round OF these
and other anti-syndicate houses with THE |
Music Master this winter