The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-04-12
THEATERSIN
Big COMBINE
Belasco's SUR Reveals a Great
Syndicate
INCLUDES THIRTY HOUSES
Competition Is Barred and Profits
Are Pooled BY Trust
Managers

NEW NuHE tNm O.. nulus iho
uai hrrc of ihr sn.i of David iieIasoo.
ue theatrical manaa.r asaInsi lo.ch
Brook, m connection With fhe rrlinr
Uon ~ ruir AnOi OuIcI nni .utoi,| ns
ihr rlnira. of ihr principal iheaire Uf
u.r omuiy hy syndicate. ro called.
o. irAt uf ilr syndicate agreement
uas offered Iu evidence o. Reading
uHs onr OF ihD striking features ~ O.
ifInl rrri,ic with interesting incidents
ih' parties iD fhe agreement. which
i,aumo effective Aug go. iisii. aud
runs fnr use years. ATE shown a. be Al
liaimlu. Charlie, frohmnn. Mare
NlHw nud A. l.. Er'nnsrr as parties of
ihr ar-i part and samuel o NIrdlngrr
and J Fred Zimmerman. trading ns
Nixon a Zimmerman. parties uf thr
Second part 1he preamble io ihe ngrec.
mrnf rDr'irs ilaf theatrical Interests boz
Al ilr large cities bad suffered n- o.
suIf uf the |ud.serlmIulf" booking of
attractions. ur-rssIfuf.ug SOME ngrer
mrlf between fho interests whereby
lug Jumps" would he avoided and
tour. 30 arranged that there would boz
Boo rounict OF similar attractions no the
..mr Getty.
Ilr list Of theHters announced as un.
der control of ihe parile, 90 the agree
mrni aud which was t0 be supplement.
cd by amy theaters subsequently pa.s.
ing under control ~ any OF the parties
ls -ei out a. follows.
kuickerbockcr thcaicr. New York.
Hoil.. thcatcr. Colonial ihcsier aud
Boston museum. Boston. Providence
opera House. Providence. Chestnut
Street ihcatcr Chestnut Street Opera
House. Broad Street theater. Walnut
Street theater aud Peoples theater.
Philadelphia. Academy Of Music and
ford's Opera House. Baltimore; Ma
iional theater and Columbia theater.
Washington: Alvin theater. Pittsburg:
Euclid Avenue Opera House. Cleve-
land. Grand Opera House. Cincinnati:
Macauley's theater. Louisville: Olym-
pic theater and Century theater. St
Louis: Powers theater and Illinois the
alter. Chicago: Grand Southern theater.
Columbus; Victoria theater, Dayton;
Valentine theater Toledo: English Op.
era House. Indianapolis Star theater.
Buffalo; Princess theater. Toronto.
Boyds theater. Omaha Broadway the
alter and Tabor Grand Opera House,
Denver; Columbia theater. San Fran
cisco; Tulane theater, New Orleans.
"All OF which" the agreement con.
tinues. shall bee booked with attrac-
tons in conjunction with each other
that is 10 say. no attractions shall Doe
booked in any OF the said theaters or
places of amusement Tor in any which
may be hereafter acquired as afore-
said which Will insist in playing an
opposition theater or place OF amuse-
ment in any Of the cities above named
tor any which may hereafter come I'M
der this agreement unless the party
hereto having the theater or place of
amusement in said competition point
shall give his or their consent in writ
ing to permit said attraction to play
in the opposition theater or place of
amusement"
An agreement to pool all profits is
set out in the fourth clause of the in
strument, and of the net profits il is
stipulated Messrs Hayman, Frohman.
Kaw q Erlanger shall receive 70 per
cent and the firm Of Nixon x thinner
man 20 per cent from all the theaters
enumerated Nixon X Zimmerman in
return are to turn over from 80 1-3
TO 30 per cent of the net profits of the
theaters owned by them in Pittsburg
Philadelphia and Baltimore. Klaw &
Erlanger are given control of all book
ings, while Nixon & Zimmerman are
designated as the holding representa-
tives.