The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-17
CONRIED LICENSE MISSING.
POLICE DISCOVER AT LAST THAT
SOME ONE BLUNDERED.

$500 Fee Paid for Irving Place Theatre
Last May, but Document Was Never
Issued-SummonS Out for Manage
Threat To ClUSe House After Hearing.
Magistrate Walsh, sitting in the Yorkyille
police court, issued n summons yesterday
FOR Heinrich Conried, director of the Metro
politan Opera House, to answer the charge
chat he is running the Irving Place Theatre
without a license. The ummon was issued
to Acting Inspector Hodgins, and 1t is re-
turnable at 0 O'Clock this morning.
Commissioner Bingham said yesterday
that he personally discovered n few days
ago that Conried had no license for the
theatre, although he had Paid the fee OF
$500 required by law on May 1 last. The
discovery was a result of the abolition OF
the Auditors office and the turning OF the
books of the department over to the
Bookkeeping Department.. 1t was ascer-
tanned that the money had been sent
to headquarters by a boy and that, although
he took away a receipt for the payment, he
neglected to call for the license. II is said
that the licence was not issued because the
Building Department never sent a report TO
the Police Commissioner on the condition
Of the theatre. The Commissioner, before
discovering that the money had been
paid, put the matter in the hands OF the
acting inspector, who went to the theatre
and asked to see the license.
aIcant show it to you now, said the man
In the box office. its in the safe, and Herr
Conried has the key
When Mr.. Conried was interviewed by
the inspector he couldn't think for the life
of him where that license was. he had
searched, but could not find 1t. 1t was all
right, though, he assuredt the police official.
"Why all this fuss about a little matter
Hike that?" asked the director with some
show Of impatience. Il paid $500 for the
license. and il was IN real money, too
FL can't help that" replied the inspector
Il will nave to see the license"
Herr Conried promised to look egaln,
and a search of all the documents connected
with the business of the theatre was made
No license turned up, Inc dlreetor con.
tinued to think that he had mislaid it, as the
receipt for the payment ofthe tee was among
the papers he looked over. The Inspector
called again and when the license, was not
produced he went to the court ana got uhe
summons.
Opera House, went to Police Headquarters
yesterday and tried to ~straighten the mat
ter out. He was unsuccessful In MS mission.
II is said that the license was not issued 10
him because the building Bureau report
has not vet been obtained. This was not
explained to him, il IL said.
Commissioners Bingham said yesterday
afternoon that the play could go on at the
theatre in the evening, but that after the
court proceedings if Herr Conried did not
show a license the place would be closed.
The penalty for running a theatre without
q license is a fine of from 500 TO $500 OF a
term of from three months to a ear in the
penitentiary, or both. Thu receipt which
Mr.. Conried holds has printed on it, the
notice say, in large red letters a warning
that 1t is not a license and must not be in
terpreted as one, but is merely a voucher
for money on deposit.