Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-24
S. APIECE OFFERED
FOR TICKETS FOR
THE COLLEGE HERO
Advertiser Would Pay That for
Five Seats Together for
Tonight.


COOLIDGE HERO" tickets wanted. Win
pay So each for tive good seats together
Tor "The College Hero" tonight Address
\ y. T.. care Star office.
shades of the worlds championship
baseball series! THE College Hero
at the Shubert Theatre this week, has
got the biggest sporting event Of the
year backed off the board when 1t
comes to a demand for tickets.
The advertisement that starts this
story appeared in This Mornings Star.
and UP to noon X. Y. u. had received
no response from any person that had
five tickets for sale. At the Shubert
Theatre box office there Is not q single
seat left for tonights performance, 50
e looks as If X. Y 2. was up against
A. tough proposition.
+, Probably X. Y Z. was ike lot OF
'onther persons, and did not imagine
that 1.-THE College Hero" was going
10 prove the great big success that It
has and delayed getting tickets until
Il was too late. At every perform
ance since Tuesday night the house
has been completely sold out, and
seats have been at premium since
"wednesday.
This means that somewhere in the
neighborhc,od of $500 profit will be
aetted for the Babies Hospital, under
whose auspices the big spectacle
evolved by Wade Davis has been pro
duced. The receipts from the regular
ticket sales for the eight perform
ances this week will amount TO $4,000.
IA addition TO this, a goodly sum has
been added by the sale Of souvenir
programs by the patronesses in the
lobby of the theatre.
still another addition to the total
amount comes from the tickets sold
by subscription in advance of the
opening performance, These tickets
were sold at 50 each, an advance of
fifty cents over the price charged later
for orchestra seats bought at the the
atre box office. Returns from all these
tickets have not yet been received at
the business office # THE College |
Here" SO that the exact amount Of
receipts is not available 1t is esti- |
mated that it will be in the neighbor- !
hood OF $1,000.
- The expenses Of the production from /
start 10 finish are as yet somewhat
prob Ieraatical and will not be definite /
~ known until early next week, when
Ell the bills have been received and
audited Wade Davis, the husthng
promoter of 1.-The College Hero" re-
ceives, II is understood, $4,000 for his
Services. 1'he rental of the Shubert
rheatre and musicians hire cost
ManeD here around $1,000. while the
Incidental eX penses, lighting effects,
hiring Of halls for re-
music at rehearsals, Will
take, 1t Isl believed, between $1,000 and
p, BOO laore. making the total expenhes
close the 81, GOV mark.
Addcu zest was given to the per-
formauce last night by the exclusive
In yesterdays Evening
star that DR.. George Dreher and Miss !!
Marjorie Mott, two of the principals
In the brilliant extr aVaganza, had an
bounced their enga cement the Gull
ninatiou of their romance coming
turing the rehearsals Of 1.-THE College
Hero
The fellow performers Of Miss Mott
and DR.. Dreher gave them hearty con-
last night and also had a
lot of fun by quickly guying them both
on the stage and in the wings during
the performance.