New-York tribune., 1916-02-06


With all managerial agreements
m.rcifully abrogated, hotel tieket
agents are privileged to charge wna'
they please for theatre seats and are
doing it. The worth Of a play has noun
;rr TO do with it. An extremely bad
melodrama was put on at the New Am
sterdam Theatre last Monday night
Apparently few persons liked 1t. Louis
Cohen. wisest of ticket agents attend
ed che premier and shook his head
Not for him. But on the following day
he Rad occasion 10 reshake it. There
WAS tremendous demand at every
ticket agency for seats for Margaret
Schiller" Money was no object. Or
ders from agencies flowed into the New
Amsterdam box Office. Try TO buy seats
for Margaret Schiller" at the box Of
fcc and see what is offered.
VIII bad plays kill off the geese who
arc laying the golden eggs? Any other
year-yes but not this season. All
that is needed 10 make money Is a box
Office and cast of characters. And
the latter is not really compulsory
In the midst Of the general extrava-
eance and prosperity it is fitting TO
record one instance of falling oil.
During the long run of "Chin-Chin' at
the Globe. one man went seventy-three
times. Every time he went he bought
box 1920 and took party But the
Gabv Deslys show has been at the
Globe six weeks, and the man IN ques-
tion has seen II only twice However
"Stop! Look! Listenl" is doing capac-
ity, and something over, without him.
What's the matter with the road?
theatrical managers have been asking
tho question for q couple Of seasons
and receiving no answer. Comes the
"weekly press bulletin for the most
wonderfui play i'm America" Expert
ence." II has been carrying everything
before il. Fifteen weeks IN Boston, at
$4,000 a week; week in Providence
to The tune of Sl5,3S7: proht 10 date
of 10000 for the managers; royalties
OF $4,000 for George '. Hobart. Be
fore il Quits running 1t is expected 10
bring a clear profit Of half a million.
Having seen Experience" we can DO
10 more than echo the managerial
query, What IS the matter with the
road?
The Tribune Office is in the course
OF being remoulded, and q barrel OF
pooev white mortar was moved in re-
Gently as the advance agent OF pre-
pnredness. "be Office Wag was the
first person 90 spot IT. An! he re-
marked. 81 see they're getting ready
for q keystone comedy.
II is far from surprising to learn
that Maude Adams has abandoned her
repertorv plans and will continue IN
definitely at the Empire w win ~ ne ne
Little Minister We Wohder
II George Y. Hobart has been TO see 1t.
What is there to say for the mana
perial civilization that produces Mar
csret Schiller" moonlight Mary
"The Fear Market" ct al. and denies a
hearing to H. Austin Adams's God
and COMPANY? This play, put on for
two performances at the Gaiety Theatre
by the Stage Society. contains more
drama TO the square inch than the
aforesaid trio put together
The role OF Ruth Honeywill in Jus
tice,' which John Williams and Mad
ison Corey are about TO produce, is
the kind Of part that actresses cry for.
II is the sole female role in a cast OF
eighteenth say nothing of the jury
3l and the court crowd.
Things happen quietly in tho theat-
rical world. IN Cincinnati, a week or
so ago. Mrs. Leslie Carter left the stage
for all time. Mrs Carter is an actress
at least reasonably well known here
and there, yet the publicity attendant
upon her departure has been almost ex-
actly nil.
IL may have been because the play
was by an Englishman, or II may have
been because the audience didn't know
any better. But at the premier of
Margaret Schiller the orchestra
PLAYED "My Country, 'Ts Of Thee"
alias "God Save the King" and the
first-nighters arose en- masse.
From Boston comes a morsel of the
atrical news Edwin Arden, saith the
tip, has written a play. Furthermore,
John Craig has produced II, and II Will
hegin It's fourth week at the Castle
Square Theatre tomorrow. The play
is "The Woman Hunter Arden's name
il not publicly connected with It, but
meddling with the drama ls one Of
later.
Percy Helton. erstwhilc bad boy in
Young America" is now merely a
frst-nighter Percy's error was TO
grow three inches during the plays
New York run.
The game has It's ramifcations
dramihcations. If you Will. All is not
Broadway and season runs. The fol-
lowing AT Liberty ads are from
multitude in the curren' billboard:
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ismsburs keptucsy.
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man. spltlfr. Stage carpenter and UrrrrfaH.
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