The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-12-14
'TJHE Hippodrome management
must have left the box office door

TJHE Hippodrome management
must have left the box Office door
open and allowed some Of the
storm OF the street to sweep in. For
" is stormy inside there these days
Yesterday afternoon the management
received notice that the royalty price
pf2 The Lure" had been raised con.
siderable sum above that quoted when
MT. Heilman ordered the script Of the
play. The manager had Sanger 4
Jordon, his New York play brokers.
on the long distance telephone twice
yesterday. The first time to argue
the price and learn that the Shu.
berts, who own the piece, had arbl.
trarily raised the ANTE" and would
forbid the production unless the ad,
yanced price was paid. The second
time we were in the box office and
oyerheard what was being said at this
end and imagined what was being
shot into the mouthpieCe at the other.
4 Show people, or managers. anyway
have yernacular unlike Anything !
ever heard elsewhere. There was
> tempest of violent protest against be
ing held up" and so on, which finally
ended in Heilman dcfying Shuberts,
play broker. playwright and every.
thing nameable, even like the big man
of mythology who deiied the light
ming. 1t costs $3.50 for little talk to
New York from here, ana for the first
lime to our recollection did we fully
appreciate what the fellow meant who
Baid talks cheap" This end of tJt
wire certainly got its moneys worth.
What was said was plenty But THE
Lure" will be played, says Heilman.
More rough work-sOmeOne wrote
q polite note to the Hipp Orchestra"
and pleaded for humanity sake" to
cut Pretty Baby" and The Heart
sof Maryland" from the repertoire. The
Orchestra" got angry, then raved and
finally went ION strike" So appar.
4 emily, or unless the compulsory arbi.
tration law can be invoked there will
$bea new presiding genius at the IIipp
( piano soon.
Pretty rough shedding, all this for
an unobtrusive fellow like Dave Then, |
Z too, there's that threat of Charlie
sRobb's still hanging in allegiance.
Last night wound up the run of THE
Girl From Out Yonder" at the Hippo
Fdrome and tonight the Players will !
gbe seen in sensational presentation |
of Capital vs.. Labor" The piece is
q forceful argument in favor of clos
ing the breech that yet exists between
the wage Garner and the capital that |
pays for his hire. 1t is not a propa.
ganda play, but merely n true por
trayal Of every day occurrences in the !
life of those engaged in the worlds |
work-labor
Lloyd V. Hamilton, Ham," the big |
fellow of the Ham and Bud" pair, |
who Is at the Nelson today along with |
ethel Teare, Henry Murdoch and Bud |
Z duncan, threatens to have a picture |
taken some day without that big mus.
stache and let us all see what he really
looks like. Yes and put on some whole |
clothes-some that fit.
Douglas Fairbanks is at the Dixie |
today in Manhattan Madness. !
Doug" is the Billy Sunday OF the NOV |
ie world when it comes TO drawing !
crowds. The picture showing today /.
i was made in New York and Fairbanks /
spent some time in the metropolis but (
the gay white way and other allure. {
5ments held very little fascination for
4 him. His trip back to the Pacific
aeoast studio was triumphal journey
worthy of king. On his way ives,
Fairbanks stopped off at Denver, his |
$home town, where he was subjected |
ito every treatment his 1ownsfoks ,
could think of. Two l2.ycar.old lads |
rode IA miles into Denver and hunted |
him out Their particular mission
was to know whether or not. in his |
opinion. he could lick William Far. |
mum. They had bet on. they said |
Fairbanks was somewhat embarrassed |
by the question, the more so because
sasBflln Farnum is a very good friend |
9sef his; but he eventually had to adj I
unit to the boys that he thought he
could. The only fear about this is. |
he says, that they will write and tell |
IEarnum about it, and maybe ask Far |.
NUNS opinion on the same subject
iss The Nelson mas an unusually strong
stbill today. The headlner is a Knick. /.
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