New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
WOOLLCOTT, EATON, POLLOCK AND
WOLF AMONG VICTIMS.
Interesting Instances of Advertising Bludseon Held
Over Heads of Editors in New York, Chicago and
BoSton-How the Bludgeon Has Been Found
To Be Boomerang.
Bv SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS.

SU y y on a average of from $500 to 500
the & v this %n" a V by Lee ' sSub
lines the quoted above be read the very
huc brothers Lee and Jake that newspaper opinion for sale
press america cities where they control theatres and bGsow ade
Using The theory may be paraphrased as follows we pay m
dramatic and columns bound to publish Sny wpat WE &
represent received in advertising but paid Tor the pa
S %ns pab5ed fo the benefit and information public There
YOU have the Shubertan dogma To what level Of
n reduces the a's@gng sts sufficiently a
Of and for
exed from oil Shube theatres for the crime OF %s
handing its dramatic columns the Lee
and as 1f It: determinSon Se all the privilege
controversy a special interest. -
ia X . Mr. ws3 a sgs SUSPECT S d Of
% np That he did not 9 Svfr deaG1G r R
advertisers IT'S Paying Gn an 1yas % ' { Taking Chances
which opened the Thynnh Street Theatre last March The critics
production could hardly attributed malice prejudice and hatred
h ape % "a 80 80 f rce vas that II was mot vastly amusing"
since the worst aa o. e mas e second act was vulgar and
mat me Po was 9e m srsI was "a bed room farce" This as
persn upon deacy however the sensitive souls Of Lee and
notices Of the critics lacking humor may try make
believe that somewhere there something n niue ot oh the e
in t bev nToceeded to get after Sr Woocot Shubert repre-
with the prOviso that they were not to be presented by Mr.
Had they raked the New York newspaper the
Shub could hardly have found less promising SUBJECT Ior
Of the Times Mr. Van Anda holds creed that
wassed no time on expnaons to Lee and Japosby thought
they with diagram He just sent back the
Runors flew along Broadway day offended
Shuberts subers going get even with the Times
by their advertising If that their
Intent R sScd aaS n @ eGs a ae Mr.
presented the Shuberts With by ordering every
1f % seC9S5 e & enter Sbubet theatres on purchased %
Decision in this suit sui pending IN e court as pa99
nhed in his that Concerning the art and
comment upon Sui which he exmfng the bias which
4 submit that criticism Further discussion Of this
bubble what its DEFICIENCIES are and not disgust public concerning
play BY simply saying a{ discussion Gt W ao1oy poe write
review a of "suzi in addition quoted above
sul is just hopeless musical comedy, stupid and
that e R9 or gbbsg D. agT ae @st of the not '% a
PLAYS Deficiencies are in unmEabe Shuber
Daisy produced at the shuber theatre as po6f book or any the
other things gu0e So a They b are not S 0 rs theme &
They the of auated completely by malice
Anosr citation wo2leo had
production theme what @ Possibly the costuming
Of the excerpt malice prejudice and hatred charge This
persecution, the alens this conviction that
belief Of the reviewer but from some mean unworthy and mysterious
isfng against Lee and JAKE I erI D iDnsT lee
@q anna TneIF ne tb T ar npe5ativ hereafter Mr. Woc
or against his brother Jacob sbu6 or against Theatr
cal Company Sam Lee Shuber Incorporated against
probably all of them"0r might indefinitely against the
simply that he hardly knows Lee Jake
feeling But
Suberts positive about this unho prejudice against them
The employment the
uniformly
productions by the defendants and each Of them"
uniformly In their advertising the Shuberts
highly the Times which they
Wocott less than five Of their productions besides
quoting without using his
Therefore. either the Shub have CARRIED what Mr. Wooco said
they could not have read their advertisements previous that d
There third alternative but do
perjury which of usually
And
the Shubs evidence of unfair and preuda writing
written by him. but by other
graceful hiding behind skirts actresses when
for excluding the Times
Terry wouldn't the Tby" known that
terribly
his criticism Of her former play This Lee Shubert
Miss Terry What this attack? Well
portions Of which Shubert ingenuity
THE fell
is mott richly endowed with the comic
mechanical In her
theory that this constitutes
actress what Cic find the
eP Murder And sagefolk frightened
ing and stricken the such mild little of
of is imminent the drama
Mr. still excluded from the Shubert theatres and Shut