The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-01
THEATERS Join
. IN GREAT drive
FOR BOND SALE
National Theatrical Organization
Perfected For the Fourth Liberty
Loan Drive.

Loan Drive.
At the call of Chairman Il. f. Albee
of the National Theatrical Allied In
terests Committee of the Liberty Loan
leaders of the various branches of the
amusement world and representatives
of theatrical clubs met in his office
in the Palace Theater building to or
ganize for the fourth bond drive which
started Saturday, September 28th
with the purpose of exceeding the six
ty-five million in sales by the theaters
of the United States in the last Lib
erty Loan campaign. There were pres
ent Marc Klaw, Henry w. Savage,
Sam H. Harris, George NJ. Cohan, A.
Paul Keith, David Belasco, James X.
Hackett, Reed A. Albee, Charles Burn
ham, Edgar Selwyn, Maurice Good
man, Martin Beck, William Fox, Mar
Gus Loew, B. S. Moss, and H. G. Lau-
der, Jr., representing the legitimate
and vaudeville theaters; Sam Scrib-
ner, r. X. Hynicka and j. Herbert
Mack, representing burlesque; Adolph
Iukor, William A. Brady, Joseph NJ.
Schenck, J. 7. Brulatour, and Peter
Schaefer representing motion pic
lures; Edwin Arden, the Lambs Club;
Edwards Davis, the ,Greenroom Club;
Ralph Trier, the Friars; Rachel
Crothers, the Stays Womens War Re.
lief; Jacques Weinberger and f. T.
Armstrong represented the Liberty
Loan Committee and Governor Benja-
min Strong of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York.
In calling the meeting to order
Chairman Albee spoke in high praise
of the way the theater men had work
ed together in the last drive and ex-
pressed the belief that the coming
drive would see the entire profession
unit in the tremendous three weeks
campaign and that profiting by the
experience of the last spring drive
the resultsh from the theatres would
exceed the enormous total of the third
loan, whivh reached $33 ,633, $50 in
New York alone. The managers were
all in enthusiastic accord with Mr.
Albee and upon the motion of Marc
Klaw it was voted to continue the or
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out the next and that Chairman Albee
be empowered to re-appOint the COM
mittees which did such wonderful
work last spring. The unanimous
/ opinion was that the conduct of the
third drive should be the pattern for
the fourth. The third drive put the
| theater definitely into the ranks of big
( business the sales being third upon
! the lista of giant industries and the
/ showmen gathered in Mr.. Albees Of
! flee pledged themselves to leave moth
| ing undone to make the fourth Liberty
Loan gigantic success in the New
/ York theaters and throughout the
nation wherever their interests en-
tend.
The headquarters of the Theatrical
Allied Interests Committee will be in
the Longacre Building, at Broadway
and 42nd street. There will be a
speakers and entertainment bureau
literary and press department with
full supplies of printed matter and
posters, expert financial and banking
bureau, offices of the Stage Woman's
War Relief and department for sup
plying bond statesmen and saleswomer
wherever needed.
Please remember to send in the
amount of your bond sales in YOU
theater to the above headquarters, nc
matter under what auspices, whether
you do it yourself, or it is done by 6
local organization. This is to keep 6
record of all sales directly pu
through the theatical interests, and a
the end of the drive, every theatre
throughout the United States will bt
given the credit for its sales in thu
newspapers throughout the Union, al
well as will the aggregate amount O
all the theatres which should tota
well over one hundred and fifty mil
lions.