Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-26

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week the struggle between the ShuberCs
the newcomers in the held and the veteran
and reliable Keith outfit. has been on in
four cities New York. Baltimore Boston
ana Cleveland, and beginning today the
conflict was extended to Philadelphia,
Dayton, Detroit, Newark, Pittsburgh and
Washington. on subsequent Monday
other groups of rival Shubert houses viii
! be opened
In New York the Shubcrts instituted
/ their entrance into vaudeville at the For
! ty-Fourth street theater, in Manhattan,
and the Shubert- Crescent Theater in
| Brooklyn and this week they expand their
vaudeville venture to the spacious Winter
/ Garden, three blocks from the palatial
/ Palace theater, the home office" and
show-Of stage of the Keith circuit. Ben
( Atwel is pounding out the press STUFF
| for the Shuberts white Walter !. King
J. eys typewriter is rafting for f. f. Al
bee. the genius Of Keith $.
Nothing has happened for years in the
aterdom to equal the magnitude Of ibe
fight just started. There are millions
Of dollars al stake on both sides un,-ss
there is always an unless there is
enough Of The public purse 30 support
"a new vaudeville competitor The Shu
berts have reftted their chain Of vaude
Vile amusement houses. including I'VE In
Canada, for the present only extending
west to Kansas City and south to Louis
Vile and Washington. They have en-
gagged four vaudeville acts MP to date aud
within thirty days will be committed to
q weekly pay roll of $4,000 TO $4,000
exclusive Of musicians, stage hands. u5h-
ers AID other uoa acting ~Upprnumeraries
IF the theater
On the other hand. the e +. Keith
Booking Exchange has 10 the ueighbOr-
hood Of 5000 acts now playing in the
geo vaudeville theaters of the elk th cir
cult and the 100 additional theatcrs Of
the Orpheum circuit west Of Chicago. the
Boil Theater i'm New England AMI the
Miner and Einpond ThcaJers ia the Mid
die States The Keith Circuit works in
CONJUNCTION with The Marcus Loew's l5l
picture houses which use vaudeville ac-
tors. while the William Fox string Of
motion picture houses IS reported to have
cast its lot with the S1uberts.
Obviously. the CHIEF benehcisrie> Of the
entrance Of the ShubertS into vaudeville
are the vaudeville actors and actresses.
some Of whom are receiving fabulous sal
aries. The Shuberts have patterned their
entertainment after the big London mu-
SIC halls such as the Hippodrome. tie
Coliseum and the Palace The theaters
they have Transformed into vaudeville
houses in the main were formerly le-
giumate houses playing road shows,
""l'h SOFA seats AT Top F'I'c 'l co.
The new vaudeville top price is 81.
Naturally. one wonders how the Shu
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f,r,,,,,..s AMI two rnsrjgaas Further.
pacitv al the high gate rate. which could
moi b. lowered while salaries remained
M the wartime level. BY creating al
most over night circuit Of vaudeville
theaters. with acts moving around them
I'm rotation. the Shuberis haNe accom-
pI,hcd a feat that 3i n7>t "'D'H seem
Impossible.
Virginia Rape rta- name vas Jeanne
buckle tragedy d.S-ade ago lived IN
FiTieth street near Eighth Sf"1le "i'H
her mother ami sister. She used 'n auto
mobile when motor cars were rare
FROM nstr9n. For instanes. one day
ny lIrs pierre Du Poat Of Whining
ton Delaware. brough; dfty guests to
New York ia a private ear To se. The