Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1922 — Page 3

JUNE 13, 1922.

Highways and By-Ways of Lil’ OP New York By RAYMOND CARROLL ■ (Copyright, 1922, by Futile Ledytr Company.) 1 - 1

NEW YORK. June IS.—'‘‘Due* if nr- ‘ • run a business by the golden rule:’* That qn.-stii.n u.;>, • . <>f th.- I’ala- e Theater sanctum sanctorium of E. F. Albov, head of the B. F. Keith • in it f theaters, and the dominating influence of the It. F. Ki iili V. !'\< i-mire, m'.iV lyii-g rn-fs to about S>W more such thent* r<: a business employing 20,600 artists and providing a daily aggregate audiluent. Mr. Albee. ruddy-cheeked, smiling, and liis desk piled with correspondence, was trying hard on a hot day to keep cool in a white si'.k coat and waistcoat and pepper and salt trousers. He turned quickly in bis chair and met the question with another: “How can you run it by anything else and have business V’ When I had entered an eideriy man was draping pieces of rich damask over chairs ter Mr. A1 bee's inspection. The vaudeville king had been lifting his voice until he was quite hoarse. “Danziger's been with me twenty-eight years and he is as deaf as a post: we were selecting the draperies and materials for the orchestrtf seats in the new I 'ay ten Thater. said Mr. Ali.cc, in his low natural voice, explaining t’ proceedings. Again raising his voice he shouted: •We will take th at darkest red-it Is richer and finer. Now fit me see the materials for . ir new .Seventeenth street and Euclid avenue theater in Cleveland, Ohio. Asa pie-e of beautiful damask of evrl.se and . xldeo-l 'dors for draperies was shown In contrast against plush material ;• r the s* :.?s Mr. Albee explained: • Thes w.-re made to my special order, for Cleveland. Ea -U Keith house has in--r’-r ..el. ■ 'duality, and no two are alike.” To illustrate this point he had Panziger arrange • ,r the backs of other chairs, s u e . , f the drap.-ri- s used in the theaters that had been more or less recently opened. Cue bla-k and silver damask on the walls of the Syracuse theater; the r—i gold tapestry and gray gold draperies j of the Ford riant Theater and the California g< M i! and Italian prelate red of the Providence ho :s-. Everything decorative th .t _ ,••. into a Keith •.heater, he said, was examined and decided Upon under ele tr. in his , rivate office for a I theater in never sees daylight. I dot not have to guess that in circling his glam e to the five chairs. Mr. Albee ! was looki! g straight into tire palatial theaters visualizing into their physical proportions under- the g:.ss of his imaginative powers : thr-e of them already tipooed and two sie-ut to be opened. ‘ln dollars what do they represent?” I asked. “There is $5 .<••. '•' going Into that one alone, a-tuai money,” he saM. ind;c;t;iig the eh., r v. hieli held the draper: -' f -r the now Cleveland theater. “Th.i. Providence h-- :-e next to it cost .s (UW" 1 arid -a r.-i.-us,. and Ford ham each gwallowr 1 up. SI.PU6O. Payton yonder wi.l r.-t an outlay of nearly $1.200.000 before we open. Mind you 1 l ave not figured in the cost of leasing ; the land. Lump it .- over $10,000,100 and- - wont be far oft the facts.”

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“Are you through with the building of theaters, when the last of these Is opened?” was asked. "We have Just paid $1,000,000 for the site of our new $3,010,000 Orpheum Theater In the heart of downtown Brooklyn,” he replied. "And when It has been built I want to give another Keith Theater to Manhattan, if I live long enough, and I can find the size and style of property I am looking for. This will be In grandeur and perfection the daddy of them ali. Os our present cireiilt of seventy-five theaters, there are thirty in the greater city of New York we are directly interested in.” Mr. Albee was pressed to give the amount of capital his firm had Invested in theater properties, lie recalled that 5T..0C0.000 alone had been paid for the five I’ercy G. Williams theaters in New York then he rapidly ran over the Keith list, finally saying with characteristic directness: "I should Bay that SIOO,000,060 would about cover the lot, and that amount is a considerable sum of money. ” On the material side, the golden rule method had certainly paid In Keith vaudeville, but Mr. Albee views the material side as the least of his gains In the ba'tle of life. His theory is provide either an indivi -al or a public with an "excuse” the are pretty likely to do what you may want them to do if the so doing Is In the line of their desire and offers no affront to their Ideals. "Vaudeville as It Is today was built up by our providing two ‘excuses' each at the psychological moment," he said. "Mr. ICelth had a little museum seating a few people in Boston, with an entrance filled with his amusement samples—animals, human freaks and barkers. He was losing money. We cleaned them all out and installed a Japanese parlor In the entrance. Inside we were giving cut versions of light opera. “Mikado* and th--like. We gave ten shows a day and had two companies relieving each other. The admission was 10 and 20 cents. Raymond Hitchcock, Milton Aborn and the late Charles A. Bigelow were in the comP'.ny. We started in the autumn, and by the opening of the next summer Mr. Keith was $40,000 ahead. The police were

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needed to keep our crowds if line. Our ‘excuse* In this case was t iat. it was ‘opera.’ "About ten years later we were Installed In the old Bijou Theater giving variety shows. Some of our stars were Weber and Fields, Fred Stone and the four Cohens. The stigma of the name of variety associated with the old type of music hails, with its male audiences and drinking, was hurting us. The best people of New England wanted to see our 'new kind or shows.' but they had to be given an ‘excuse’ to come. 'Mr. Keith said to me one day: ‘Ed, I have $125,000, all I've got to spare, and with it you must build anew theater that will catch everybody.’ When I finished the new theater It had cost $070,000. The banks had faith in us. We gave Boston a theater that roused its civic pride by its beauty—a smoking room, a ladies' parlor, works of art hanging in the lobby and dressing rooms with baths on the stage. "The ‘excuse’ we gave the pul He was *to see the theater,’ and they wandered in, ministers arid good people generally. Os course, they remained to see the show, which was clean, and wholesome, and they came again. We had stars Uke Henry E. Dlxey, the late Maurice Barrymore, and the big minstrel men, and we called It all vaudeville. Instead of taking in $4,000 a week, our average at the Bijou, the receipts Jumped to $20,000, a net weekly gain of $16,000.” Mr. Albee drummed his desk with one hand as he tulked, and there were occasional interruptions, assistants who came in with decisions they had made awaiting Ills final O. K. Ills ability to pick the right men, and faith in their judgment, was shown in the nod of approval lie gave in each matter that came up during my three hours at his desk side. "I liked newspaper men. You'd be surprised how many we have ’.a our organization.” lie remarked. "The newspaper business Is very similar to our business, everything on the spot. As house managers they are splendid—let me see, we have Hastings in Cincinnati: Jordan, in l’hiladelphia; I.arson, in Boston, and Royal, in Cleveland, all alert, tactful, goahead young men.” "But how about your back-stage policies?” I asked, having In mind the ornate home of the National Vaudeville Artists in West Forty Sixth s'roet, lure of the entire variety profession, which ow -s its being to Mr Albee. "liar ‘good times' really began when artists and managers stopped making faces at one another," he said "For eighteen years there had been nothing hut strife Then ten vaudevillluns Under my encouragement started a small independent club, and soou had 7,000 mem

burs. Next I called together the managers and got them to accept the principles of the golden rule. They had wanted to do this all the time and only waited for someone to say the word. We have 800 members now in the Vaudeville Managers' Association. "One day I called their attention to the artists being without a suitable borne, how they badly needed a clubhouse ond that I had already put $250,000 into the project. Inside five minutes the managers had subscribed $227,000 additional. The clubhouse cost $600,000." Mr. Albee told how there was no more "kidding the actors"; bow contract form had been cut down to a document of about two hundred words, which even the children In the profession could rend and understand. Today a vaudeville artist, if booked, Is paid whether he or she plays or not. Members of tile National Vaudeville Artists are automatically insured for SI,OOO, which eliminates the possibility of burial In potter’s field, and t! ere are other benefits too numerous to , men ion. Including an arbitration court for all disputes arising In the profession, of which Mr. Albee Is the final court of appeal. ‘Materially, to what extent aro the artists benefited In their earnings?" was asked. “In the beginning salaries of ‘variety artists' averaged as low ns sls weekly," he said. "The highest salary over paid for a ‘vaudeville artist’ was SIO,OOO, which went to Surah Bernhardt, the French actress. No value can bo placed upon any artist except tho merit of t.:e act. and that depends entirely upon its recepiion by the public. There Is, of course, a limit to what can be pail, for our business operates at popular prices. "I like to slate a principle by mini mums, rather than by niaximutns. In tin* big houses there are very few artists on our circuit who receive less than $250 a week Ours is a business where women have equal rights with men ond the women have forged ahead so they nro actually drawing more money than the male artists out of the vaudeville man agers." Not long ago Mr. Albee was persuaded to let his organization celebrate its third of a century anniversary, and the z-phyrs of esteem that came from n l i.mat-- of goodwill extending ail over the I’nitcd States, have filled every Keith house with fragrance. In a drawer of his ib-rk Mr. Albee keeps a large fat envelope in which fastened together is bundle < f original telegrams and letters which are sufficient recompense for the golden ru’-i effort : words if praise and appreciation from! United States Senators and Represent.!- j tires. Governors of K'ates. mayors of ' cities, brother managers, bishops and j

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ministers of every religiouß denomination, for the man who in his business hod shunned salaciousness and developed a new code of ethics in entertainment. Mr. Albee remarked: "After thirty-three years and you receive such communications it’s rather a satisfaction to have tried to follow the straight and narrow, but the better, road In business." I noticed against the wall a painting of a young girl with a kitten In her arms. It was picked up in a Fifth avenue art gallery by Mr. Albe and It will go with paintings by Jacque, Israel, Vibert, Knight, Yon Marcke, Corot, Henner and other famous masters to beautify the new Cleveland bouse, for the vaudeville king holds that beautiful pictures stimulate bautlful thought. He bought the girl with the kitty because be felt the Cleveland children would like to look at It. He is that human. Mr. Albe Is a Maine Yankee, born In j 3857. He lives at Larchmont, N. Y., varying his daily trips to his office be- ■ tween motor boat, motor car and suburban traiu. He drives his own automobile. He is a devout Episcopalian. His exercise Is either golf or horseback riding in Central park. lie has a son and a daughter. His office hours are from 9 o’clock until 7 o’clock. He remarked as I was leaving: ‘‘This is an organization and not a one-man affair. If an Individual Is fortunate enough to hare created an Institution in which all participate when he has accomplished something. If ho does something just for himself, then he falls —ls hound to fail.” Says Husband Is Wedded to Another PARIS, .Tune 13.—Mine. Llouboft Vonsiatsky will sail for America in a fortnight to confront the man she claims us her husband. The pretty Russian girl who asserts that Anastase Vonniaiskv, youthful Polish chemist, recently married to Mrs. Marlon Ream Stephens, heiress, Is actually her legal husband, is anxious to meet her wealthy rival face to face. Whether she will press bigamy charges after confronting Anastase and Ids American wife remains, she said, to bo determined. H1.1.V MATCH MAKERS. LONDON, June 13. Reports flint a British Prince will marry Princess Marie,T..so of Belgium are denounced ns "silly” here. The religion of tho two royal families are different and this alone would prevent any match.

BAPTIST WOMEN OPEN FIRST DAY OF CONVENTION Many Programs Are in View for Members of East Central District. Baptist women from the east central district, of which Indiana, along with West Virginia and Ohio, Is a member, met at the First Baptist Church. Mrs. B. F. McCann, of Dayton, Ohio, district president, presided and made the opening address. Others who participated in the opening were Miss Margaret Day of Indianapolis, first vice president; Mrs. C. 11. Prescott of Cleveland, Ohio, second vice president, and Miss Della Dearborn of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana State Soctely. The morning was given over to a session of the executive boards, after which the executive board of the woman’s Baptist Missionary Society of Indiana entertained the executive boards of east central district fit lunch In the Y. W. C. A. Open discussions were to be held In the afternoon, conducted by Miss Ina K. Burton, organization secretary of the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society. for the White Cross Society, and by Miss Mary Noble of Buffalo, for the | Children’s World Crusade. The afterj noon session was to be closed by an ad- ; dress on "Programs” by Mrs. T. E. | Adams. Tonight the speakers will bo Mrs. Andrew McLelsh of Chicago, president of the Woman's American Baptist For- ■ <dgn Mission Society, who will make the ! chief address, and four returned missionaries from home and foreign fields—Miss Sara E. Noyes, head worker at Katherine House in Indiana Harbor. Indiana; Miss Grace Pennington of Bussetn, Burma, MI'S Liicibi Adams, who works among th.* Italians in Braddoek, Pa., and Dr. Ciara Leach of Kltyang. South China. Tomorrow the Woman’s American Baptist Home nri.l the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Societies will celohrate "Women's Day,' which has been observed annually by the two societies for nearly fifty years. The meetings wlli be held In the First Baptist Church and round table discussions will occupy most of the morning. In the afternoon the continuation cam-

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Sale of Women’s Sample Sport Coats and Capes Tailored of fine all-wool polaite; In the wanted spring shades; g purchased so low that we can afford to sell them at a give away a Hf price Wednesday. Women s SAMPLE SUITS Tailored of French serge, Poriot twill and tweed; *r g m handsomely siik lined. R3 b Priced at only *“

i- mrw—■ct—ctimwiw *jT>k 1 "sale of Men’s I Rompers and Creepers Nainsook Unions In a Great Sale Wednesday fi J I?™*™* romper } J O'* colors. An extra \ /ff i Athletic style, reinforced scams, / nfak^ti-^e ' moM t &JL i elastic wobb insert in back, cut f worT h v offerings V ■"Tf 1 A I V with ample fullness. Cool and fn? Wednesday All 1 ML ft# comfortable. Sizes 33 to 50. \H | sizes ' Porous Weave Unions SHtT Children's Rompers fortabic" 1 kHu 1 union *7 A / H! * h grade workmanship _ * suit for summer. / 1- {fapftgfSl •’Y' J material* characterize *7 £* Greatly underpriced I |/L h * the * e ' pretty suits for sum- i !ner " ear - All sizes. ® V 300 to Choose From Wednesday . s PALM BEACH SUITS , Purchased from Two of America’s Famous Wash Makers at Great Prico Concessions SllitS ‘ Ch SStiitKJ qc sl,4##' \/\ A U *V OOOOALL WORST ID CO M W B \ hi ( 1 r/f\ Look for This Label J| 32 t 0 54 hf ri I\/ jk in Every Suit at V Sizes and Volor 7 is in- ( \ i , lot; all well .jjiglilf T Beaches for business or sport, for theater ma d* of good 7L tf*Tij a =g‘ T§ / or dancing. Right colors and right styles, and materials; sizes / tailoring that makes ’em worthy for every wear 2to 8 > I —and underpriced. While they last. j Boys* Genuine #1 $5.00 Men's Genuine Palm Beach Pants ft A Palm Beach (n AP $f / n k Trousers M.3D S’SSSS&’SI 1.0“ r~\ j n a jj desirable shades for sum- summer, mer. A remarkable value.

palgn plans for next year will be discussed and a full report of tho past year's campaign given by the various district leaders. Missionaries, fresh from the field, are to bring messages to the women who support their work. Miss Luella Adams, a home mission worker in Rankin, Pa., among the Italians, Is especially happy because In the continuation campaign her station managed to support the whole new world movement of Northern Baptists for one second of time—quite an expensive second when one realizes the many activities which Baptists are backing. At 0 o'clock there Is to be a World Wldo Guild and a Children’s World Crusrdo banquet at the Splnk-Arms Hotel. An evening program, to which Is Invited

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Sale of Stout Women's Blue Serge Coats Designed especially for the &MQ stately woman of fine quality ga blue serge. Choose from sev- Ki ® eral styles Wednesday at a "'■/ money saving price. Sizes a! raj M 42Va to 56Vi. $35 Stout TWEED SUITS In the new lon® line; tai- a—lored and other good models. t$S | Richly siilc lined. Sizes 401a 1 # to 56Vs>. A

all who aro interested, will be held at the First Baptist Church following the banquet. Eight girls from Springfield, Ohio, are to give a play entitled “Two Masters” In tho Interests of the guild, while a group of Indianapolis Crusaders will present a pageant iu costume, “Under Many Flags.” Workers Keep Each Other From Sleep EVANSVILLE, Ind., Juno 13.—Men work In pairs at the gas plant here to keep each other awake, accordig to William Zengler, superintendent. Like a man smoking an opium pipe, he said, the victim of the fumes ha* an overwhelming desire for sleep.

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