Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — THEATRICAL MEN QUARREL [ARTICLE]

THEATRICAL MEN QUARREL

Erlanger and Ziegfeld Order Lee Shubert Out of Their House. Atlantic City, June 11. —Excitement was caused in the Apollo theater when Lee Shubert, Lew Fields and Mrs. Fields were ordered from the house. The three were orderd out first, it is said, by Florenz Ziegfeld and then by A. L. Erlanger. Upon their refusal to leave, the house officer was called and a threat to use force made. Finally, after the curtain had been held down for ten minutes, the party left. Ziegfeld explained that the action was in retaliation for the refusal to allow him In a Shubert theater.