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...Jake Shubert descended on Manhattan to lease the Herald Square Theater. They had come down from Syracuse to fight the Klaw & Erlanger syndicate's dominance of the U.S. stage. Broadway, chafing at the syndicate's ironfisted control of 1,250 theaters, whooped the young rebels on. But when, after some 20 years of skirmishes and pitched battle, Jake & Lee* won their war, many producers began to wonder if they had not swapped one tyranny for another. "Instead of Klaw & Erlanger," gagged one, "we've now got tooth & claw...
With their profits, plus $30,000 from a haberdasher friend, they went to New York-and ran up against potent Klaw & Erlanger, whose syndicate then controlled all New York bookings, plus everything of importance on the road. Though the Shuberts did their best to make friends with the press, some New York papers, dependent on K. & E. ads, panned the brothers and their shows. Libeling a Shubert, scoffed one paper, "would be as cruel as unnecessary...
...earned Wallace only $300 in the first seven months. But nine years later, in 1889, 400,000 copies had been sold. In 1913, Sears Roebuck ordered a million copies. Just before the play was produced, Charles Frohman said to Producers Klaw & Erlanger: "Boys, I'm afraid you're up against it-the American public will never stand for Christ and a horse race in the same show." The play ran for 21 years...
Back at the root of Network history is a man named Kenneth Richter, who tried to found a station in December of 1939. After floundering around without funds or University approval for several months, he went to the Crimson, interested President Spencer Klaw '41 in the project, and then vanished mysteriously from recorded history. The daily was interested in fathering the Network chiefly to keep possible advertising and news gathering competition in hand...
Died. Harrison Grey Fiske, 81, veteran theatrical producer; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was the first man to produce Ibsen's plays in the U.S., fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic...