Show HAD TO T PAY TRIBUTE I David Davd cos Experience With the te Alleged Theatrical Com Corn Combination I New ew York Yort April Apri 10 The charge that half a dozen men In this city cl and ad Phil Philadelphia adelphia control every the theatre theatre e atre in the country dictate to managers where their stars shall shan appear or whether they the shall appear at all al and arbitrarily demand and nearly m arl always receive a large percentage of the pro profits profIts fits front from every play pla produced in those theatres has been made mae by witnesses during the progress of ot the trial of the suit of David Belasco the playwright against Klaw Kia Erlanger theatrical agents ag still in pi progress ogress Mr lr purpose in the suit huit is isto ish to tf h reestablish his contention that Klaw Erlanger entered into a secret part partnership partnership with lh him in regard to the star starring starring starring ring of David Warfield in The Auctioneer Auctioneer ue r The secret agreement was made in consideration of Klaw Elaw Er Erlanger hanger langer langeI consenting to book bolt the play at theatres Belasco also told of ot similar experiences which he claimed tn hn I 1 Hh hI T paid he said nr re than O from the tho th profits of oC Zaza in m which Mrs Leslie LesHe Carter appeared Belasco Bela co said in the course of his examination that these cases were only tw two o of many that every manager m nager had had the same sae ex experience experience experience a as himself and was obliged to tomake tomake tomake make similar agreements with the booking agents agen The rhe names of the members of the combination which is alleged to control the theatres of the I United States as given g en by Samuel Nix Nixon Nixon on w when hen he was on the stand Stanl today toda are areAl areAl Al Haymin Charles Frohman Klaw Erlanger of this thi city iy and Nixon Zim Zimmerman Zimmerman merman Pittsburg of Philadelphia Baltimore and antI |