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Show PERCY 6. WILLIAMS SELLS HIS THEATERS By International Nawa Service. NXTW YORK. April 38. It uaa officially offi-cially announced today Keith I had purchased the. Percy G Williams cir- i cult of vaudeville, theater In Nw York ' and the dnl had hnnu ronipleled where-Iw where-Iw pt a.-i IcaJly oil the vaudeville lntr-efitp lntr-efitp In the country had been consolldai ed Tli'.- was nircoiunllfhed afi lh rej'ult of n deal with Hess l S Idyerfield and Beck of the Orpheum circuit; Mesara. C, EL Eohl I'hlcngo anil Majt Anderson of New fork, While the fiK'nea paid to Mr. Wi liamo for the control of Ids houses ts not etat-ed. etat-ed. Il Is rumored thin the uinonnt wan between $,otif,00' ana l,0O0,0tW. Throusrli tho purchase of the Williams Circuit and tii combination irmule with the other interests. Mr. Keith and his associates. K. P Albee, A. laul Keith and John A. Burdock are In control of the hlgTi-elass vaudeville bouses as far west as Chicago. Messrs. Kohl. Max Anderson and the Monroe Amusement company will control In tThlcago, west of Chicago Morrle Meyer Jr . and Martin Mar-tin Beott will have charge with tho Orpheum circuit. This link of the wetern middle wost and eastern Interests In one great combination com-bination claxlfles the vaudeville situation, situa-tion, according to the persons Interest Inter-est ed. V'T innnv weeka there have been rum-ra rum-ra llial Mv. Williams was golnp r sell his theatota In NW forli These are the Colonial, the Alhanihra and the T?ionx and five theaters in Brooklyn It w oniv recently, however, thai Mt Keiths name was associated with the rumors as to the possible purchaser. |