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Show Two Brothers Monopolize Profits In Theatre Program Publishing reived by Pailerraakl'a manager, who ooruplalned furKHualy that while tha audience waited Im patiently Ihe maeter refused ta tart hut recital bevauea of an error In the program. rteoll pnimptly drew from hla pockela Ih proof corrclcd in rdrekl'a hand and aigned br blm. Thla waa ehown lo the planlat wha acknowledged II and without comment begun th concert. con-cert. Afterward Hrotl overheard a woman In th. audience aay aba would give any thing for an auto, graph of the puutlat ami. although the hoy atlll had the proof and would gladly hava taken lit for II. ha wouldn't pari with It. Bcott aleu rembare auch generally forgotten event a. tha Introduct. Ion of electrical effeota an Ih ataga a generation ago with a wonderfully won-derfully Imaginative reconstruction of "Tha Kvolutloa of tho Karth" and an International -eaca con-ferenra con-ferenra brought lo New York by Andrew t'ainrgl mora than :i ycara ago. Aa for lha artlalh- aid of hla hurlnea. rcott niukaa no pre-lenalona pre-lenalona of being muelcal. andunly orcaalunally attrnda a concert. NEW TOI1K A recent rosea n h lno lha history of t'arnegle hall dierlosed that virtually all the concert and recital programs In this city ara publlahed by two brothers. Alfred I. and Hlanley rioott. whoea father founded Ihe hualneea, not only In New Tork. Joil. tlia aona aay. In Ainertra. . Alfred I. Hcott Hr. aaw tha poa. alkiliilea of apcclallilna hack la too '7oa and from hla Initial Ventura Ven-tura developed Ih prant-day theatre program that la paid for liy advertising. Alfred Jr. entered tha business twenty-nin yewr ago hi father a meaaenger. and Msnlcy took It up several year later. In addition to tha monetary prof. Ita. tha younger Alfred alao haa acquired a valuable collection of I Musician autographs and the too st newrly complete collection of musical programa published la '"w York. Tha auiograplie ara mostly on printer' proof which ha look to th artlata for th'.- final approval They wee aigned over a period of IS year with, lha same fountain en, which he also keepa. tt waa .,1 If red, Jr. who developed tha firm's pereonal contrarta. aa a messenger. He hsa ona program entirely wrttun In longhand by l-sdere-askl. In Iho tarty day Ihe artists t-.Teoiially nisde out und corrected Ihel- ona programs. New th mnnagere do it. rnco Hcott waa hastily sum. moned to Carnegie hull lu ba re-r |