Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-10-17 | Page 11 | Seat Prices Are Slashed by New York Theatre

SEAT PRICES ARE ARf SlASHED BY BYNE NEW NE YORK THEATRE Special to Tho The Telegram m. m NEW EW YORK Oct 17 Probably Probably one of the leading events c In Broadway Broad theatricals theatricals theatricals the the- of the entire season occurred last lut night when hen John Mason Iason and a company compan of well known actors opened at the big New York theatre In Big Dig Jim Garrity This is a wr very largo large production bothIn both In scenic C equipment and In the tile umber number of or adorn actors engaged oo in the presentation But what caused the tho most moat interest to was as the tho fact that it marked tho the beginning of the dollar top price for Broadway Manager Al At Woods says ft that 51 1 1 Is o enough In tn theeo thero piping times of war ar etc eta Ho lIe announces that he may build a t abig abig big theatre farther uptown and give al all shows at 1 for the best b st seats Woods pays says the tho policy adopted some time time- ago of building small theatres and fixing high prices for scats seats has proven a failure Ho no S says lS that what Is wanted wante-d now Is II Ismore ismore more capacity and cheaper seat Judging from the manner In which the tho public is flocking to see John Mason and the dollar show It seems that Woods knew what he a was doln doing Along Alon with this innovation come the news that Klaw R Erlanger ma may take takeover takeover over oyer the tho huge Strand theatre at Broadway Broad Broad- way and sixth Forty street and give big s at nt 51 1 1 This house scats seats over O and now is devoted de to moving pictures I