| Show inn F Why Hackett Booked a J Play flay With f S 2 Frohman Still an on Independent 5 S nl I ii I fl Fl i I II r n fl fl P 1 ri 1 fl fl II 1 10 II fl fl fl 1 II 10 I fl II I n fl ft Pt lC IC writes write from trum JAMES J Philadelphia to the New Ne York Sun There IB la a n great deal of ot talk going about that 1 I nm am to renounce my may In to the Independents am mini to come conic back Into tho the fold of oC time tho theatrical cal trust All II r I have to say pay about this story Itol Is that It Is III manufactured out of or ortho time the whole cloth I was sas never neer 1101 en omi enthusiastic about time the Independents titan than I J am nun at present and munh to tho the brat best of or my 11 knowledge none of ot us has imas lost any of ot our lighting fighting blood The rhe atory story of my amy contemplated backsliding was started hy h I press R agents of or the other side sub when I agreed to put limit my company In lii Time Tho Secret of ot In III Froh minis Garden theater r Mr Ir Is Isa II isa a n er of ot time the syndicate It IB is true trite hut but the tho Garden theater happens to lo bo be WW I entirely under his hIli 0 control conse cause when my company mias n nH thrown II out from time the mind Mr Mm h mis good enough to throw thimi open his doors to me I J was sas only Oil too to the this offer particular particularly ly J I as It was isas not IlOt necessary for tor mo Inc to lo book time tile engagement In imm any 1111 way wn the time trusts runts Looking booking It Willi as ii a 1 1 between Mr Ir timid myself that was nil all I firs nr t became nn a mm Independent I t not 1101 Ii t he lie cause I 1 hind had any p against uny tny manager er butt but O I 1 ie me rented having any numy Inn of or booking agents tell mo mao when hell I should play pili and when I 1 should not That after mill all li in what all the lie Independent managers uro are lighting for tor or I 1 had a n right to avail myself tn of ot Mi Mm II J offer and 1 dill did HO so but IC anyone thinks I J nm going to and ammil go buck back on tho time independent nil Ive got at to say fill Is that limit I they time dont know me lints all |