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Show New Orleans and (Jalvcston on the j south. Five companies will he Incorporated, with $5.(mm),00.'i capital each, to ac-ulre ac-ulre or own theaters In every city that i: known to be a good show town. The plans of this theatrical enterprise enter-prise were made at a series of meetings meet-ings which began In New York teu days ago and adjourned to Chicago, where the llnal steps were taken and the Incorporation papers of the middle mid-dle west theater company drawn up. The middle west theater company will be headed by A. 1 Erlanger and among the directors will be Charles Frohman. Al Hayman, Henry B liar rls. Mare Klaw. Henry W. Savage, Wm. Harris. David Relasco, Daniel Frohman, fjeoree Cohan, Frederic . j Thompson and Geo. W. Lederer. I WILL LEASE THEATERS Klaw & Erlanger Make New Move in Theatrical Theat-rical Fight ' Chicago, May 26! To end tho "open door" warfare which' haa been declared declar-ed hy scores of theaters In small cities cit-ies throuRhoui the United States; the Klaw ft Krlangor-Frohmai syndicate hereafter will own theaters or will acquire ac-quire leases of play houses in every strategic city In the couutry. says tho Chicago Tribune In a newa article today. to-day. . - Twenty-five million dollars will bo invested by the syndicate lu theaters which will reach in a chain from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Vancouver Van-couver and Winnipeg on the north to |