The evening world. Newspaper, November 5, 1920, Page 31

Theatre Ticket Hold- Ups Reach the Scandal Point; New Yorkers the “‘Goats’’ Men and Women Who Pay the City’s Taxes the Victims of Bare-Faced Extortion Because Rich “Out-of-Towners” Will Pay. By Sophie Irene Loeb. As set forth in the Evening World, Mhe theatre ticket speculation situa- , ton has practically reached the point of scandal-where it is almost im- Doasible for the average New Yorker] ; fo wee a play at a price that is Marked on the theatre ticket. After my experience in tfying to get @eats from Newman, the well known icket speculator at 1482 Broadway, as told in these columns, I went to the Premier Ticket Shop at 200 West 42d Btreet. There I talked with C. H. Cobn, one of the proprietors, I asked for two seats that wert @arked $4.40 on the ticket. He asked fme $5.50. These were in the 15th row. “Haven't you got them a little low- @r down?" I inquired, "Yes," he answered cheerfully, “1 @an give you the 4th row at $9.90, 1 staggered at this and sugg @nother play, “Tip-Top. “I haven't any seats for that,” he @ald, “but I can get you some. You ‘will have to pay $10.70." ‘ “Each?” 1 questioned, “Yes, each,’ he answered. “And you @ught to be glad to get them,” bi @milingly added, “Where will you get asked, “Ab, that’s a secret,” he said mys- terlously, “If I were to tell you, you would go and get them there your- elf. And then where would I come sar" 1 than went to @ place a few doors Below, a place called the Broadway Theatre Tcket Company, No, 218 ‘West 424 Street, A-woman was buying some seats from the proprietor (the clerk told me he was the proprietor), She was femonstrating with him for having charged her $6.60 for seats marked on the ticket $9.85 each, The woman evidently a steady customer and ha @ent somebody for the seats, VEN OLD PATRONS MUST ALSO “STAND AND DELIVER.” ‘The proprietor was trying to keep “her trade and he spoke something Uke this: “Why $6.60 1s no money for these feats’ my dear Mra, —. I get $7.70 all the time for them, Why a custom- er of mine bought four seats for elec- ton night for this same show and I wharged her 87.70 for them. She re- turned the seats and I resold them. She called up again and said she found she could go to the show and ‘wanted the seats back again. I tried to get some more for her outside, and what do you think I had to pay?— a Ose you've charged mo $5, $6 and 87 for the same seats,” the woman ar- “But I can't thelp that,” answered the proprietor. “Peon who want them will pay for them. ‘While the. argument was going on man came in and bought elght seats yr $7.50 each, the price marked on the ket being $4.49. Oot far from this place I went into @he shop of Louis Cohen, at No. 204 ‘West 424 Strest. A woman was try- fng to buy seats for "Tickle Me.” She wanted six. Ho asked her $6.50 each— jeventh row. Shey. ase <i mo $4.95 each for a phow the ticket of which bears the price $3.85. It was not one of the best eeliers. I could not purchase a seat there for anywhere near the price on cket. ri Royal Theatre Ticket Com- y, No 1568 apie ytih ae naan ticket for any good sho n Srenestra was $5.50 each, These ine cluded the plays “Enter Madame, “The Bad Man” and "The Bat.” But for real chloe seats the price was You couldn't get a seat “Tip-Top" for lesa than} 8.80. wh Tyson & Co.’ ted them?” I No, 1465 Broad- Way, there were some seats I could purchase at 60 cents advance of the a... Price marked on the tickets, but they could not furnish me with any good seats except on certain nights, unless | paid the price of the speculators, I was told here that I would have to y $5, $6 or $7 for the same seat on {ifferent nights, OPEN AVOWAL THAT SPECU- LATORS HAVE ALL BEST SEATS. At the Broadway ‘ivket Otfice, No. 060 Broadway, the prices Were ap- proximately like the others, and when T asked why it was, 1 was informed sas Musi UL Loe UcKeKs were now in the hands of the speculators, “For example,” said the proprietor, “practically 76 per cent. of the tickets for the Globe Theatre are in the bands of the speculators.” At the Equity Theatre Ticket Com- pany, No, 1669 Broadway, 1 found He asked me $3.86 a » Bat.” 1 was so sur- prised I concluded there was some- ning wrong with Uhose seats. J. L. Marks, across the street, how- ever, ui 1692 Broadway, made up for it, He asked me $6.60 for the same way, “The Bat," and for “Tip-Top” ae wanted $7.70, The New York Theatre Ticket Li- brary, at No. 212 West 42d Street, was a little low on seats. If 1 would come around to-morrow th supply them, they told me, as speculators were letting louse of sume of them,” From one place to another I went in my Search for theatre tickets at a reasonable price, Everywhere the speoulators blamed It on each other— the aky-high prices, “I can't hep the situation, lady,” Said one of them. “I've got to pay a vig price for these seats myself to other specumtor: It's ‘the call for the seats that makes the price. Wh the speculators buy them all up there is @ demand created for them and the prices go up and you've got to meet them or do withoui the seats,” “But Is the public always to be sub- Ject to this thing?" +1 asked, “As long as they stand for it,” he answered knowing! And there he spuxe words of wis- dom, RICH THE DRUMMERS, AND FLOATERS RESPONSIBLE, The drummers, the travelling sales- men and the floating population of New York, who wiil pay any price to see a show in the limited time they are in the city are great game for the speculators, and the average New Yorker who pays the taxes, keeps up the Fire Department and otherwise aids the theatres to exist is gouged nearly every time he wants to buy a ticket . A clerk in One of these speculators offices told me how they got some of their biggest prices, THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1920. on iin? Dist. Brown, Mullen, Carlin. Cockran Fisher Mailly Burston, Tolbert Bore, Dem. Rep. Soc. Dist. Dem. tr + Boe, Dist. Dem, Rep. Soc. bes . 6181 9149 B5i6 16th ...... 16144 12209 2022 fesse 10899 18586 1878 One election district miasing. Twelve election districts missin. nine election districts miss- Dat, Taylor. Harris.Mendels'n Pell Mills Halpern Dem. Rep. Soo, Dist. Dem. Rep. Boo. THE BRONX. 84 peveree 6475 4067 459 27th ....., 17019 30909 2210 Sshackno, Yule, Loeb. Dist. McArdle, Frooks, Nemser. Eleven election districts missing Dist, Dem. Rep. Soe, Dem. Rep. Soe. Mic- gist 20941 19872 8836 Cea 9248 6407 2150 Carew O'Connor Don Five election districts missing Dist,’ """""" pearon. Caulfield.Lorenty, Dist. Dem. Rep. So Cohen, —Abeles. Seidel. Da Kem wees. We ressse 10088 8892 4709 Dist. ‘Dem Rep. Boe. OS vevevdy, SOL» GUNNS 1028 se el Caen Pea, SEG ccvevs, ATO 15408 =| «18618 Dist. Solomon. Crews.Fruchter, ennelly Chandler Friedman “‘pwenty election dist "Dist. Dem. Rep, Soe. pushes B 6th at Tet Bagg FP Fr aieeeien ciate iat Dem. Dist. Kelly, MonohanRachiin. jog. 17 C1sht election districts mi seneas 26767 Dem. Rep. Boo, Siegel Hilquit x election districts missing, rake TIN vecveee T8T2 6668 155 Dist. Dem.-Rep. Soc. Lynch. Smith, — Veeck. Dist, Reilly. Sheridan.Sh’blum. goth ...... 11145 $45 Dist. Dem. Rep, Soc. Rep, Soe. “ Five election districts missing. 12011 12044 oue 8th . onthe enantt Donovan Ansorge Press ton districts missing. Dist. ‘arroll, Kramer. Diot. Dem. Rep, Soc, = aa Rep. Soe. 2ist ...... 26481 45804 3604 i Oth ..c.se, B27R 19125 1441 ‘Twelve election districts missing. PROPPER’S ACTS IMPROPER One election district missing, Mur- a Dist. Gray. Doherty. Camen. Griffin phy Dem. Rep. Boe. Dist. Dem, Soe. 10th sees 7664 11585 BET 220d cossseseeees 16864 11786 4906 Propper, an attorney, was Four election districts missing. ia Pa tech ah aaal election = district# qisturred from practicing in the City Dist. Warland, Bly. Spindel, missing, " of New York by the Appellate Division ith a Lr ee ee Joseph- of the Supreme Court to-day. Propper DAN SS isere, ants McKiniry Rossdale son Waa found guilty of giving false evi- Dist. De Re} Boe. Dist. Dem. Rep. denee in the trial of Paul Beck, his law DU seseees 8884 Buty 1087 Bd CS cd rah F eeaantine’ nities fi cannesuion with Five election districts missing. ae Six elec! ee ee missing, procuring the “acceptance of certain Dist. ten. Rae, aia Ganly Falrehiid Ore POON for ne ea g wan also die- 1sth ; 4000" 2203 Dist. Dem. — Re} Boe. narred, having been found guilty of 5 elect! i AD seeeeeress 18589 19 1 Violating an agre th’ another One election district missing. Jager Part of districts, in Westchester and, of iving tal ny. Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc, County to be added. soapended tre cuice for ith 3962 2967 4803, One election district missing. mths because he converted hie Laughlin Sprigude Muller AR CEL money to pay hit own obliga- Dirt Dem. Rep. 8oc.| VOTE FOR SENATORS. AGEN opcovees 7415 564 418 a Two election districts missing. QUEENS. Kleinfeld Moses Tomash Berger Karle Mainland Dist. Dem. Rep. Boo. | Dist. Dem. Rep. Soe. 16th s.ee..+, 8088 8658 2618 2d viseees 25957 © 41996 B193 Pidgeon Wells Rubin MeGarry Kunzi Revs Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc. ye aed Reng ee i AIH esses ses. 0594 13242 1867 Vasetie f Curran Stitt ~—- Riley KINGS COUNTY, LA17-A2% THIRD AVE! Dist. Dem. Rep. Boo. Sutherland Harris Stein [Rt L ! 18th -.ss+055 7188 11619 4370, Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc. A] | | One election district missing. 4th seeeees 26066 28510 8608 | Klingman Glaconne Rubin Four election districts mising. . Dist. Dem. Rep. Boe. Farrell McLaughlin Lewis it 4 10th sssseeee u Dist. Dem. Rep. —_ Soe. (OY he C d. Braun Gempler Weill, 6th .. seeve 20045 18146 1387 i] asn or re u Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc.| One election district missing. OPEN KVERY EVENING, fi] 20th seeeeeee 9750 16925 1682 Black Simpson Jacker Ham- | Dist. Dem, Rep. Se White Clayton = mond, ¢th vee 27283 i547 2246 Dist. Dem. Rep. 6oc. Five election districts missing. Bat veeseee. 9607 19241 1481 | Ross Lockw'd Greonb'g Kooper- | Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc. 1 Emmett Druse man jth. ++ 10245 27828 969" Dist, Dem. Rep. Soc.| Seven election. districts missing. 22d sseveeee, 8665 12036 bora | Conklin Burl'g’e Gleper Schneider Ricca Solomon Dist, Soe Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc. BoGU 28rd cc ceveee 1688 3669 oe Hol. Three election districts missing. n’n Sch’ter jolzwasser Home THE BRONX. Dist Dem Rep. Soc, Talks No. 624 | Hend t 80469 HE triumph of bargain making Dist. ‘Do ghsreag? bial! eh Twomey Clifton Berlin T ey re IBt_seseeeese 10007 7868 4355 | Dist. Bem. BER ‘ ‘Three election districts missing. JOU seevses sree 1600814463 5a Flynn Latham Reely| One election district missing. Dist. Dem. Rep. ‘Soc, Carroll Katlin Rogoff GAS b> octane ASEES 10601 asi | Dist. ie Hep. Soa. One election district missing. ‘ +e, 18212 g 588 Antin Dewitt NEW YORK COUNTY. Dis! Fus, Boe. Walker. Shapiro, Loeb. ty 1 Go00- 9198 8624 Dist. Dem, Rep. Soc. WAN aA MINHERE 2th weeeeee 88: 5581 H Sten rononay Or Boylan. Rrady. With's'n, it ere 8195. 9546 Dist. Dem, D.-R. Sve ‘aoinheaininttn eee iatenisaet ae Lyman Laing 18th «-+++. 28117 16390 1830 Furniture bougit now may be Fus, Soc. | Downing. Beards!\e: held our wareho se stor- 11034 9195 | Dist. D-R. age free for six months, : bY Aner Donald Becher Soheler |“ " Four election districta missing. 18194 | Mr, John Jones, a well-known man aot ny Se08 Straus jr. Ottuuger. Montanye. from the West, who comes to the city McKee Tremont! Rosen ae ery eit occasionally and wants to see all the Dist, Dem. Rep. pegs Corry AL : good shows, will go to one of these athe s..scece 7842 Pe se45| Blt election districts missing. speculators, innocently enough, and One eletcion district. missing. Dist oe Mee organ: say, “What are the best shows in| Walsh Conner Nad'm'n| Pst Dem, Rep Bos. ‘onhe speculator will tell him the Hiedal ors ie ey Twenty-one election districts miss- plays for which he ost Be on 28 ing. Kae wastes will then ase for'tyn| THFee election districts missing, Miller, Meyer. Silverman, Seats for a popular show, QUEENS. . Dist. Dem. te. “I am very sorry, Mr. Jones,” the Leininger Kenna Pranspill |}17th ...... 17019 30909 0 speculator will answer, ““those’ seats Di! Dem. Rep. —Boc.| Ten election districts missing. are very much in demand, I haven't, Ist eerseessssss 10008 7868 1214 Cotille. Hartman. Calman vot any on my hand, but I can get Schwab Murphy Palm | Dist. Dem: Rep. Soc. you some,” Dis. Dom. Rep. Boo, | 18th ....... 12410 9618 4501 “How much will they cost?” Jones 24 «sssseecesse, 8539 7729 1886 | Twenty-four election districts miss- will ask, Byrnea Neary L223, ved ing. “I can’t tell, Mr. Jonas," will come | Dis. Dem, Rep. Dowling. Duggan. Dutton. the answer, “they're asking all kinds | 34 746 = 10692 1268 | Dist. Dem. ter. of prices for that show. You ace, the Homer Pette smith | . 14762 21 speculators have all the tickets. 1/ Dis. Dem. Rep. — Boe. | think I can get you some, but they )4tB sess. 7616 16320 935, will cost you between $10 and $12 Donovan Halpern Stohr- apiece.” man Now, Jones has only three days to| Dis. Dem, Rep, Boe. stay in New York. He wants to go|Sth s.ecsesee. 9770 18797 114 vack home and tell them he has seen! Locke Baum Wenneis the best shows in New York. He just , Dist. Dem, Rep. Soc. adds up the price of the theatre |éth .. tess 9700 11404 1482 tickets as a part of his trip's ex- penses. So It doesn’t matter what he pays, and the New Yorker has to pay accordingly. Mias Loeb continues the story of her investigation in to-morrou’s Evening World. COMPLETE CITY RETURNS SHOW MANY SURPRISES IN ELECTION —>— (Continued From First Page.) Becher, Rep., won by only 69 votes) over McDonald, Dem,, on the face of the returns, VOTE FOR ASSEMBLY. MANHATTAN, Hamill, Parke. Leventhal. Dist. Dem. Soc. det... 9636 2692 Garlano. Havidun. Jem. Soc, Dist. De Bi| Mullen. Soc. | 1004 Dickstein. Malktel. it. Dem.-Rep. joc. i eaigesse, G876 4228 ohue, McCann, Williams. Dist. Dem. Rep, Soc, th essere 8667 5762 634 Thirteen election districts missing Ullman. Rosenverg. Dem.-Re Soc, sree 528 5243 districts missing Dist. Fox. Karp. Rep. Soe. 415 830 on district missing. Reiss. Waldman. Dem.-Rep, 5 roe Me ves 6266 o1i3| Three 4s missing. stello, Rayner. Strobel. DI Dem, Rep. Soc. | $th ..- 8778 13050 Morgan, Aronson, Myi | Dem. Rop. ‘Three election districts missing. Stuart, Nichols, Berlin. t. Dem, Rep, Soe. iin meee 8541 1 905 Four election missing. Pathe Hawkins Dist, Rep, $lat) ves 11189 Relburn Smith Dom| Dist, D Ren. Soe. $80. sna 46 851 1158 One election district missing, Coon Jesse Lyons | Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc. 23d ....0., 9048 16621 2207 BROOKLYN, Dist. Griffith, Warren, Haylett. | Dem. Rop. ; O'Connor.Jerome Jr.Tracht’be, Dem. Rep. » 11195 lection distric Wilson, Wallace, Rep. 50 9016 ction districts missing. Hacken- arti M burg nek Mul Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc. 4th ..000 5405 4261 1453 Thirteen ely om districts missing, Mc- Stein- Stein- Donnell "berg berger Dist. Dem. Rep. Soc FE 15) election Ss missing. Bloch Ober Dem, 4617 Volk Dist, 16th ‘ Two election Dist. 17th Seventee n districts missing. Naughtin Phillips Dist. Rep Soc. StH) <ayes 5982 4569 Smith Campbell Soe. Dist, Ist .. | One election district missing. Reynaud Frerichs Etchele | Dem. Dist, dd Nine electio} Dist Ist, Dist 12th Dist 18th . Dist Dist. Amt scersees 6898 8226 490 One election district missing, 18th .... A Bight electio: RICHMOND. Cosgrove Kipper Dearing Dem. Dooling Ryan Rich! Re Rep. 8043 8525 Rep. 8714 4343 m districts miss! Sleds abhi VOTE ON CONGRESS. Kenedy Hicks Hi'ckley Dem. 5340 Rep. 8190 | To these totals must be added votes in Suffolk and Nassau Counties. K'ndr'd H'nt's’h jr B'rk'e ection districts missing. Cleary Bond Dem. Rep, 2081 30059 on districts missing, | O'Connell Peterson Robinson Dist. Dem. Rep, oth ... ++ 20039 27569 No election districts missing. Rhoades Volk Dist. Dem, Rep. LOU ceeerees 13885 25281 Two election districts mising. Riord’n W'kem'n Dist Rep 1th 16690 Four election districts missing. Goldfogte Dem. & Rep. . +++ 8798 o Dem, & Rep. 18182 Dem op. 185191706 n districts Soc, 414 Boe. 287 ing. Soo, Sis ha Announced by the | Dist Dem, Rep. Boo | 2d vceccserese2, 42520 40308 5752| || 20,000 Pairs Men's Army Style, KINGS COUNTY. Munson Last, McWilliams Kissell Laidler Dist. Dem. Rep. Boe. ad... +» 14959 16032 6640) No election districts missing. now on Sale below Cullen Astarita’ Fagin| Dist. Dem. Rep. Boe, cost of manufacture. * 20884 14800 1605 | districts missing, Cassin Kline Chatcuft fa Dist, Rep. Soc. icugreyn : 2102 Per No election districts missing, | Pair Gcoghan Lee Passoge nee Pay fice See |] At these Brooklyn Shoe Stores ( Seven election districts missing, Bender's, 245 Grand St. : Muher. 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