The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-11
ARTISTIC DEiDnE1Ds.
How Some Men Try TO See Play without
Paying for Admiration.


"Yes. sir" said the doorkecpcr OF tho
California Theatre the other evening. az he
slipped = check under small elastic band,
dcalhcad into this here thca-ter is more n YOU
credit The second act being now we'll on and
the stragglers all in, no loaned up against the
photograph stand. stroked his grzllcd board
and went on. " Some of om makes il u regular
study. and has it brought down to quite fine
lluby,orn. Sometimes. however. they're so
well dressed and checks II out SO confound ed
,bt a bc men For SSoT
the man who is one of a box party. Nearly al
ways they goes in together, but once now and
agin gentleman who don't care about gulping
his black coffee comes late and says he, All
others invariably saws Mr. So-nnd So is vet to
there slips up young tailor's model with
square check ON him Ike mule, and walk ing
GG2 en nj s sags says wha and
that boxes him. for of course knows every box
check took pat as your aIfalfabet. Then the
way in which that there young man Wits is
worth part of whole weeks salary TO see
=, Then there's another slippery customer and
that is the man who il looking for the manager.
He's pretty nearly always well dressed, like the
other CHIP and has u gall on him Hike an OK.
nye got I'm. though in TIC n, mos, siWpest way
he asks for, and he's out of town, why. nat rally
TINT let's him UP sharp and quick. II it's Mr..
comes bout this time, the middle or so of the
second act, takes his cigar out OF his mouth
very careful, and says kinder easy like. ! am
10 see + il" IS sY ther" (which of then, saws
yWihssh G Of them he reRGqss; ks | says
sure he says, Mr. Hill il the gentleman Mr..
Hiil Isays,, has Just gone into the box office ;
rule try ii on twice. II, however, he looks one
r. H. MI p1gd grip w2nt throw says A. yfs
call him DOWN SO, looking up. | calls out, MIR.
Hill Mr.. lIillr, and when I turn round about
agln, my friend has always hooked II.
But the greatest numbcr OF all who try TO get
in on their face are those who belong to the
press. Tho crowd OF newspaper correspond
cnis who want to see play is something amaz-
ing. Papers you nor nobody else ever heard OF
have sent their special correspondents here to
see MIR. Barrett as tdSs,us. and several critics
have travelled all the way from Pen Yam sole
and only 70 see MIR. Florence as OpeITazOr, as
Bishop calls it. Most always. too these literary
bearer Is authorized correspondent Of the Popo-
munk H'gidycr; maybe. or any eurtsey shown
q the Donahue's Landing Senti- Weekly Gazette.
My answer To- these Is icrcotyped. Sir, J. says.
l. have my list here Of newspaper gentlemen
who has a right 10 pass In; Your name Il not
on II. Got pass from the box office. please.
TecTs w S s SHG in 81 esGSDs %hG fst
away sorrowful 1t always docs hurt me, to send
back newspaper man. they seem rs IL they d
enjoy the play SO much, but duty is duty.
On the other hand. however. there H. man
Tn in no wise compunctious about rcfus ng
/
cheek. Now. there are y few gentlemen TO
whom / don't give checks-Harry Logan. Sandy
Austin. Mr.. Budd. md such like. They comes
most every night | knows cm well. and they
| don't like TO be bothered. But when "A slnartie
comes ip switching his eane. and. throwing his
cigarette away with u ilrt. says, ALI. you for
got Ia give mo check or running his finger
in his vest pockets. says. by George, I've
missed my check; or grnning with u sorier
strike you with feather air. says. You said
you'd remember my face. you know then |
| looks At him minnit and his eye. or better
still. his under lip. shows me in "A crack whether
/ hos square or no. Besides these. come across
/ dixie n not in Il single night the stranger who
! wants 10 look round before going back to his
ranch the futher who has children in the audi
! cncc. and the harkman who wants TO Keep an
/ eye on his fare. These last dodgers. as n rule.
| don't show their fuccs till the last act Is on.
" But the greatest chara Ter Of all Is the man
who II booking after the doctor. There il one
slI fellow ina partieu who il regular artist.
and ought 10 ne ON the stage. | think he must
heHlways turns up. sure as clockwork. He's an
oldi-h man. and sometimes he comes without
his hat. occasional h. has on his carpet Slip
psr-, and on A.. when Henry V. was up he came
without his coat He always PUSHES in. and
looking rs though he'd Just come from Stock
ton, calls ont rs he slips 10y. Is DR.. SO-anl 50
in the house and makes up the stairs like a
streak Of lightning. ono night he WIS so quick
that he'd got 10 the first landing before could
Whether it, DR.. O'Iunncl or DR.. Tuland al
ways says he's not inside. It. a pity. too. the
old TELLER should t',r such trouble, for he's
never yet sut g. -" az" show. Yes. he's been
Tonight. VOL. here's the second act over.
Good night. SIR