The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-13
THE ORCHESTRA CHAIR LOVER.
Regular Career of the Young Man Whs
Sends Notes to the First Soprano.

| New York Mail and Express.
| A short time ago a paragraph went the rounds
| of the newspapers to the effect that young
| woman. singing in one of the comic operas had
| received from an unknown admirer, the present
! of handsome diamond bracelet. The actress,
| when asked about the matter. said the newspaper
| story was true displayed the bracelet to each
one Of twenty newspaper men: and said that she
/ would return it to the giver if she knew who he
| was The bracelet was variously valued at
| from 81 900 to ST. 200
very young man, with very bright eyes and
a very keen wit, who is attached to the business
| end OF the house, where the songstress in ques-
| ton was singing at the time, said recently that
| the story about the bracelet was a manufactured
| one.
shes not young you see" said the young
man, 'and she's clever enough to get up little
| hctlon like this to keep her name in the news
| papers. / don't believe the story. because she
does not have any admirers lounging about the
house during the performances as the Others
| have"
How do you know what the others have?'
Il can't help knowing it. They come and ask
the ushers questions about the object of their
affections. They want to know how old she is:
whether she is married; if not is she engaged to
be married When they have learned as much
as they can from the ushers, they will make
| friends with some one else about the house. And
then half dozen admirers of different singers
meet in the lobby between acts and compare notes.
AS soon as they have found out how the land lies,
nave, tNcy attempt TO secure an itu
dience with the fair ensaver The first thingis to
ask an usher TO take note and a bouquet back
on the stage. The usher replies that he cannot
do it, as it is contrary to the rules of the house.
If he did such a thing he would be discharged.
This rather staggers the young man But he
quickly finds the we'll beaten paths which many
scores of his kind have trod before him. He
sends telegraphic dispatches, mails letters to the
box office for his divinity, and never gets any
answers"
Ard then, what?"
There is routine from which no susceptible
young man was ever known to depart When
he falls to impress one principal, he turns his
attention to another one From the obdurate
second choice he passes to a third, who proves
equally cruel. And so, step by step, the ardent
lover of the first soprano becomes in the course
Of time the distant admirer Of one Of the chorus
girls, with whose name, for the space of twenty
four hours, he is wholly unacqualnted. | never
knew this march of the affections take any other
| route but this one"
docs hi get the name of the chorus girl?7
Decidedly. He gets it from of the chorus
men. This army of workers resort to a saloon
in he neighborhood to refresh themselves after
the labor of the evening performance, and here
the young man in quest of in2rmation finds
them. He goes up to the bar with friend. calls
for drinks and asks one of the Choir
listers who is standin 10y if he won't
have something. The thirsty singer as
Sents, the Young man remarks the fact that he
has seen the singer in the opera chorus, and the
process OF pumping IS happily inaucurated. The
name thus secured, the old business of Ifotes is
again brought into USE and the writer of them
generally finds the chorus girls as silent as their
more prominent companions the stage. At
all events they drop off after n while, their
faces disappear from the Hobbies here and a new
collection moves to the front"