St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-23
LIKE TO BE DEADHEADs.
A Manager Describes the People
Who Want Something for

"A
Who Want Something for
Nothing.
Washington Star.
sits curious, too" he continued, show
fond most people are of getting dead
head tickets, although they may cost
them in the end ten times as much as
regular tickets could be bought for at
the box office. People with more wealth
than they know what to do with
Will work like beavers, stand snub-
bing of all kinds, sacrifice their
self respect and often spend in
treating more money twice over than
tickets would have cost them at the box
ofhce, In working an agent for compli-
mentarieS. They seem to prefer free
passes which put them under obliga-
tiOnS to the theater people and cost
them good deal besides to the regular
tickets which they might have bought at
the office and been entirely independent
of everybody. Another curious thing is
the ambition which many solid business
men, who are perfectly willing to pay
their way, have to be known as men
who can pass in and out between the
acts without the aid of return check.
They seem to think it great privilege
apparently feeling that it argues them
men of prominence. l know number
OF middle-aged men, who you think
would be above such vanity, who never
take checks If they can help it,"
w nat sort OF crowd is hardest to
nandle?' the reporter inquired, to stim-
ulate the flow of talk, which gave some
signs of drying up.
Il have the worst times at matinees,
when there is big crowd of women. |
am sorry to say it, but there is no deny
ing that women, even of the best class,
are vastly harder to keep in order than
men; They cannot be got to submit to
regulations which are only made for
their own benefit and comfort. If po-
lceman tells crowd of men waiting to
reach the box Office to get in line they do
so at once without trouble. But let him
try to get crowd of women in line, and
there is almost invariably row. They
crowd and JOStle and hustle one another,
try to steal places ahead of where they
properly belong, and altogether act as
ifthey had put off their good sense and
| manners when they put on their good
clothes to come to the theater. If a DO
| liceman or theater attache speaks to
one OF them, no matter how ciYilly, the
chances are that he will be accused of
self burst of wrath that uses him COM
pletly up.
People may think the scenes at box
office windows which the funny papers
| get up now and then are exaggerated,
| but if you will study women buying
tickets over there you will come to the
| conclusion that justice has never been
| done the subject. The average woman
| is never satisfied with her seats, and in
| yariably insists that the ticket seller
could give her better ones if he wanted
to, no matter how good those she
secures may be. Usually she
winds up with an intimation
that he is swindling her by keeping
| back better seats for people whom he
| wishes TO favor, and, having counted
| out her @aDge three or four times, put
it carefully away in her purse, found
| her pocket and slowed the purse away
in it, buttOned her gloves and shook her
draperieS back into proper position, she
starts to get out the way she came in,
although the other way is entirely clear,
while the wrong way she insists on TAX
ing is full of impatient people waiting
| their turn at the man in the box office.
Ii you think am too severe Just come
up some Saturday afternoon and see for
| yourself. L can't understand it,"