Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-05-12
The FREE PASS FIENp.
He Makes the Life Or Theatrical Man
agcr Weary.


He Makes the Life Or Theatrical Man
ager Weary.
This said theatrical manager, sis
o very pretty town; it ought to have a
hall built aroand it, that might reflect in
the sky SO that the surrounding countries
could see and admire. Between whiles,
when you are not being stood up and sand
bagged for your money, they stand you
up for passes. Upon my honor was in
troduced to rQan on Monday and on
Tuesday he buttonholed me on Fifth
avenue and said he would like to come
down and see US. so you shall, my
boy said /, the box Office is open from
0 to 8 and your dollars are always vel
come.
"Another time was a sort Of en-
forced escort to a young lady who was
belated and had missed her friends. |
knew her slightly, and, as a gentleman
/ should, offered to see her home. There
isn't a. blessed relative she has that
haven't passed into this house, and only
the other day the young woman met me
and said her sister was going to be mar
ried, and wouldn't give her a box, SC
4 her Observation-Disclosures could give a
] farewell stag party. dined at first
class restaurant last week, where they
serve second class meals, and the clerk,
I as he struck me for two dollars, re-
marked, 'You might just as well use
the other side Of that check to make me
out pass
81 chucked an infant under the chin
the other day and said it was the living
image of its mother got letter from
its father the next day asking for two
seats at the matinee, and please, he
added, keep the third chair vacant il
You can, Baby is going along, as it is
nurses day out, and the little fellow
may want to have his mothers knee
Another day in a crowded street car
I exchanged my seat for strap. to which
young lady was holding on. What dc
Y you think, she came into my office only
this morning and wanted to know If
wouldn't be SO 'perlite' as to give her a
seat in the theater also. She thought
was SO much of Il gentleman she didn't
mind in the least asking me.
MY pastor begs for passes. Ny land.
lady demands them and pays off he1
milk bill with them. When treat d
man he looks as if he expected pass al
the bottom Of the glass. The street ca1
conductor thinks one ought to 90 with
every fare | pay him. Young women pre-
sent me with roses, wearing a won't
you-pass-me- me-through-the-door sort oi
expression, and their brothers walh
\ along the avenue with me and call me
my boy and want to know what night
me and sis can find a couple Of seats
Then they take some other fellows sis
/ ter. But for the cock of the cake wall
give me fellow on Fifth avenue whom
l asked Monday to send me down some
things q. 0. D.
1--WE don't trust theatrical people al
all, my dear sir. We find it doesni
pay. wanted the things straightaway
and with difficulty made up the sum ou'
of the change in my pocket. The mex
night the gentleman was at the theatel
door just as came forward.
~ suppose it's all right? he said.
"What's all righty said |.
"sOh, you know me. You did bust
ness with me yesterday Isn't it al
right
Il didn't wait to say word, but
rushed home and for five minute
yelled blue devils up the chimney of m,
fireplace, after which went back to th1
theater and for two hours couldn'
break the limo Of people waiting fo-
passes"
Then the manager, signing YEARLY
and wiping his perspiring brow, wroti
ON the margin Of newspaper, ''Pas
Mr.. Jones and party to box When h
finished he whispered: my best girl
mothers divorced husband, who at th'
H present time is standing in again will
the old lady If things continue bloom
/ ing there will be a double wedding. ~
Pittsburg Dispatch.