The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-08
THE FREE PASS FlEND.
He Males the Life of a Theatrical Man
agcr Weary.

He Males t!le Life of a Theatrical Man
aGcr Weary.
This" said a theatrical anage lis
a very pretty town; it ought to have a
hall built around it, that might reflect in
the sky so that the surrounding countries
could see and admire. Between whites.
when yOu are not being stood mp and sand
bagged for your money, they stand you
up for passes. Upon my honor | was in
trOdUced to a man on Monday and on
Tuesday he buttonholed me on Fifth
lvenue and said he would like to come
down and see Us. so you shall, my
boy said 1, the box Office is open from
D to 0 and your dollars are always well
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, SO
her Observation-Disclosures could give a
Gil SIdS pal L liz at u L
| class restaurant last week, where they
serve second class meals, and the clerk,
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 a pass
81 chucked an infant under the chin
the other day and said it was the living
image Of its mother. | got a letter from
its father the next day asking for two
seats at the matinee, and please he
added, keep the third chair vacant if
| 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
exchanged my seat for a strap, to which
a young lady was holding on. What do
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 theatcr also. She thought
was 50 much of a gentleman she didn't
mind in the least asking me.
My pastor begs for passes. My land
lady demands them and pays off her
milk bill with them. When | treat a
man he looks as if he expected pass at
the bottom Of the glass. The street car
conductor thinks one ought to go with
every fare | pay him. Young women pre-
sent me with roses. wearing a won t
Observation-Disclosures sort OF
expression, and their brothers walk
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 walk
give me a fellow on Fifth avenue whom
[ asked Monday to send me down some
things &. Q. d.
"'We don't trust theatrical people al
all, my dear sir. We find it doesn't
pay wanted the things straightaway
and with difficulty made up the sum GU
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 right? said |.
"'Oh, you know me. You did bust
ness with me yesterday Isn't it al
right:
81 didn't wait to say a word, but
rushed home and FOR five minute
yelled blue devils up the chimney of IN.
fireplace, after which | went back to tn
theater and for two hours couldn'
break the line of people waiting 70
passes"
Then the manager, signing wearil,
and wiping his perspiring brow, wrot
on the margin of a newspaper, pas
Mr.. Jones and party to box" When h
finished he whispered: My best girl
mothers divorced husband, who at tn
8 present timeis standing in again wit
; the old lady. If things continue bloom
. ing there will be a double wedding."-
Pittsburg Dispatch.