The San Francisco call., 1897-11-13
It's All a Mistake, at Least That
Is What the Baldwin
Manager Says.
THE USHERS COULDN'T TALK ITALIAN.
The Trouble at the Opera Was All
Because It Was a Latin
Audience,

"Say, that young fellow got off all
wrong about those hats. What's got int O
him, anyway? w y, don't you know
there are no high hats worn IN either the
California or the Baldwin? That young
fellow doesn't know wha: he's talking
about"
Morgenstern OF the Baldwin and Cali
fornia was not bit angry. He was just
hurt 10 think that any BODY shoulc be so
unjust as to insinuate that the law was
violated in the sligh est degree.
And then, too, that story about Rot
tanzi. Why, Rottanzi stood by Morgen-
stern's side all the time he was at the
opera and was we'll pleased with the way
the house looked.
The ordinance2 Why. OF course, the
ordinance is all right. It's very good
ordinance and ought TO be enforced in
every theater just as it is in the Baldw n
Such [ ing as big hat is never known
in the Bald in. 0 course not. Why the
ladies themselves won't wear them.
'W mats that? Do we ever ask them TO
take them OFF, Why, we have sent
dozens OF them out To the box-ottice .or
their money or Tor tickets for some other
night when the lady could wear low
hat.
make the mats come off. Just let any
body make a comp amt and we Will send
the USHER right down with card the
lady, and Ii she Ices not comply with the
aw she must cave
Now th Sc things ladies wear on their
heads -ometimes what 10 you call
them? Not vnagre ties. What's tina ?
Cigarettes? No, that isn't II. What
A grettes2 Yes, that's il. Now hey
Jon't bother any body.
DO the ush RS eveT-well, like that.
o Course they do. Just let one O. tue
auies wear nat IKE tnat in that picture
and she will be asked very quickly TO re-
move t."
Ii was one OF those impossible creations
Gay New York" as pictured on the bill
boards. But Morgenstern wa, seriou
about 1t. His fee ings were hurt. Had
no, his theaters oeen maligned
About those eighty bats seen Monday
night AT the opera in California Well.
YOU know, thai was an Italian opera and
lie ladies were of Latin extraction and
he ushers could not make them under
stand what was wanted. If D.. RottanZi
al been ther be cou d have explain ed
to the ladies and there would have been
no trouble.
So there you are again. Do the high
hats obstruc- the view In Jie theaters or
not? There is the authority of Morg n
Stern on tie side of the negative, and
then there is the evidence of dozens Of
thea er-goers on the side OF the athrma-
i've.
But Morgenstern ought to know, for
isn't he at the theater every night, and
isn't it his business to see that the law is
not violated?
Then there also comes the question as
to what kind of hat would oDstruct the
view. The old style Gainsboroughs are
no longer worn, but those creations which
are composed of mass of noddlng
plumes make sort of shifting panorama
of the stage and a gibbering IDIOT of the
man who is compelled 10 dodge The
feathers in vain efforts TO see the actors
Talk about the shifting lights of a
kinetoscope, why they are a rest for the
eyes alter halt an hours dodsing Of way-
ing piumes and noddlng head. OF course
the ladies who wear them have no other
place 10 show them off and no other kind
of nat to wear TO the theater, and ALWAYS
forget 10 fix their hair jus right o show
10 advantage with the hat off, so what is
pair o eyes or brain or so when a iady's
convenience and pleasure are al stake.
Anyhow they don't wear them, for
Morgenstern says so, and Morgenstern
ought TO know.