The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-16
ANGER OF ENGLISH AUDIENCES.
Theater Riots in London Which Have n,
Parallel in This Country.


There was lately a bit of row at Court
theater on the North side. in this city,
but it was not a row in which the patrons
were engaged against the manager. Chi
cago in recent times has witnessed no Sc
rfous troubles in its theaters because of
mOmentary dsagreements between the
managers and the people in the seats.
Old settlers are sometimes heard to tell
of troubles of this kind that occurred in
the days before the pit here here was
done away with, and sailors and other IT.
repressible persons used to crowd into it
and have things about as they wished
them. But that was long, long ago.
In London, England, angry disturbances
in the theaters are of frequent occurrence.
A most exciting scene was only two weeks
ago witnessed in the Prince of Wales
theater. According to all accounts it was
a hard and angry scene, the like of
which had not occurred in London for
many a year And according to these
same accounts it was entirely unnecessary
IA little tact on the part of the manager
would have prevented it all. One writer
in a London paper says:
I've have had good first nights and bad
first nights; actors and authors have been
called forth to be mercilessly and bru-
tally Kissed: plays have been received
with derision and contempt: particular in
dividuals in an audience have been singled
out for personal and offensive attack, but
not often has an audience got absolutely
beyond the control of the manager.
Many instances of fine tact and diplomat
ic persuasion have been recorded on such
| occasion. The other night at the Prince
of Wales theater there was nothing of
the Sort
A writer in the London Telegraph re-
wives some circumstances and scenes of
this kind which theater goers everywhere
may find of interest. On the evening
which saw Tennysons Promise of May
a. the Globe in London, "a foolish sec
ton of the audience thought it high fun
to 'chivy' Mr.. Gladstone in a private box.
Rowdy Scottish students We're wont to be
a prolific source of annoyance and riots
in English theaters are of quite modern
fashion. Charles Wyndham, not many
years ago, had brush with a gentleman
who was regarded by Lord Palmerston,
when seen in the corner of an omnibus
as the embodiment of average political
wiSdom-'the man with the white hat
Squire Bancroft spoke of an unexpected
prologue when the Haymarket opened I'M
der his management and the pit. like
Bottom, found itself translated John
ToOle has been annoyed by cowardly
roughs in the north country. where
manager, one Saturday night, had his
house wrecked because he dropned the
curtain on the final tahicau of Sweeney
Todd without permitting the d5mon bar
Der TO be realistically executed. A dra-
matte critic rose in the Princess stalls
and protested against the barbarous
treatment of Josephs in the prison scene
of It's Never Too Late to Mend
Curiousiy enough, there was a tuneful
number with the Reade title in the
Prince of Wales opera, whose perfor-
nance on SATURDAY. provoked a deDlOra BILE
finale to an evenings amusement. Four
and twenty years ago a dead set was
made against James Mortimer, the author
of "Heartsease," and James Rignold, in 4
manly speech. reminded the malcontents
that it was cowardly to vent their spite
upon Miss Helen Barry. Henry Irving
one evening appeared in his Louis NI.
robes to face a screaming pit which, with
singular foolishness, had resented the pro-