The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-07
AT THE SHOW.
Peaople Who Stay All Day at Contin-
uous Vaudeville Performances.

New York SUM
The continuous vaudeville mana gers
have one sure way of telling whether the
! public likes their show or not. When the
were glued TO the seats and couldn't get
away. the manager pats himself on the
/ back and remarks 10 the box office that
/ things are coming their way
/ This shows that the manager is a
/ philosopher. Some men would think 1t
] showed a mean. grdSplng disposition Tor
| people to come at noon, pay their quar-
/ terS ana stay until almost midnight } ncy
/ would mediate on the other folks with
! quarters in their pockets who We're not
/ paying their money at the box Office and
/ why Because OF standing cJOm only.
] No one would blame a manager for think
ing, IN a time like that. OF the bet Span
ish phrase referring 10 Yankee pigs
Instead OF which, the managers Lean
benevOlently.
why not?' said one of them. ''yf peo-
pie ike our show well enough TO sit
through two performances Of =. ole on
top of, the other, we take it as a compli-
ment"
Then there are people who 10 u;
oh yes. We often find the remains Of
what must have been a nice Lille lurch.
Sandwiches are favorites with Jh9 sts y
, ers. and they eat a good teal of fruit
too. But the fruit isn't so poplar 4 this
time of year as it is in the summer
Bananas seem to have the call then.
They're filing. YOU know. and 1 heard
one woman tell another that there was as
4uCu uDUIlSlfIGlL IN one DaudllI as II. q
pound of beefsteak. 1 think hey ad two
bananas apiece. so when l saw them go
ing out. along toward II O'Clock. ! didn't
feel sorry for them, though they cd look
a little pale"
Are there many women among the
stayers?"
No most Of the fixtures. are men.
Some of them are regulars. " eG know
them by sight and i they desert ii us
we'd know there was something Erttty
rotten about the performance. They're
of gsgrea Ngn NaH
judge how the show strikes the pLf tic If
they all went back on US at once. we'll, I
suppose we'd hold a solemn tTrclave 10
consider the situation
Then you don't object 20 StaYers?'
Not bitH'
And you don't resort % ell so~ts Of
tricks to get them ont
''Of course not, Suppose there are a
dozen of them in our average audience.
What's that? Especially as nine-tenths
of them are in the galleries. The few
tickets they cost US are nothing COM
pared with our satisfaction that the show
seems to please. No, sir: if they can
stand it TO sit through two performances
we can stand il to have them"
But how about hoiidays?"
We'll. that's little different Holt
days are the times when the StdyerS
really get troublesome They are multi
piled ten times and more then. You see
we open pretty early in the morning. and
there's plenty of them that are perfectly
willing to sit here from 9 O. m. til II D.
m, or at least. until s O'Clock However
by scientifically arranged programme
We can manage to get most Of them out
at a reasonable time
What do YOU mean by a scientifically
arranged programme
"One where the repeats are worked in
at the right time. That gives an audi
ence a hint as TO what's expected of
them. II they don't take the hint though
we have no complaints 10 make. They've
a perfect right TO stay. once they're in
here. until the curtain goes down. As
matter of fact. We come near selling three
houses. even for an ordinary perform
ance. So We have no complaints TO make
of the few good friends who find us so
entertaining that they stay by US over
long. Come in here at our thinnest hour.
and yOull find that the fixtures are really
few and far between. When is the thin
nest hour2"
s'T2efween 5.31 and 6.90"