The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

sheets and other paper of the company
 posted all over the town, was yer.
 lurid, and the consequence was tha
 few ladies were in the audience; bu
 the men were there, and nearly al those who sat in the orchestra chair
 and close up to the stage seemed to b,
 bald. They sat up in their chairs witl an air of expectancy, and every ont
 of them seemed to be armed with {
 pair of field glasses, or at least heavy pair of opera glasses, no matter how
 close he was to the stage To then
 the show was a rank disappointment
 It was nothing like the promise of the
 lurid pictures, and when the curtains
 went down on the first act the house
 was badly disappointed. On the stage
 there was really nothing worth looking
 at, and after the battery of field and
 opera glasses was once levelled at the
 stage and lowered, the holders of those
 glasses seemed to lose all interest in
 the appearance of the people in the
 cast.
 But if the show was disappointing
 ana tame to the holders of the dollar
 seats in the orchestra, it was doubly SC
 to those in the top-heavey gallery, and
 when the curtain fell on the first act
 derislVe yells and hoots from the gallery
 showed what the men and bows up
 there thought of the performance.
 The yells, the hoots, the howls and the
 laughter made a tremendous noise, and
 ought to have prepared the stage folk
 in some measure for what was to come 1 When the noise had quieted down to some extent score of men and boys | might have been seen making their way out of the gallery as if disgusted with the performance and tired of it,
 but every one of those men and boys got return checks. After an absence of ten minutes they climbed back into their seats. They were careful not to brush against one another or other spectators, and the pockets of the coat of each bulged suspiciously
 The curtain went up on the stage grouping of the bad chorus for the sec- ond act, and the howls and yells broke out anew. When the alleged song bird ambled out to sing a ditty after the first crorus there was something doing. What that was the entire au- dience saw, when an egg, thrown from the gallery, dropped on the stage at the feet of the singer, and the meat of it spattered her red stockings. She turned up her nose in disdain at the gallery, and went on with her song But that first egg was the signal for others. Few would have imagined there were so many eggs in Vicksburg. They were showered down upon the stage. Some were good eggs, some were refrigerator eggs, and many were bad eggs. It simply rained eggs, and the people on the stage danced and tucked to get out of the way of the falling eggs. The prima donna jumped behind the bass singer and both lodged back of the scenes. Everybody on the stage ran for cover. One man in the orchestra seat raisel an open umbrella and he was cheered, and the people down stairs cheered as every egg was thrown from the gallery. Finally the eggs seemed to be exhausted, and there were no more bulging coat pockets in the gallery. Then two stage hands ap- peared on the stage, sprnkled sand deep upon it, and swept off the mess and the egg shells. All this time the performers were safe behind the wings
 When the mess was cleared away the manager stepped out to the foot lights and announced that if any more eggs were thrown he would climb into the gallery and whip the man throwing them. Biff;! Almost before he was through speaking an egg struck him on the forehead and nearly blinded him. Then half a dozen other eggs fell on or about him. He rushed from the stage, climbed the steps into the gal lery and whipped two men before the gallery crowd whipped him. By this time all the stock of eggs had been exausted, but the fight broke up the show. The gallery audience, however, laid in wait outside for the troupe, and | the performers to their hotel, hooting and cat-calling every step of ! the way. One man In the crowd | ,rowed like rooster every minute all | most and his growing kept the crowd | n a merry mood The alleged actors | .ool1 their reception philosophically as | hough they had previously taken thir- y two bad-egg degrees.
 "The Vicksburg papers the next day lad no mention of the egg throwing, he fight or the breaking up of the op- ,ra. When I asked why, I was told the ocal manager of the theater was a rood fellow, and the reporters thought
 publication might damage his house. New Orleans Times Democrat.