The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-23

schoolgirl, too, evidently, from the books
under her arm" go. -.
This was apropos of a ladylike looking
young girl who had come in and lin q
few concise words asked for tickets, paid
for them, and gone out. o 20.
"You see," said Mr.. Rockefeller, ''she.
came in and said in the first breath that
she wanted two-dollar seats. in the bal
cony for Saturday. The only thing she
did not say was whether the tickets
We're for the evening or matinee. If She
had added that she would have put the
whole thing in single sentence. There
may be seven or eight members of her
family, but OF them all she is the one.
who buys the tickets, and she does "
quickly and satisfactorily. III
"Women always take little more
time to select their seats as a rule, ands
they are more difficult to please. They
don't seem to know exactly what they
want. One elderly woman came the
other day and said she wanted a seat
away up front in the orchestra. Welk
we could give her the first row, but that
was altogether too near. Fourth or fifth
row? oh, dear no. that was too nearSt
also. We asked her finally what She
did want, and she said she thought the
seventh or eighth row would be about
right. She did not want anything un-
usual after all, for the ninth and tenth
rows are considered the best In the
house. There are some women who In
sist always upon having an orchestra
seat. If they are bound to see certain
play on a certain night they will not
take the best seat we can offer up stairs,
chairs are sold. 4.r
/ :..e ~o1n hnV
as the people who take the fifty and sew
ticular and take a long time to decide.
Some of them insist upon having GER
tain seats, and will wait any length Of
time to get them.
There is a man who, with his wife,
takes two end seats in the first row of
the fffty-cent seats. They will engage
them five weeks ahead if they can't get
them before, and have their names down
for them before the tickets are printed
and when we are not sure whether the
same play will be running at that time.
Matinee girls do the same thing. They
will only take certain seats in the front
row for so cents, and they will wait until
they can have them. :
'+Some of the best-dressed women in
| the house are to be found in the cheaper
| seats. Some of the matinee girls who fill
| that part of the theater come dressed in
silks and velvets. They do not take the
| cheaper seats because they are obliged
| to. but because they would rather come
| two or three times for the same money.
Those girls will see the same play over
i and over again. We have known them
| to come IL and Is times to see an iden-
| teal performance. They come regularly.
Thursday after Thursday. We don't see
| the same girls on Saturday, for then
they go probably to other theaters. There
are older women who come frequently
to see one play. but not as the matinee
girls do.
"It is the cheap-seat people who are
hardest to deal with over the telephone.
The -cent-seat girl talks long time.
doesn't like this and that. and finally
says she will call us up again. This is
the girl who sometimes throws a bluff.'
I have known one of them. when thcre
were q number Of people in line. OF