New-York tribune., 1901-12-08

In the price. Thus he get a chean ,,.
very small price he get a COCA ,,sa
considerably less than its rnarke. yalus ~
best theatres tickets of this sort are used b. ne
and at some not at all, and they are .n.tus
good only two nights of the v,ssr -.Aes .N
never on Saturdays "a
A less reputable way of getting seats for s
sale Is by obtaining passes. OF course no -
ager In ordinary circumstances. intends tn ST.
pass to be sold. but managers are soms.,..,
tricked Passes are legitfmately issued cbi.s,r
two classes. persons connected with the press a.
those connected with 1.-The profession" The I.,,s
usually pronounced '-perfession," means the a.
matte calling. When the house is not full al,,
any manager will admit free person who o.
good evidence that he is actor or theasr.s
manager. Such privilege as this is bound - -
abused. An actor who is dishonest, OF a nar
who only pretends to be an actor may succsas =
getting pass in advance, and then. of ccurss "a u
teeted and admission refused when the na. os DE-
brought to the door. but often it succeeds
feels to be hard up There is one in this fo1 noS I
name shall not be betrayed-who remembers ,s sss
says II belong to the perfession and I'm hara ra And
get into his theatre if there is single seat L..
box office clamoring for that seat There az the
old. broken down manager who used to ger IA al
them in advance one night a man VINO s bss s0
claim to the courtesies of the house had las ae
to agent of the theatre that he had got ss nsS
at at last @ Let me see it. said the agent It proved
had been selling them all the time He never sof m
The accusation has been made that mapa-.-.
themselves have at times tickets the cisas
a failure for which the public could not be indnsss s
to pay the regular prices. it is not unlikely IN.
return for his outlay in this manner. He could NJ
reduce the price at his own shop, but he couId
The selling of properly issued passes is not AZ an
the worst of II. After that comes the forgery of
blanks used for writing passes initiates the an ae
ayers signature them and sells them ar ~
fesur the iS af are a Fl more S les
detects something wrong about the pass and csi
pass where he got IT, He replies that it is noSody
business where he get 1.-THE has it and it entities
him that IL Is forgery. and that unless he can
g hfy n viii be rrese Rs g Oh himself ms
and the policeman who stands at the door is called
horse and he that he bought the pass at such
or such cigar store TIE cigar dealer then pro
tests his own innocence and says that he bought
the pass in good faith from an unknown person
and there the case usually ends. '
others about giving passes to- ngsns1a than
some Issue them only the request Of the man
prominent paper Others will let in pretty nearly
anybody who says that he is connected with any
sort of paper al all. few months ago a Young
man came to New-YorS with genuine credensiaiss
5sAnsS 3s SSosrespondenf % & OF paper in distant city
theatres for passes. which was supposed 10 need
IN MS newspaper Work. and drove cOnsiderab be
trade in them. He was arrested and d!scharTed e
court. on the ground that he had made no mis-
representation. being really a newspaper CORE
:spondent, and that the mana gers need not have
given him the passes unless they had chosen.
Last comes a fancy grade of cigar store tickets
for the best seats in the house. not abundant hut
by means unknown to the trade These ars
tickets sent by the management to the 6ramatic
critics of the metropolitan papers for opening per-
formances. The holder says that he bought them
at cigar store. The cigar dealer. being pressed
admits that he bought them from an enploye Of
the paper. naming him. and the employee IS dis
charged Sometimes dramatic editors have found
their desks Systematically rihed and despoed Of
tickets Sometimes the tickets intercepted be-
fore they reach the dramatic editor. Some
times complaints that tickets received come
to the same theatre from three four papers at
once. Then II may be that employe of the the
atre itself is fault.
II should be said. in Justice 70 the cigar store
ticket trade. that. although all these dishonest
methods of obtaining the stock perfectly IA
nIiliar the bulk Of the business is in the kinds OF
tickets which the holders obtain honestly and are
at liberty to sell if they choose