The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
can't take club and drive people in. Even


. woman manager can't do that
The ticket seller is silently counting
over his tickets. The manager looks about
despairingly.
You can't All that barn with deadhesds,
It's too big even for that. Well. wen do
the best We can. II the people won come.
they won't, and that all there Ii about it,
That was a poor kind Of consolation.
but the manager seemed to find some salts
faction IN 1t. AZ she leaned her arms on the
table and stared at the plan that contained
so many empty seats.
will YOU please let us get here?' asked
| an indignant voice, We've been waiting To
buy some seats for the past ten minutes
With a gI,lnt the manager moved on to
the seats In front Of the music counters,
where she Fat staring az all the kinds of
assorted ragtinie that were scattered IN front
of her.
we want three Of the best seats for the
Sembr!ch recital said the spokeswoman
Of the trio. what have you got?'
There were three seats In the second
| row and three in the rear of the house.
(which do we want girls?' she ask cd,
"at the back We can hear best. but In front
We can see"
Well, as is a concert, think we'd
Then you can't see, though. and she
always wears such beautiful clothes"
Then lets 90 down front. How many
times does she change her dressf'
Not q. all. But well take the three
down front. How much, please2 Seven
and half, My heavens. girls, ! thought
| they only cost dollar!'
Il thought concerts always cost dollar
| Why, that's more than the theatre and just
! to see one person stand on the stage and
sing!'
but IL il costs that much" was one sug-
gestion. 1T must be very good. Let's pay
| II and GO
Every one OF the trio contributed her
g. so and the tickets were bought.
| Are my kneisel Quartet tickets ready2'
asked q carefully modulated tenor voice.
It's owner was clear skinned and behind
| his gold-rimmed spectacles showed pair
| of bright blue eyes. With him was woman
dressed with no pretence To fashion. but the
same air Of healthy thought and life, They
were examples Of the audiences that fare
well on chamber music.
And the men" observed the ticket
! seller "a the two left the store, have grown
80 much more numerous among the kneisel
| substitutes that the afternoon concerts
| have been given up altogether, Now only
| the evening concerts are given, although
! at first il was only the women who, by
coming In the afternoons. made the con-
certs possible in this city"
1, was getting toward Q O'Clock, the hour
| at which the box Office closed. One woman
in the early 4Os hustled In to ask II Anton
Van Rooy was to give a song recital this
| winter She did like him 20 much. she con-
fidentially told the ticket seller, who was
SO much enerossed getting ready to close
up that he did not seem to hear her.
Two comfortable, bunchy elderly women
with fat backs and a contented air, came
in for two seats for THE Messiah They
wanted 10 get them without any mistake
so left their orders then and there. al
though the oratorio must have been six
weeks of.
Il could have told you before those
women said a word" the ticket seller OBJ
served as he closed up for the night, that
they we're going TO ask for tickets to The
Messiah l knew they belonged to the
Oratorio Society crowd. l can tell 'em al
a glance, just as know who's going 70 ask
about the Boston symphony Orchestra
or the Philharmonic, Paderewski or Sem
brich.
Il even know the piano recital people
from those that are going to ask about
instrumental concerts. There's something
about all OF them that makes II easy tt
tell after one has been In the business fol
a few wears"