The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-10-22
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CLARKsBURG, W. VA, OCT, %, 1908.
OUTRAGE ON CULTURED PEOPLE

When an actor or actress on the stage
during the PROCESS of play attempts to
single out any particular person in the
audience or in boxes at the side Of the
stage, in order to re-attract attention
to the stage and to relieve the suffering
of an indulgent audience whose patience
is worn out at the edge in listening to
series OF squawks and squabbles, and
continues to do so during the time, he
or she is on the stage to the extreme
embarrassment OF the person singled out,
the management of the oP'ra house
should put stop to such an outrageous
thing then and there. If the manager
fails in an endeOvor to stop it, he
should have ordered the curtain down
and the performance stopped.
Such thing occurred at the Grand
opera house Wednesday night during the
performance of the melodramatic pro.
duction Of 'Dare Devil Dorothy" Doro.
thy had some kind Of a song to sing.
There was a lull in the play, probably
in order to allow one or two OF the lead.
ing characters to change costume. Doro.
thy was cued i'll for song during the
hull She started sort of scrcech.
ing noise in accompaniment with the
piano, but the audience soon became
very tired Of her. In an effort to at.
tract attention to the stage the woman
deliberately singled out a young lady
and gentleman who happned to have
conspicuous SCAT in the house, and with
smrks and smiles, tried to make them
the butt Of ridicule, to the complete en-
barrassmcnt of the young gentleman, as
wen as the young lady, and to THE ever
lasting disgust of those persons in the
audience whose cultured taste and we'll
bred manners rcyilcd at such an insolcnt
display OF i'll manners and impudcnce.
The womans actions were the most
hcartlcss exhibition Of cold. bloodedncss
and impcrtincncc that has ever been
witnessed on the local stage.
There was no occasion whatever for
such thing. But Dorothy kept the
thing up, She sang her song or what,
ever you might call it, over and over
again, all the while keeping up her sneer
ing smirks and smiles toward the seat
where the young people sat. She sang
her song over five or six times At first
III usual burst OF laughter came from
the audience, as is the usual case under
such circumstances. But when Dorothy
came back for her cncore--there wasn't
any to be sure, hut she was cued in
there to kill tine and as she was having
no little fun out OF the embarrassment
OF the young couple, she came back
she took chair from the stage and i'm
pudcntly, brazenly and insultingly 5quar.
ed herself within few feet Of the young
poplc and continued. But then the au.
dicnce rcbelled in righteous Indignation
ana Missed the woman from the stage.
She got off when perfect storm Of hiss
cs prevented her from continuing.
Now, that sort OF thing should have
been stopped then and there last night.
When that woman started to try to
make fools Of those two young people,
whose contribution helped to dcfray the
expenses Of the entire entertainment,
Just as much as the admission fee OF
any other person in the audience did.
the manager of the house should have
gone back to the stage and stopped it. II
he could not do that he should have or
dered the curtain down. III people who
were present last night and witnessed
the outrageous actions Of that bra2en
actress on the stage blame entirely the
opera house management for allowing
the thing to continue. The manager OF
the house is there to look after the vel
fare of the people in the audience, as
well as to sit in the box office and jingle
the receipts of the entertainment.