The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-10-23
OUTRAGE ON CULTURED People,

OO4R&AGG OG NO44 QkGO PEOPLE.
When an actor or actress on the stage
during the PROCESS of u play attempts to
single out any particular person in the
audience or in boxes Mt the side of the
stage, in order to rc-attract attention
to the stage and to relieve the suffering
of an indnlgcnt audience whose patience
is worn out at the edge in listening to
a series of squawks and sqrabbles, 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 opera house
should put a stop to such an outrageous
thing then and there. If the manager
fails in an endeavor to stop 1t, he
should have ordered the curtain down
and the performance stopped.
Such a thing occurred at the Grand
opera house Wednesday night during the
performance of the melo-dramatic pro-
duction of Dare Devil Dorothy.n Doro-
thy had some kind of a song TO sing.
There was lull in the play, probably
in order to allow one or two of the lead
ing characters to change costume. poro-
thy was cued in for song during .ttNe
lull She started a sort of screech-
ing noise in accompaniment with the
piano, but the audience soon bed nle
very tired of her. In an effort TO at
tract attention to the stage the woman
deliberately singled out a young '1IdS
and gentleman who happned to have a
conspicuous SEAT in the house, and th
smirks and smiles. tried to make u km
the butt of ridicule, to the complete EN-
barrassment Of the young gentlenaH as
well as the young lady, and to the eaer-l
lasting disgust of those persons in the
audience whose cultured taste and we'll
bred manners reviled at such an insolent
display OF ill manners and impudehcc.
The woman's actions were the most
heartless exhibition of cold bIoodedness
and impertinence 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, al the while keeping UP her sheer
ing smirks and smiles toward the seat
where the young people sat. She sang
her song over i've or six times. At first
tn usual burst Of laughter came from
the audience, ~ is the usual case under
such circumstances. But when Dorothy
came back for her cncore-therc wasn't
any to he sure, but she was cued in
there to kill Line 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
pudently. brazenly and insultingiy squa-
cd herself within few feet OF the young
pople and continued. But then the au-
dicnce rebcitd in righteous Indignation
ana Missed the woman from the stage.
She got Off when a perfect storm of hiss
Is prevented her from continuing.
Now, that sost II thing should have
becn stopped then and there last night.
When that woman started to try to
make fools Of those two young people,
whose contribution helped 10 defray the
expresses OF the cnt;Ee entertainment.
Just az iuuSH - the asihls9ion Zee oi
any other person III the audience lid.
the manager 81 the house should nave
gone back to the stage and stopped it. If
lie could not do talt he should have or
dercd the curtain down. Tn people who
were present last nigat and witnessed
the OUTRAGEOUS ac;iaa, OF that brazen
actress ON the stage blame entirely the
opera house management for allowing
the thing 20 ecntin,ae. The manager Of
the house Is there TO look after the vel
fare Of the people in the audience. as
well rs to sit in Ia box Office and jingle
the receipts of the entertainment.