The sun., 1907-03-31
CLERGY AND THE CHORUSMVBT
ArASHAW MATINEE WHEN MRS.
warren" rs PLAYED.

Nice Old Ladies' aud schOOlma'ams Of tho
Boston Type Also There for the Pur.
nose OF Sociological study But the
Press Agent Has His Hands Full
The foyer Of the Manhattan Theatre has
heen presenting for some weeks an appear
snoe which would hardly seem due to it,
since on either side OF the entrance large
r,acards announced that MRS. Warren's
profession" was still going on.
The ma jority Of the early comers to one
matinee seemed to belong to the mothers
meeting class. At the box Office they acted
little unused TO the amenities Of the occa-
sion and one or two tried to beat down the
prce4 on account Of being especially inter-
ssted in the play for moral reasons. but
when the man behind the shelf refused
oo,!rteously 10 take anything off they went
in lust the same, which showed the sincerity
~ their desire TO elevate the race.
MANY Of these disciples Of social purity
had seats right in the baldheaded row, for
thew admitted they were either a little deaf
or little nearsighted and as long as they
had 10 come there was no sense in losing
sny If the Shaw show.
one nice old lady chewed gum all the
time She had pink cheeks, her white hair
was rarted on her motherly brow, she had
new henrietta cloth gown with a white
null collar ard wore big brooch with
q picture OF her late husband surrounded
nv hand Of real gold. She looked little
uneasy when she first came in and was
overheard 20 say to her neighbor that
p'raps she oughtn't TO have come, but when
the Current Topics Club of Hackensack
asked her To represent them, she did not
soc how she could refuse, as they'd put the
request on the ground that her reputation
was so we'll grounded that even Bernard
Shaw couldn't hurt il permanently. She
said she wouldn't for the world repeat all
he Said, but she would say that it wasn't
as had as she hoPed-she meant expected.
Along one side of the east aisle a bevy OF
visiting school teachers took up a oon-
siderable space They wouldn't be separated
for the world and when the box Office man
suggested that he might not. be able to
bunch the lot they protested vehemently
that they would rather stand up than stand
separation. They didn't say that they
believed there was safety in numbers, but
they looked it. Some Of them wore chiffon
wells. which they did not raise until they
had been in the theatre quite while and
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all Of them had bags, in which were note
books and pencils, and after they had made
one or two furtive marks they whispered
that they hoped they wouldn't get run over
by an automobile on the way home and
have the contents Of the bags described
in the horrid New York papers, -the way
they always do, you know"
Somebody said that the schoolma ANS
we're from Boston. hut they may not have
been, for all sorts Of rumors were flying
about.
Two men with wads Of money in thei
hands stepped blithely up to the box office
and said they didn't care where they sat
90 long as it was near enough to the stage
to get a good look at the girls mittens.
They'd take a box il the man insisted,
although they weren't proud and if he
didn't have anything else, why, stock
brokers' tickets were good enough for them.
There is nothing so imperturbable as the
face Of box Office man unless it may be the
back Of his head This one turned around
to show that fact, took two coupons, laid