The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

seats with her southern daily story
About the funniest thing that ever
came my way, though. happened a few
days ago. A man walked in here and
asked Tor me. sending in his card and
saying his business was very pressing
| had him shown in and asked him what
we could prescribe for him. Well he
said, looking around the office, I called
TO see II you would give me couple
of tickets for tomorrow night in
CURED on what ground he asked for this
courtesy, and he replied, Oh, no ground
whatever. 1 just heard that you often
gave out tickets here, and I thought l
would like to get coupled
But the most interesting class of dead
head l have here" he continued, SIS the
one who is willing to pay to be one.
Paradoxical, rather, but he Is the man
who wants TO pose before his friends as
being on the inside in the theatre bust
ness. You want to go to a show to-
night?' he will say to his companion;
all right, I'll send you brace of seats.
Then he sneaks around to the box office,
buys the seats, asks the man to punch
them with the complimentary stamper,
and he then sends them to his admiring
friend by special messenger why man
came in here to my office one afternoon
with two subscription seat coupons and
asked me TO exchange them for compll-
mentaTy tickets with the stamp on. He
had promised comps to a friend, he ex-
planned.
mere - dilOtDCI 0OuSc lDdl pUZZlcu NE
somewhat when l first came up against
it. 1t is this: Every day the box Of
flee receives a number of postcards from
people the theatre has never heard of
refusing our kind offer of a box or or
chestra chairs for such and such night.
OF course, such an offer was never made.
And slight variation on the same
theme refuses with thanks our PROPOSE
ton Of an engagement with the COM
pany at such and such a salary-say $500
a week, or something rather fat like that
These are always written on postcards.
Just by chance one day | found out
the meaning OF this. l was in a tailor
shop, being fitted, when a big man swung
in and said he wished to order a suit
When the measurements had been taken
and choice of goods made the tailor, not
knowing the man, asked for a deposit.
oh, I'm afraid / can't give il to you,
he said. I've only got a few dollars
with me and | shall need them before
l go home But 1t will be all right.
And, / say, can you let me have q pen
for a minute? [ want to send a line to
a friend Then he whipped out post
card wrote a few scrawls, and calling
out, My good fellow, let your boy mail
this for me, will you? he sailed out.
The boy read the note. of course, and
told his boss that the newcomer must be
all right, as that postcard just turned
down a $5O0-a-Week job at the theatre of
which l, you see, am the manager.
Fairly clever way TO inspire confidence
when you want to go in debt isn't it?
And as for the man who declines seats
and boxes never offered. he does that
just to impress some acquaintance he is
lunching with.
This years special development in
deadheads is the newspaper man from the
west or south who is acting as courier
for a batch Of country girls who have
won the beauty contest on his paper and
who are being sent on trip at the
papers expense, VIII we kindly accom-
modate them at this afternoons per-
Torrance Sometimes, mind you. there are
as many as fifty beauties who are de-
sirous of honoring our show without pay
ing"
But theatres are not the only places
that have heard of deadheads. There
is probably no business that has not to
do with them.
There is a large cocoa manufacturing
house in New York that gets such letters
as this from ministers: "Please send me
a liberal quantity of samples of your
cocoa as soon as possible. My wife is
giving an afternoon affair next week. and
as she Is going to serve cocoa it would
be a great accommodation to us as well
as a good opportunity of advertising your
brand in our town"
drug manufacturing concern fire.
quently receives the following sort of
application from physicians: Kindly
send to the drug store whose address /
inclOse and who puts up my prescrip-
tiOns as large quantity of samples of
your quinine extract as you can spare"
Inquiry into the latter variety of APP
peal has revealed the fact that the sam
tons and that the practitioner who asked