The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
OEADHEADSHAVE
MANY RUSES
Shuberts Have Decided to Shut
Down on Them
Hereafter.
FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
FLAGRANT ABUSE OF PRIVILEGE
CAUSED THE STEP TAKEN.

New York. April 1.-THE announcement
which recently came from the office of
the Shuberts that the free list was to be
discontinued has given rise to considera bic
speculation as to the reasons. 1t seems
that fragrant abuses of the pass privilege
had occurred, even to the extent of the
forging of the signatures of Lee Shubert
and others TO fake" passes. 1t was this
last blow which decided him to dispense
Win tne presence OF the genus dead
mead from among the audiences in his
theatres.
Il think probably few people know the
qualifications Of the free ticket business,
he said. AS I sit at my desk there is a
steady stream OF letters and telephone
messages and callers representing people
who are all bent on getting themselves
and one or two others in to see the show
Tor nothing. And the reasons they give
why they should receive this courtesy
Wait till / tell you
There's the man who writes gushy let
ters praising the show and the wonderful
talent that he hears is being exhibited
nightly behind our foOtiights. He is an
assistant editor on The Gainesville Daily
InfOrmer, and he wonders if on his forth
coming trip to New York he might re-
ceiVe the trem sndOus courtesy. etc.
Bushels of these come in every day.
Then there is the unknown stranger
who comes IN with what they call IN
the printing business dummy; that is,
a book of first proofs of some paper or
magazine not vet published Such a man
will say that he represents new COM
pany forming to issue magazine OF
which this is TO be the first number, and
so forth and so on. and that they intend
TO include dramatic criticisms. Would l
find it possible to put them on free
list, TO send tickets to every SO often?
Sometimes we find il policy to agree to
do this and queer things result from II.
A story came out a short time ago that
an office boy working on suburban
newspaper was suing his employer for his
salary. He stated that all he was draw
ing now was many theatre tickets
week, and not cent in cash.
Some people in writing TO us for tick
cts sen three OF four letters, one TO each
likely person around the theatre-boX Of
flee man. press agent. manager and lead
ing actor OF course. all such letters
are sent to ne, and / am free to guess
whether the applicant did this to get
eight or ten tickets to resell or just to
make his chances stronger OF obtaining
two.
THE out-of-town editor who has come
to New York for a day or so and never
thought to bring his credentials with hlm
is another kind of man who comes in
and wonders if we would be so kind as to
favor him One cannot be too careful
with this kind because often he is gen
uine and IS entitled to what courtesy we
can grant him.
'But there are lots and lots of takers
coming in all the time. Just at present
there is q manicure girl going around
from one theatre to another, begging
seats on the ground that she represents
a southern daily newspaper. When she
came in here 1t struck me that she did
not look like a correspondent for any
paper, and | was interested enough In
proving whether | was shark or not to
have her looked into. She has a job on
Broadway somewhere-as nail polisher,
YOU know What do you think of it?
And l believe she doped out quite a few