The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-26
10y House" Of
~ OIL Town and Some
Events Are Passing

W forgot to look or to inquire wher
~ vure hack last--funny that we
hculd have forgotten. too, but we did.
a Wo ere wondering because we read an
$500 IN the Literary Digest which
- II is passing and, mostly, has
capsd
Once Il was a church, but they raised
<ns end Of II well up from the moor
rnuxht IN scene painter and they mad
II stage.
ne old choir loft took on ar addition
" several long benches and became q
nnmy.
Thsy called It the "opery house
No company ever ventured IN with
$50. but that Is what they called IT,
xlr ~ocery house" and the Literary Dr.
- says it has gone with others
GAich are making way for Palace The
-. where motion pictures. three
- I week, have supplanted the un-
stain cne-night stands OF travelling
E>mtxicA companies"
Il rs gone. of course it's gone.
n Il was the requirement merely OF
onstnim day. we are glad we, too, hap
|rnoi 70 belong to that particular day.
b g w1n not have passed completely UNI
Fl $3.50 who helped to I'LL it, upon occa-
- q who helped, upon other occs-
ro. not to al IL, have completely pass
80.
Ihwo were several ways of getting
- the one We have IN mind.
horU was the main entrance, which
no uGsd most regularly. perhaps, by the
tw q The weekly paper, accompanied
- meny members of his large family
- advance agent compromising his
vtonce for the time being. would con-
D - = return for Apuffs."
~ ussd, also, by the kids who had
$3.50 bills and by the town marshal,
~ sutherity of his badge, which
11pufnr privilege accounted for the
$3.50 sampaisn for that public Office
|uy aDEing.
- ~ the main entrance, which
~ funt door. and there was also
1900 pole which would let you
~ rsur dor q ne sallery-ef
~ Suther, until they wound it with
$3.50 wire.
Ard there was another way TO get in
~ W. 10 stand out in the hall by the
rr, Where the man with the show was
1ng tickets, and wear the foriorn and
1900 look Of q poor boy recently or
nnod, with perhaps no place to sleep
t night.
0nee in great while the man on the
- would weaken.
Wore often he did not, and just stood
-. the hardest-hearted of men; just
IA there as the great, unsurmount
- barrier to "gettin' in" confronting {
~ who had honored the arrival of the
Hcw in town by skipping school.
N AZ times the boy in the hall would grow
opeful, detecting look from the "bar
~" that might mean "You poor boy
3 Without any mother or father
But right at that point the aged pro
reietor Of the "opery house." who knew
<0un were not an orphan. at all, woulc
mot always come out and clear tn
Hon, and the world became dark, danI
desolate place again.
N II was particularly dark, dank ant
eSoIzte because three of the actors haC
noon seen on the street during the da!
Euooring overcoats with fur collars ant
~ cuffs; report had been circulated
oround town that the property list con
k1nined three daggers, four revolvers ant
H. stuffed man; the billboards had shown
Y ) duel between two men in white shirt,
Uith blood on one of them, right at tn,
oaxt; there was to be great saw mil
ncsne and one of the local scene shifter
hnd confded TO someone that the tral
1oor IN the stage was TO be used for tn,
y ut time in the history of the 'oper!
house"
Once in great while an emergenc!
would come to the rescue and a volun