The Detroit times., 1917-03-26

~ are just wondering II II is there
ot3
" fcrrot to look or 10 inquire when
lmu we're hack last--funny that we
4 cHould have forgotten, too, but we did.
W axe wondsrins because we read an
me1els IN the Literary Digest which
n,ys Il II passing and, mostly, has
s rnssed
Oncs Il was q church, but they raised
- end of II well up from the noor'
hrousht in scene painter and they had
~ otags.
TIE aid choir loft took on an addiuon
& ~ several long benches and became
Inwy.
They called 1t the ''opery house.
No company ever ventured IN with
<,rnorn, but that Is what they called IT,
/ - ~opery house." and the Literary d.
80 says 1t has gone with others
uhich are making way for Palace The
1orn where motion pictures, three
nps : week, have supplanted the I'M
Gtnin one-night stands of travelling
m&xioal companies"
n ~ gone. Of course it's gone.
4 Il X was the requirement merely of
~ ongtnin day, we are glad we, too, hap
- - belong to that particular day.
: Wiu rot have passed completely UNI
y 1Asoo who helped to fill it. upon occs-
us, e who helped. upon other occa-
80. ut TO All 1t, have completely pass
80.
xhus were several ways of getting
1D II one we have In mind.
here was the main entrance, which
Ho ~ most regularly, perhaps, by the
11w u the weekly paper, accompanied
- mony msmbers of his large family
- advance agent, compromising his
rortnnce for the time being, would con-
t - u return for 4puffs-"
- w. used, also, by the kids who had
<llDd bills and by the town marshal,
~ authority of his badge, which
oieular privilege accounted for the
Inino1 campaign for that public Office
ory spring.
xhoEa was the main entrance, which
ns fhe front door, and there was also
h0ue pole which would let you
1o NE rear door Of the gallery--or
~wA, rather. until they wound it with
Gbod wire.
And there was another way TO get in
- Was to stand out in the hall by the
ir. where the man with the show was
80 tickets, and wear the forlorn anc
|ooeod look of q poor boy recently or
$3.50. with perhaps no place TO sleeT
t right
Onoe h . great while the man on the
~ would weaken.
Ncre often he did not, and just stood
-. the hardest-hearted of men; JUS
|ood there a. the great, unsurmount
1u barrier to "gettin' in" confronting I
- who had honored the arrival of th'
~ n town by skipping school
AZ times the boy in the hall would grow
rcuful. detecting look from the bar
~ that might mean "You poor boy
1ohout any mother or father"
1T right at that point the aged pro
E1fIntor Of the ~opery house." who knew
- ware not an orphan, at all, woulc
noot always come out and clear th'
rn, and the world became dark, dam
6nnd desolate place again.
~ was particularly dark, dank anc
1oolate because three of the actors had
III seen on the street during the day
dffne overcoats with fur collars anC
- cuffs; q report had been circulated
uund town that the property hist con
1ned three daggers, four revolvers anc
( = rkufFed man; the billboards had shown
~ 6uel between two men in white shirts
rtth blood on one of them, right at the
honxt there was to be great saw mil
<oeone and one of the local scene shifter:
4 M confided TO someone that the traI
1Cpr In the stage was TO be used for the
1Est time in the history of the 'opery
& koune."
Once In q great while an emergency