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The Washington times., 1922-02-20


Dear Sir: l have read with In.
terest the inclosed story by you, be.
cause nomenclature has always In
terested me. / am not sure whether
you based the list on a positive
knowledge of the Irish blood of tn"
players or whether you used the
names as evidence indicative of Irish
ancestry. In either case IL is diff.
ficult for me to agree with TIE entire
list. I only hope you will take the
disagreement as an evidence OF In
terest, however.
Surely Powell is not an Irish
name. I have always understood
that the players bearing both the
names Powell and Howell were OF
Welsh descent. The names Welsh
and WEIGH would indicate a similat
fact. Without any deep scientific
knowledge. although 1 have read as
much as possible on the subject, !
would be inclined to say that:
Smith is not Irish, although its
bearer may be.
Scott is almost certainly q cor
ruption Of Stuart.
Allison Is Scottish.
Waterman is English (Saxon).
Leonard Ia Latin in origin.
King is English.
Simmons is English or Cornish.
start is Stuart again.
Mills is English.
"Harbridge is English.
Powell is Welsh.
Fisher Is English.
"Tebeau is French.
Miller is English.
Evans Is absolutely Welsh.
Norman is English.
Petty is Celtic sounding, but /
think its bearer was a Hebrew.
"Roseman is Teutonic, II not Eng
lish.
"Lange Is the same.
Hughes is Welsh without a
doubt.
Cunningham is English.
Bergen is Dutch.
Deal, have understood, Is
variation of Diehl, which is leu
tonic.
"Owen is Welsh absolutely.
Yours sincerely,
r. NJ. KAUFFMANN.
No. 1915 Nineteenth 81. N. W.,
Washington, d. c.
And Just to rub it in, Mr.. Kauff-
mann has the following L. s.:
"Why not another yarn later
concerning the Welsh players Of
fame? Or one on the French Ca
nucks-Tebeau, Lajoie, La Chance,
De Montreville, etc, etc"
Now, ! wish 1 was as much OF a
scientist on nomenclature as friend
Kaufman says he is not. Then
might locate his name properly
and correctly. However, I thank
him for putting me right in a
way. Still l think 1t safe to pass
the buck" to my correspondent
and therefore l print his name and
also his address.
Gracious me, how can I hold my.
self responsible for saying that
Chief" Roseman, my fellow-player
on the old fighting Nets, who prided
himself for years upon being an
Irishman was an Irishman? To call
him a "Dutchman" wouldn't be safe.
I'll tell you.
Then again how could square
myself IL / said that "Dasher" Troy,
another old Met, was Hebrew? And
Petty, too! Not me, not on your life!
am only too pleased to hear from
friend Kaufman for the coming
thousands of explanations" are up
to him to straighten out. not to me.
I'm through.
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STANISLAUS WILL QUIT
IF WlADEK MAKES GOOD

NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-The wrest.
ling bout here tomorrow night be.
tween Joe Stecher and Wladek
Zbyszko has gained added signifi.
canoe by the announcement that
Stanislaus Zbyszko. worlds cham.
pion, may retire in the event that
his brother establishes himself as the
leading contender for the title.
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MICHIGAN LOOKS AHEAD
TO A BASEBALL TITLE

ANN ARBOR. Mich. Feb. 20.-The
largest number of baseball candidates
that ever turned out at Michigan
has reported to Coach Ray Fisher,
and with last yeaRs pitching staff,
intact the mentor sees another
Western conference championship
will be added to the Wolverines
string this season. Sixty-five men
were out for practice yesterday.
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Lands Berry's Job.

Bart Carroll. of Massena, N. Y.
who was center on several OF Larry
Bankart's greatest Colgate elevens,
has replaced Howard Berry. former
Pennsylvania star, as coach OF the
Hamilton College team for next
season.
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MECHANICAL COACHING
FOR HARVARD OARSMEN

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Feb. 20
Mechanical coaching has been In
augurated for Harvard oarsmen. The
device is composedr>of several bars
operating an oar blade. arranged to
show proper and improper methods
of rowing. Coach Haines said today
that he believed the mechanism
would correct many defects.
The largest combined turnout for
crew work at Harvard has been re-
corded with 300 men in training.
The varsity squad now numbers 162.
while 141 freshmen are signed up for
crew work.
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MCKINNEY Is PRESIDENT
OF POTOMAC BOAT CLUB

William c. Mckinney. one of the
veterans OF rowing in this vicinity,
has been elected president Of the
Potomac Boat Club: to complete the
term of the late John ]. Nolan. 1t
is expected that Mckinney will be
reelected in April.
Paul II. Brattain, former treas
urer. has been chosen vice president
to succeed Mckinney.
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Adath A. c. Wins.

The Adath A. c. defeated Troop
73, of the Boy Scouts, yesterday Is
to 2. The team.play of the victors
featured the game. Any 105-pound
team in the city desiring games with
the Adath A. c. please communicate
with Louis Goldstein, manager,
North 1875. between 6:30 and 1880
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cALIFoRNIANS GIVE UP
IDEA OF BIG TRACK MEET

BERKELEY, Cal, Feb. 90
Tentative plans for track meet
here between the University Of Cali
fornia and some Eastern or Middle
Western college April 15 probably
viii be dropped. Invitations were
sent to Cornell. Wisconsin, and
sther schools, but none accepted.
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He Seeks Weinert.

Now that Judge Lands has rein.
stated Lefty Weinert. Manager VIII
helm is trying to,sign up the south.
paw in time for him to 60 to Lees
burg, Fla, next Monday. Weinert
Is on the Phillies' reserve list.
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FLYING CADETS VISIT
WASHINGTON TO. PLAY
TWO STIFF OPPONENTS

Flyng Cadets from Lexington, the Virginia Military
Institute in town to play two Tonight Brook
and ey race ne T III r
either Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Institute
In
even Bacsburg to Virginia
Brooklanders
against the cadets in for trimming direct
Washington and Catholic University
addition they viii gather at Brookand
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WALTER RUTT WILL RIDE
IN BIG Slx-DAY JAUNT

NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-Walter
Rutt,. Of Germany, one of the
veterans of the bike game. has
signed a contract to appear in the
SIX day race, scheduled for Madison
Square Garden, March to IL, 1t
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CORNELL'S TRACK TEAM
FACES FOUR STIFF MEETS

ITHACA, " 20-The Cornell track squad has settled
scheduled
in in the weeks with special emphasis the triangular
25th with Harvard
Ne Red White athletes this meet last by the
fifths of with Dartmouth second
Harvard third.
who figured prominently in that
meet, them H. o. Chapman
the last and c. Carter who
honor in the run
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They Lose Money!.

James F. O'Hara and dad"
Bryan, his partner. are said to be
losing $4,000 every day in the Mex.
leo City racing venture and will
drop $4,000 in their effort to edu-
cate Mexicsns in the ponies.
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Palace 0uint PLAYS.

The Palace, a newly organized
basketball team. will encounter the
Grace A. c., five in the Palace Hall
gymnasium tomorrow afternoon.
In a preliminary game. the Warwick
and Langdon Cubs will perform.
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The pole. vault entries are headed
by Z. Y. Gouinlock, supported 10y
N. Atkinson, p. Stevens and X. G.
SenOur, the latter newcomer.
In the 35-pOund weight and the
shot-put Coach Moaltley will Sc
Iect his entries from n group, in
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To Play independently.

Ping Bodie, barred by Judge Lam
dis from organized. baseball, will
play in the independent ranks in
California this season. he says
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Candidates Gust.

Georgetown University battery
candidates were out for indoor work
last week under the direction Of John
O'Reilly.
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individual strike leaders-Britt SPosO,
IS; d. McCarty (Star). ls; Cshoon
Individual spare leaders = Malcolm
(Times), IS: d. McCarty (Star), II;
Baum (Star), ~.
INDIVIDUAL AvERAoEs-FINAL.
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Caseys Win Game.

Knights Of Columbus basketers
defeated st. Teresa by a score Of
% to % yesterday.
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George Malcolm had the best aver
age, 102-22. with Jimmy BOYD only
few pins below this, and Charlev
Warren, low man among the regu-
lars, had 1920. Thus, there was
difference of only two points between
the leader and tailender on the team.
Here are the final figures on the
lao pr,te.
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sos. past kSs. T T SHn
HIgb .In.ia .an,a I,.ani S,or ke..
Times, bbs; star, 557.
High individual sets-D. McCarty, s5s
George, 347; Warren, 342
Hikh single game--D. McCarty, 147; d.
McCarty 142:.w Clouser, 1879.
High flat games-Stears, 81; Allen, %:
Darnall. 81.
The Washington times., 1922-02-20
You Can Not Blame
Hold Out For His
Swell Head

There Is more or less criticism
of the baseball star who holds out
each season for a higher salary.
When one considers the publicity
and public admiration they re-
ceive, it is easy to understand
how they can easily get an exalt-
ed impression Of their own i'm
portance.
The bookkeeper, or the bill
clerk, or the salesman would b
demanding higher salaries, too,
if they picked up the paper every
day and saw their picture with
about a column of lurtd prose
which made it known that they
were the best in their line on
earth.
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Four kinds Of running hot and
cold stamps by simply dropping q
nickel in the proper slot. What
could be simpler7
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That Is his gift
to the country.
From now on the
u. s. will have
to hobble along
without his aid
but nobody can
a ~ ha IlH-bS
The Washington times., 1922-02-20

IN the wind-up Oh the season.
Tho .Flying Cadets" became IA
NOUS a season ago in football by
Aandily trimming the Penn team on
Franklin Field. Later in the year
they were invited to take q crack at
the Penn champions In basketball
and Jared badly. 1t was the only
loss of the season for the cadets and
they maintained that they are en-.
titled to undisputed South Atlantic
and Southern honors despite all other
elaims.
OF that famous 1s20-21 team three
hnembers are now performing. Fran
cis Summers. the giant Alexandria
We. Lad, also South Atlantic shot
rat title holder. Is in center. Bunt.
In. captain Of the team. and forward
- the star scorer, while Campbell Is
another who has made history Tor
ths team. Campbell came from Epis'
ospal High. ..,.
Thns far this season Virginia
Military players have won twelve
eemes and lost but two. The VIZ.
3fnln game was lost by two point
1,arrin and the Virginia Poly battle
~ q single point. 1t would seem
t6a4 but little difference appears In
he three contenders. Coach Leech,
8 former ". M. i. star, appears to
30 turning out q first class combi-
nation, which has made an envfabio
record.
TIA Cadets started off against
Emory and Henry by winning a IS
% 16 engagement. The Roanoke Elks
were stopped by 40 to 20 and Hamp-
en-Sidney by A to 8. Virginia Poly
was met at Lexington next and was
handily beaten by a score Of 80 to 20.
Since January 81 the Cadets have
met and defeated Elon College, st.
Johns College, the University OF Ten
nessee, the University Of Kentucky
ana North Carolina State College.
Virginia and v. p. I. defeated the
Cadets making but three defeats in
two years thus far and one by the
intercollegiate champions. 1t Is ex-
pected that Coach Leech will send
In Bunting and Campbell. forwards,
Summers, center, and Shannon and
Ryder, guards. In reserve he will
have Drewry and Saunders. guards,
and Kyle and Maloney. forwards.
Tonight's encounter and the one
tomorrow night are expected to
pf0H0 severe TESTS IOF tne NlSllOTb.
Catholic University Is playing at top
form just now and George Washing
ton Ia capable Of giving the V. M. 1.
Lads . stiff engagement.
Considerable interest L. mani
Tested I'm GeorEetOwn's appearance
In New York city tonight against
tho famous Crescent A. c. bas-
kefers. The Cresents and Celtics
represent the last word In basket ,
bah although the latter team plays
the professional style. Georgetown
Il q team that won thirty-three
straight games over a two-year
stretch.
My former college stars play with
the Crescents and they have defeated
practically al of the best teams in
the country. suffering a reverse only
with the Niagara College team this
season.
Tomorrow night Georgetown stacks
ND against the New York University
team and can be expected to show
plenty Of stuff as the home lads are
not as strong as when they won the
A. A. u. title two years ago, We'd
hesday night Georgetown tackles
Rutgers which Is an unusually tough
proposition and one likely to cause
the Hilltoppers a lot of trouble.
GEORGETOWN will wind up its sea
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tnlnBS imam tndt.
When a dime goes in one Of
those manholes, you might as well
kiss It goodbye. It's gone for
ever. Whether you get any
stamps or not you never witness
the thin dime taking an encore.
You got four chances to grab az
many different flavors Of postage.
II your favorite form of parcel
post is wintergreen, drop your
pennies into the channel labeled
'1-cent stamps" The result will
, be green, but you'll have to trust
to luck as to season of the year.
The third money sewer to the
left spouts nothing but vanilla.
Ham and cabbage can be pro-
cured at the furtherest slot to the
right. Ice cream and lady fingers
are not on the menu because Hays
quit to soon.
II he served his full sentence Of
four years you'd be able to get q
parcel post New England boiled
dinner by merely kissing a dime
au revoir.
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R. M. KAUFMAN TAKES
ISSUE WITH SAM CRANE
By SAM CRANE.
Didn't ! say so?

Didn't so!
Didn't predict happen when all the
of the Irish boys that had become famous
plotting national game?
thought though great kick would from those
whom had named.
Now just glimpse the letter have received:
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AVERAGES SHOW TEAMWORK
WINS FOR TIMES BOWLERS

The story why teamwork preferable to individual briancy
the winning Of bowling told IN the na aver
Times pinspillers won the title 80. =,
Times finished within the
b;ob average stood a a
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leave q mechanical heritage calcu-
lated to drive everybody nuts who
isn't already cuckoo.
The world never saw anything
to beat 1t. I should say not! It
never even saw anything to tie II.
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As ubudl, SOrneu Will De repre-
scented by a group of capable dis
lance runners, among them some
OF the crogs country stars who ran
for the Red and White in England
last winter and helped to win the
cross country championship last fall.
A number of men who have won
places in tho intercollegiate meet,
several who figured prominently
in the Oxford Cambridge Cornell
Princeton meet at Travers Island
ing youngsters will be entered by
Cornell in the contest at Boston
The official entry list for tho
Boston meet gives . good Idea
Of the personnel OF the track
team which will represent Cor
nell not only In the Harvard
Dartsmouth- Cornell affair, but.
also In the dual meets with Penn
State and Michigan, to be held In
Ithaca on March 4th and 25th,
respectively, and In the indoor
Intercollegiate In New York on
March IL.
In the As yard dash. the Cornell
entries include F. X. Lovejoy. E.
d. Niles, C. d. RICHTER A. l.. Limits,
c. d. Crozier III. II. Smith. G f.
John, and w. F. Waterman. Love-
Joy Is the most experienced sprinter
Of the lot. He finished is second
place in the hundred yard dash in
the International meet at Travers
Island last summer and has a num-
Der of other satisfactory perfor-
mances to his credit. This Is his
first year in intercollegiate COM
petition.
In the 300-yard run, the same
group OF men will be entered. In
the 600.yard run, Coach Moakley
winner at Boston, c. F. John and
intercollegiate point winner in the
440, II II. Smith, 8. Z. Thornhill,
T. c. Hennings, G.. d. Crozier and
l. r. Phillips. Thornhfil, who en-.
tered Cornell from Worcester Aca-
denny showed promise as a men,
Der of last years freshman team,
and Hennings and Crogzir also are
shaping up we'll for youngsters.
The entries for the l000-yard run
are headed by Carter, winner of
the event at Boston last winter,
captain of last falls champion cross
country team and an experienced
and capable distance runner. F. j.
Cook, who finished fifth in the half
mile run at the last intercollegiate
games and won the event in the
Penn Cornell meet here last May
A. E. Conradis. R r. Phipps and
c. G. Irish are the other entrees in
this race, while in the mile the
Cornell delegation consists Of Cap
tain d. b. Stricken J. B. Harper
and E. B. Kirby. The best known
in this trio is Stricken, who has
placed in the mile run in two inter
collegiates.
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The varsity relay team VIII select
ed from a group which includes
John Smith, Thornhill Phipps. Hem
ings, Crozier, Chapman, Fighter and
BIoomer.
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Men have been put in the insane
asylum for attempting simpler
things than that.
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Guiding II. ID. Toby. e. v. Gouin-
lock, H. X. Wagar, w. m. Robin
Ebersole, A. G. POppel and II. NJ.
Beatty.
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The intercollegiate champion in
cross country meets an dthe two
mile run, Robert X. Brown, heads
the list Of the two-milers. with N.
p. Brown, runner up In the cross
country championship race giving
strong support. The other two
milers are NJ. j. Ward, OF the cross
country team, ii. Greenberg and l..
HI StrattOn.
The hurdle entries include D. w
Kimball, who is rated as a first class
man in the low hurdles. but has yet
to make his mark over the high
sticks. A. B. fireman, H. n. Stone
and r. G. Watt. Kimball finished
second to Krognees of Harvard in
the Western A. A. U. championship
meets, while fireman competed in the
international meet last summer,
Watt was on the varsity team last
year, and Stone is a promising sopho.
more.
The high jump entries include two
men who are good for feet and pos
sibly better, J. p. Stack, who starred
as a member of the freshman team
last year and won the high jump
against the Englishmen last summer
and w. S .Lathrop, a point winner
In the last intercollegiate meet
Other high jump entries are p. B,
Nichols. A. II. Doppel, II. N. Stone,
d. w. Kimball, N. p. Garden and ],
G. Nesbett. Kimball Nichols, Dop
pei and Stone will also compete in
the broad jump, together with A. B.
fireman. Other entries including A
B. fireman, s. E. Thornhill, r. Stew
ems and r. G.. Senour.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
Octave Thanet.

rs there anybody living and within
: hail who is acquainted with the
work of Octave Thanet? We know
only that her vogue was Of another
generation, but our attention has
been called by y. L. Hamlin to a
similarity in theme between that
novelist's by Inheritance" and t.
S. Stribling's "Birthright," which
we recently recommended in this de-
partment. We have a notion that
Octave Thanet's books did not be-
come obscured unjustly, but if by
Inheritance" deserves resurrection
we should like to hear more about it.
The New York herald., 1922-04-23
"Public Opinion

NHE eagerness with Which we ap-
= preached Walter Lippmann'
Public Opinion" (Harcourt-
Brace) was largely dissipated when
we had finished reading the intro
ductory chapters. The total effect
recalled to our mind the reactions
of II. G. Wells to Henry James, as
recorded in Boon" We do not re-
member the way Wells phrased it,
but he said that reading Henry
James was a good deal like entering
massive cathedral and observing
an elaborate ceremony leading up to
the deposit of pea upon the altar.
The analogy is not exact, for the
reason that it was. of course, Henry
James's manner Of expression to
which Wells was objecting. Mr..
Lippmann's style is as clear and
forceful as was that of Henry
James's distinguished brother. Our
objection is that he has taken in
finite pains for the marshalling OF
illustrations and fluctuations of a
few rather obvious truths. He ac-
complishes the deceptive effect of
the obvious being arrived at by un-
sparing analysis and deduction.
Mr.. Lippmann is at great pains to
show US that our knowledge of what
is going on in the world comes to us
often from sources far removed from
our own personal contacts; that we
carry pictures in our heads of the
world outside which it is the business
of propaganda of various kinds to
change; that our apprehension is
deeply controlled by the stereotypes
of men and nations and movements
which we have in our minds.
After perceiying the elaborate
groundwork upon which the author
had erected these deductions. which
We imagined were the property OF
most persons with a modicum of in
telligence. we had not the fortitude
to finish the book.
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The Whispering Gallery

which he delighted so much, and
there are some fine bits Of burlesque
and satire. We enjoyed the Gilded
Fairy Tales (reyised and regilded
for comprehension by the children of
the very rich) so that Little Red
Riding Hood tells the wolf: 81 am
going to see my grandmother. and
carry her a filet and a little pot
Of foies gras from my mamma"
And we liked B. L. It's explana-
tion of why he preferred Havelock
Ellis TO "Jurgen." This peculiar
and unliterary preference of ours"
he says. may be due to the fact
job print we were obliged to read
the proofs of great many medical
works. made up largely of Case i,
a young man of twenty-eight,'
Case 2, a young woman of thirty
&C. These things were instructive
and sometimes interesting. But
when Case i is expanded to a novel
OF three or four hundred pages, or
Case % expressed in the form of
hectic vers libre, a feeling of lassi-
tude comes Ger us which is more
or less akin to pain"
A paragraph we wish Sherwood
Anderson would ponder over.
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In Which We Are Convinced Eighteenth Cen
tury London Makes New York Appear the
Metropolis of Lethargy, and in Which, We
Hail The So-Called Human Race
BY DONALD ADAMS.

one of the actors discharged. There
was great rumpus in the theater
at Edinburgh because the audience
did not like the way in which the
parts had been cast. One actor whose
lawsuit against his wife was a mat:
ter of public condemnation was
pelted off the stage.
The reason why patrons were for
ever playing in mob scenes of their
own lay largely in the custom of ac-
tors to bring their quarrels and
grievances directly before the public.
They wrote pamphlets when they
felt they were not being paid enough
these were individual complaints;
they could not agree among them
selves which parts they should play.
and called upon the public to decide.
Patrons rioted over such questions
as these and they rioted over the
scale of admission prices.
Had the press agent, as we know
him, existed then, his cup of con-
tentment would always have been
full. Suppose We could have Elsie
Ferguson and Ethel Barrymore wag-
ing a bitter battle in the papers for
the right to play a new part.
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The Tyrant Audience.

"HE audience" writes Prof
Thaler, "still rules the ulti-
mate destiny of the stage, but it
is no longer a tyrannical mob,
ready to howl down plays and to de-
stroy playhouses at the bidding of
any faction momentarily in control,
or indeed. for no reason at all, ex-
cept to show in brutal fashion that
it is master. Take. for instance, the
following notice from a newspaper
of 1862:
Thursday night there was a
great riot at Covent Garden Play
house, without the least plea or pre-
tense whatever, occasioned by the
gentry in the upper gallery calling
for a hornpipe. though nothing of
the sort was expressed in the bills.
They went so far as to throw quart
bottle and two pint bottles upon the
stage, which happily did no mischief,
but might have been productive of a
great deal.'"
There We're other riots at Covent
Garden because the audience wanted