Sentence:  The widespread idea that before a first-night the audience, dressed to the nose, dines en masse at the Colony and proceeds elegantly to the scene in Hispanos is as fabulous as that which imagines it assembles at Lindy's delicatessen in yesterday's shirt and moves on to the theatre in garbage wagons. And no less spurious is the theory that, in either case or in both together, the <WSD>jury</WSD> is possessed of a remarkably rich acumen in the matter of theatrical values. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.