Show THE PRINCE AT THE PLAY how ills royal highness attends attend tile the english thester Th enter enters the royal box is booked in the usual way of business and charged to the marlborough house bouse account the price is not hot inches increased effrom from the ordinary library tariff and the stories told about a nominal price or a larger one being paid by royalty only exist in the imagination of the papers who wh 0 invent such t arrad iddles sometimes it happens that a box cannot be got at the particular theater decided upon when this is the case it is put nicely to the party who has booked the royal box it if they could see their way to obliging his hia royal highness and the result is of course invariably in the affirmative firma tive the prince however is very reluctant to have this done and always wishes that the party obliging shall be as little inconvenienced as possible so much so that when told that the box has been conceded lie he generally remarks why did you disturb anybody on my account 3 could have come here another evening please see they are thanked in toy name in the rare c I 1 so le of a refusal representation is made to his rojal roya they try for a box at another theater when he goes to a theater it is his expressed desire to be treated exactly the same as one of the ordinary audience little displays of flowers bouquets satin programmed proe pro grammes etc are all very nice but the prince does not care tor for them and would much rather do without them another thing which annoys him is that he should be drawn attan at in i tion to by the performance on his arrival of the national anthem or god bless the prince of wales As he said on one occasion why should the amusement of every member of this audience be disturbed for or my sake bake this was at the olympia theater during durin 0 the run of fun on the bristol As aa soon as the royal box became occupied everybody was astonished to se sea a the orchestra suddenly stand up in the middle middie of the performance and begin playing god dod bless the prince of wales of course the whole house rose en masse every eye was wag directed to the toy royal al box and the applause was deafening the prince immediately left the box and demanded an explanation sir mr jarritt arrived and explained that it was only the of a too patriotic band conductor this concluded the incident but it was accepted as a precedent and the same intimated to ill the managers generally this is why you often hear people aarin say in a theater toward the close of the performance ad why there is the prince of wales over there in a box and they never played god save bave the queen what a shamel the prince always waits until the I 1 final curtain has descended before A rising ising to 1 leave save this is his invariable rule so 1 much so that he be has sat eat out the entire harlequinade of a drury lane pantomime there are three or four theaters only where he ever breaks this rule they are those no royal entrance and here the prince anticipates the final curtain by two or three minutes so eo that hla his departure will not disturb the carriage traffic of the remainder of the audience immediately the prin prince ceis is announced to have visited a theater the be booking okim 0 rises barometer like to a good heat boat this is in reference to the booking public but beyond this when his hi royal highness likes E a play he invariably ace orn commends mends it to all his friends in in my iny other ways the prince is in always thinking of the drama when he sees seea a b no lie fit announced tor for some well known artist who has often ministered to hia amusement or some come poor player who has bos fallen on bad times he oly puts his name down for stalls or b se ses 4 to a substantial amount london morning |