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Show "Supes" Want Ad CakHale Boys Hundreds of Them Apply, and Havo the Hose Turned on Them. NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 23, Several Sev-eral hundred young men, Including many Talo students, have been driven from the stago doors of a theater here by a stream from the fire hose. They had gathered In answer to advertisements advertise-ments for supernumeraries In a production produc-tion of "Carmen," A large contingent of students became suddenly possessed of a desire to lend ineir services to the production. The narrow alley way leading to the stage door was soon filled, and performers as well as boxholders could not enter. To relieve the congestion, the management man-agement sent out orders to the waiting crowd that the supply of amateur material ma-terial was equal to all demands, but this did not serve to decrease tho throng, and the few police on duty also found their efforts of little avail. The students whlled away the time with college col-lege songs, and responded to the police attempts to push them out of the alley with good-natured cheers, and remained Immovable. Finally the hose was brought Into action, and hundreds were drenched before they could get avaj They did not return, however. |