| Show flox queries charley metcalfe alfe was telling some stories illustrative of the box office mans tribulations if it for some peoples dirty thumbs said he id wish the lord had made me in book form 1 dont put in much time in the box office but the few minutes I 1 am there is enough for a lifetime the average ticket buyer asks enough inane questions but what do you think of a man who sticks his head through the window and wants to know the name of a big steamer he saw going down the east river day before yesterday well my boy what happened this very morning and not a marker to the questions some people ask either theres the man who knows everything and wants you to recognize it man who knows nothing and proves it dud the woman who is nothing more or less than a perpetually animated interrogation mark why two days ago a man came in and told m all about the piece then being played in the house after gettine rid of him I 1 had to choke off a long breath to inform a fellow that the theater was neither a hotel nor a lodging house he said be was sorry that he liked the location first rate before I 1 had recovered from the fit he gave me a man with three baskets four children and a woman walked into the lobby be they a or anything inside asked the man no sir said L performance for mance at then aliat do you suppose that man wanted he actually had the stupendous gall to ask me if UP and his family go inside and eit down for an hour or so while they ate their luncheons new york world |
