Show RECALLED BY telegrapher Attract attraction lon of a scene in a play suggests a story when secret service was first produced d in new york the audiences for the first week or two included a largo large number of telegraph operators attracted by the vivid description given of the scene in which gillette sends the message and is shot through the hand band interest in this part of the play waned slightly eolar as the knights of the key concerned when it was found that the telegraphing while it sounded very tery real to the uninitiated was nothing but a succession of meaningless clicks why it was expected aba that 1 there should bo be zeal real telegraphing an any more than there should be real killing on the stage was explained by an aa olit ola operator rb bently there lin lingers ers in the mind ol of all the older men in the business said be the memory of the telegraphing scene in oliver olivcr dond bond byrons byron s play across the continent in which a gennine operator was substituted for the actor long enough to tick out a welcome to any member of the profession who might be in the audience it was at mrs john drews old arch street theater in philadelphia about 15 years ago every night the man on the stage would spell out good evening boys I 1 if you yon are all feeling well rap out an answer on the iron support of the seat in front of you all together now one two three gol the rest of the audience were bewildered wil dered by the ticking all over the house and it was great fun for the boys and a shrewd move on the part of the th ae management for it attracted telegram phera in great force they enjoyed the I 1 puzzled expression of the people who understand the unanimity of the answer from the gallery orchestra and lobby of course the talk between the stage and the hause haus ewas was not kotcon confined to this salutation it was on all sorts of topics usually in the form of an interrogation with a request for a simultaneous answer the story has been told the younger men and whenever a play is ia produced in which a telegraph key figures they like to see aea if the experience will be repeated now new york mail and |