Show 4 EXHAUSTED PATIENCE PATINCE To the Town Pest Editor greetings Let me first give my Indorsement Endorsement to t the campaign you have started Long have I been storing up my wrath at the tb er pest and I am glad of this opportunity to give vent to my feelings When I go to a theater this Is my experience ex ex- I work until 6 p. p m. m go home and eat dinner and then thet have plenty of oftie time tie to get to the show before the curtain cur cur- tam tain rises but just as a the Interesting part of oC the first act arrives arrivEs I have to get up and let the theater pest climb over me meto meto meto to get to his seat for he is late Usually this pest wears fine clothes and is tryIng trying try try- ing to make mae people believe beleve he Is a swell and cant can't afford aford to do like common people get get to the show on time He le ruins the first act gets me mad ma and I cant can't enjoy any of the show then He quit nult work probably at 5 S o'clock or didn't work at all al but insisted on talking to the hof girl t in the parlor half al an hour be before before be be- fore gr going to the fh theater hout S While I am burning up with wih indignation indignation tion i n at t him another e pest begins I to buzz sm Job Jo He lie Is sitting g garg arg just behind me and b begins telling all the members of oC his party part just what the leading man Is going to say the next few minutes for h he boas tingly says he has seen the play before Now the hero will enter the Ita stage e In Ina Ina ina a moment moment he says so loudly that everybody every every- bOd body can hear him He e Is supposed to tobe tobe tobe be the brother of or the oppressed little girl there you know etc Another fellow whom nature forgot to provide with wih any brains begins to laugh and talk some silly sI- sI nonsense to a tittering tittering titter titter- Uter- Uter ing girl about a dance last night while just at that moment a really fine actor actoris actoris is reaching one his g greatest efforts in a play play I have paid for my seat be because because because be- be cause I am very anxious to see eee this particular par par- pEr pEr- star In this particular play But ButI I cant can't hear for the pests around me Cant Can't t we arrange some committee of persons whose patience has hs been ex exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted and ad fix some mode of punishment for these pests S SI I would like to read what some of oC the theother theother theother other suffering theater patrons have to say about the theater pest EXHAUSTED PATIENCE |