Show BEHIND THE SCENES on monday night last a cheap show ho house nee of the variety type known as the peoples peopled theatre P was formal formally ay opened in this city on commercial street to one of the municipal peace officers and a friend who visited the place upon that occasion the manager said in substance we propose to conduct a legitimate business there is nothing carried on here that is suggestive or degrading 9 in its character our performances for mances are of the vaudeville order no liquor is sold in the building if our patrons want anything to drink they must leave the theatre to get it we have no eight right to sell liquor here as yet but expect to be given a license tor for that purpose in the course of a couple or three months we have spoken to certain members of the city council in regard to the matter and have received the assurance that if things are run on the quiet for a time our license will be forthcoming JI i this information formation was given wholly unsolicited and the gentleman uttered his hie words in a tone which indicated that he spoke the truth yesterday rumors were afloat to the effend that liquor was sold in the building in much the same manner manne r as it had been dispensed in the franklin avenue theatre theair e A secret door was suld suid to exist ia the building through which access could be had bad to an adjoining saloon in which a large number of wine rooms were said to be fitted up and run on the commission or percentage plan by the female attaches of the establishment these reports reached the ears of some of the city councilmen they talked thel matter over among themselves and decided to visit the place the proposition was suggested to other members of the same body they too made up their minds to go and see the show if asi an they expressed themselves go 80 after the session of the city council was over last night several of those gentlemen visited the place they were kindly received and told to make themselves at bome home which t they hey aiu they were stationed in iri vate boxes in the first circle where they could see without being seen occasionally casio nally a sparsely clad female whose face was covered with chalk and vermillion would glance cautiously through the entrance to their booths and then beat a hasty retreat after watching the performance on the stage for a while which consisted of burnt corkland cork kand land other aimi similar lar selections some of which were executed by performers from franklin avenue theatre the visitors commenced prying around and finally made their way on to the third floor above the stage where the door was found some one pushed it open it led into a dark corridor into which the leader of the party stepped he was followed by the crowd through a series of winding passages and down two flights ot of stairs into an annex of the main building here were the wine rooms in which were men and women who were waited upon by liquor dispensers who frequently appeared and disappeared through the doorway in the past end of the apartment upon investigation it was discovered that this opening was at the head of a stairway which led into a saloon below into which the councilors councillors Counci lors descended from here the crowd pushed out in the tha street having made a complete round of the premises and received an ocular demonstration of how the busl business ness of the place was conducted |