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Show Mean People. Henry Russell, the head of the Eos-ton Eos-ton opera, was describing his foreign '.our in search of talent. "They were mean people," he s;i:J of the singers of ft certain city. "' could do no business with them. They thought only of money." x Mr. Russell smiled. "They were as bad as the man who discovered the Blank theater fire. "The first intimation the box office lad of this fire came, at the end ol '.he third act, from a fat man w'10 Dounded down the gallery stairs, stuck his face at the ticket windo and shouted breathlessly: "'Theater's afire! Gimme me run" ey back!' " |