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Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-22 | Page 2 | Trick of a Theatre Goer

Type issue
Date 1891-08-22
Paper Brigham City Bugler
Language eng
City Brigham City
County Box Elder
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Trick of a Theatre Goer
Type article
Date 1891-08-22
Paper Brigham City Bugler
Language eng
City Brigham City
County Box Elder
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OCR Text Trlch of a Theatre Goer. A manager whoso path in life Is evidently evi-dently not strewn with rosea, speaking of tho tricks that aro attempted by somo persons who attend tho theatre, Baid: "The odd things that iwoplo will do to got what they have not paid for makes ft very interesting study. Last night a well dressed, apparently prosperous citizen who had purchased a fiO cent admission ticket took a stand down one of tho side aisles. A few minutes after tho curtain had gone up ho quiotly sidled Into a vacant seat. None of the uhIictb observed him. 1 did, but 1 wanted to study this case. When tho act closed ho walked out In the lohby. 1 missed his second entrance, but after somo scrutiny discovered him In an aisle scat well down to tho footlights. Ho hod evidently spotted that as unoccupied, and eamo down the aislo with other people wiio had left their places at the close of the first act. ills cleverness had been re- warded by tho enjoyment of the performance perform-ance from a $1.50 orchestra choir for Just the 50 cents admission fco." "Did you disturb him?" "Oh, no; that would have hurt hi finer sensibilities, and perhaps made an enemy of him." "What did you do?" "I jumped on tho usher who was on that aislo. New York llorald.
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ks7k3r/359477