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Show PnyliiC to Sec Hitnlf Perform. The following amusing Incident happened hap-pened to Mr. J. W. Turner, proprietor of1 the Turner Opera company, while at the Grand Theatre, Birmingham. Being rather late arriving at the theater one evening he proceeded to the front entrance to save time in going round to the stage door. As he was passing the ticket office he was pulled up rather sharply by the collector with: "Where's your ticket?" "I haven't got one," was the meek reply; "I m Mr. J. W. Turner," "You don't say so?" was the sarcastic rejoinder. "I've had your sort here before; be-fore; but you're not coming In without a ticket." All his efforts to prove his identity were fruitless, so. seeing that further urgument was useless, he was on the point of paying for admission when lie was instantly recognized rec-ognized by one of the officials, who, taking in the situation at a glance, came and explained ex-plained matters to the thunderstruck ticket tick-et collector, who was profuse with apologies. apolo-gies. Mr. Turner laughed heartily at the idea of paying to see himself perform London Tit-Bits. |