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Show Hard Knocks. Jim Johnstone, the famous baseball umpire, said recently in New York that baseball crowds were far kinder to umpires um-pires than they used to be. "This is true of theatre crowds, too," said Mr. Johnstone. "Why. with provincial pro-vincial touring companies in the past maltreatment was regularly expected. In fact, the companies profited by it in more ways than one. "I know of a company that was playing play-ing 'The Broken Vow' in Paint Rock, a one-night stand. The audience didn't like 'The Broken Vow.' and egg3. cabbages cab-bages and potatoes raine'd upon the "Still the play went on. The hero raved through his endless speeches, dodging an onion or a baseball every other minute, and pretty sore from those missiles that he hadn't been able to dodge. "But finally a gallery auditor, in a paroxysm of rage and scorn, hurled a heavy boot, and the actor, thoroughly alarmed, started to retreat. I " 'Keep on playing, you fool.' hissed the manager from, the wings as hs hooked in the boot with an umbrella. 'Keep on till we get the other one.' " |