Show I 1 L A SHREWD APPEAL FOR ADVICE I 1 I 1 0 o 1 I one feature of a theatrical performance now running in new york has I 1 led to a heated discussion among critics and churchgoers church goers and thia this in I 1 turn has led to the novel idea of letting the audience settle the controversy I 1 by actual ballot money mad Is the title of the play and in the lie third 1 I 1 act occurs a prayer in the negro dialect uttered by a colored nurse the al critics and many of the religiously inclined patrons of the playhouse want this part expunged from the authors text the tile manager on ort the contrary I 1 believes that the public prefer the play as it is me but wilh that ever ready desire to d please so characteristic of the successful I 1 manager and not without a some 0 0 I 1 1 good business shrewdness as an all advertiser f ver tiser the tho proprietor has come out with the announcement that on a certain I 1 le evening velling every person who goes to I 1 11 see amney mad will receive two ballots AI one tor for the retention of the prayer I 1 1 the other for the omission each voter will bo be expected to write bis bin name I 1 on one of the ballots and on leaving ak 1 the theatre to deposit the ballot thus signed in a box that will be provided at the door the result of the vote 11 will be announced with the names of I 1 T I 1 the voters and the prayer will be continued or dropped as the majority elect Blean meanwhile while the seats tor for the I 1 1 interesting session are going at a live 1 rate and a full bouse house is assured I 1 not only are opponents odthe of the prayer and friends of the prayer using their I 1 influenza to secure the attendance of their respective sympathizers but the 1 great american public gratified at A the opportunity of thus passing a I 1 weighty and final opinion upon a mat e 1 A 4 I 1 tor ter whose onla interest lote reat to them is its do co cavelty velty are over one another in their haste to buy tickets all of which puts money in the managers purge puree advertises hia his performance and cannot hurt bia his play |