Show DUMAS AND HIS BARBER of the practice of ink in theater ticket the practice of speculating in theater tickets strange as it may appear was started by tho elder dumas lie patronized a paris barber named for chor and one day this worthy while shaving the novelist st asked him why be did not sell the tickets given him by the managers of tho theaters where hla plays were produced to whom could T mil them asked the author of the abree musketeers why to me if you like replied porcher and what would you do with them asked dumas my business replied the barber continuing to lather the bronzed face of the famous story teller but I 1 give whenever you ask for them one or two are not suhl clent for my purpose responded porcher 1 I must have all your tickets and every day too and you will pay for them said the dramatist cash was the simple yet practical reply dumas at that moment was very badly in need of money so he at once concluded the bargain porcher who shortly after this gave up shaving and cutting hair made similar bargains with other authors and quickly became rich |