Life — April 30, 1891 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: who cares about it. The test is simply to go to the box office to purchase a good seat at the theatre's advertised prices of admission. As a rule this will be found impossible, but an accommodating individual is to be found on the side- walk, sometimes in the lobby itself, who sells as good dollar- and-a-half seats as there are in the house, at two dollars each. Itis not possible to prove that this arrangement is carried on with Mr. Harrigan’s connivance, but any one who sees the promptness with which the door-keeper accepts the speculator’s tickets, sold in full view of him and of the box office, would be of the opinion that if it is not done with Mr. Harrigan’s knowledge, somebody must be doing him great injustice, Mr. Harrigan’s is only a case in point, but it is at present the most noticeable one. There are quite a number of people in New York who have the moral courage to resist extortion, or who have the courage to stay away from places where extortion is practiced, no matter how great the temptation to go. They are fewer in numbers than the people who good-naturedly submit to imposition, but they Miss Crayon Sauce; WHAT A MAGNIFICENT BIG FELLOW WILL ARMSTRONG 15. 277 are increasing, and Lire admires the courage they show in sticking up for principle. For the benefit of this element of the theatre-going public Lire is glad to point out who are their enemies and who are their friends. There are enough of these courageous people to-day to make vigorcus talk about the managers who merit their displeasure, and it looks as though before long they might have sufficient influence to give a negative answer to the surmise in our first paragraph, . . . °TCHE spring and summer seasons at the theatres this year are more important than usual. Miss Vokes’s pro- duction of two new plays at Daly's will be noticed in next week's LIFE. Mr. Mansfield is to play a summer engage- ment at the Garden Theatre, and Mr. Mantell will get back to the society drama in his season at the Lyceum. Besides these we are having great summer doings at the Madison Square Garden, and at the Grand Opera House there will be considerable time given to the revival of such operas as “ Lucia,” “ Martha,” “ Faust,” “Carmen,” and the like. Metcalfe. | Hos hinl WATCH THE FINE SWEEP OF HIS SHOULDERS AS HE SENDS THE BALI.!—ER—IT 1S NOT QUITE SO NOTICEABLE IN LITTLE MR, SpRicos, 1s 1T? Miss Tother ( partial to Spriggs—haughtily): MR. SPRIGGS HAS GREAT CONTROL OVER HIS MUSCLES, comicbooks.com