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"He's rotten," murmured the manager, now busy on the margin of another paper. "But I dunno as he's any rottener than the rest." "On behalf of the profession of journalism, we thank you, Bezdek," said one of the critics. "Don't mind old Bez," put in the elderly first-nighter. "He always says what he thinks he means, but he usually doesn't mean it."
He is not a "first-nighter," who, by the light of the midnight oil, dips his mighty pen in the ink which is to seal on to-morrow's broad-sheet, as he proudly imagines, the professional fate of the artists who are submitted for his censure or his praise. Not that he is by any means an implicit believer in the verdict of the professional critic.
"Do you know what they call you, around town?" "Didn't know I had attained the pinnacle of being called anything, around town." "They call you the best-dressed first-nighter in New York." "Oh, damn!" said Banneker fervently. "That's fame, though. I know plenty of men who would give half of their remaining hairs for it." "I don't need the hairs, but they can have it."
The only man present was Edgar Tomlinson, who is Red Gap's most prominent first-nighter and does the Lounger-in-the-Lobby column for the Recorder, reviewing all the new films in an able and fearless manner. Edgar was looking like he had come into his own at last.
"That he's influenced by favoritism, then?" "I didn't say so, did I?" "You've said either too little or too much." "I can clear this up, I think," proffered the elderly first-nighter, in his courteous voice. "Mr. Gurney is perhaps more the writer than the critic. He is carried away by the felicitous phrase." "He'd rather be funny than fair," said Miss Raleigh bluntly.
Whatever one might think, there was no doubt that she firmly believed what she professed to fear. More than that, I fancied I detected a deeper feeling in her tone than merely loyalty to her employer. "Diamond Jack" Mansfield was known in Wall Street as a successful promoter, on the White Way as an assiduous first-nighter, in the sporting fraternity as a keen plunger.
The coat worn by Colonel Calhoun is itself nothing less than an evolution of genius. Mr. Hargraves has captured his public. "How does that sound, Major, for a first-nighter?" "I had the honor" the Major's voice sounded ominously frigid "of witnessing your very remarkable performance, sir, last night." Hargraves looked disconcerted. "You were there?
A mechanical jerk of his own legs had tilted the table and sent the knife rolling on the floor. Lawrence picked it up for him, drew his feet down, and tucked a rug over his hips. "Mind that box of Burmese darts, old man, they're poisoned. I used to be an inveterate first-nighter. Still am, in fact, when I'm in or near town.
This idee settles down on the Wolfville intell'gence on the heels of a vicissitoode wherein Dan Boggs performs, an' which gets pulled off over in the Bird Cage Op'ry House. Jack Moore ain't thar none that time. Usual, Jack is a constant deevotee of the dramy. Jack's not only a first-nighter, he comes mighty clost to bein' a every-nighter.
The audience was brilliant; indeed, though I had been an ardent first-nighter for a year or two in my callow youth, I think I have never seen such a representation of fashion and genius in America, except at the opera. Billy and I sat in the orchestra about the twelfth row and half the faces in sight were well known to me.
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