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His territory was the reserved-seat section up in front, where sat the two mighty magnates. Jimmie's knees went weak, but he did his duty, and was tickled to see each of the pair drop a coin into the hat, to be used in overthrowing their power in Leesville! The hats were taken to the box-office and emptied, and the collection-takers and the Liederkranz singers resumed their seats.
Indignant complaints behind the scenes brought no redress; the box-office keeper, who did not know him as yet, said that they had sent orders for two boxes to his paper, and sent him about his business. "I shall speak of the play as I find it," said Lucien, nettled at this. "What a dunce you are!" said the leading lady, addressing the box-office keeper, "that is Coralie's adorer."
A benefit being given her, he announced that he himself would sell the tickets at the box-office, and he spent a whole day bartering his quick wit and his social influence, for increased prices. Such public devotion brought scandal buzzing about the ears of the two. But still Caroline would not give up her career, nor Weber his opinion of stage marriages.
The prices of admission were placed at extravagant figures, but the box-office was always besieged until the ticket-seller put out his lights and hung out a sign: "The standing-room is all taken." The gross receipts of these readings were two hundred twenty-nine thousand dollars; the expenses thirty-nine thousand dollars; net profit, one hundred ninety thousand dollars.
"A farce called 'Three Cheers and a Tiger, a Hoyt sort of a piece. The little Tyrrell is doing her tambourine dance to the music." "Never heard of the lady," he said to me. And then to the youth on the other side of the box-office window, "Have you any seats left in the front row?" Folsom always asked for seats in the front row. This time it was fatal.
I am willing to concede that a theatre must be made to pay, but I am not content to think that this splendid art is always to be measured by the number of dollars which fall into the box-office. Take Westervelt as a type. What ideals has he? None whatever, save to find a play that will run forever and advertise itself." She had dreams, too, it seemed.
"I must write him that Sir Cecil Arrowsmith enjoyed 'Who Killed Cock Robin? just as much as common mortals." Forsythe had paused at the box-office, and in my uncertainty I stuck to him as the crowd began to surge by. Arrowsmith's approach was advertised by the peculiar type of tall hat that he affected, and the departing audience made way for him, or hung back to stare.
Kennedy and I had just tossed a coin to decide whether it should be a comic opera or a good walk in the mellow spring night air and the opera had won, but we had scarcely begun to argue the vital point as to where to go, when the door buzzer sounded a sure sign that some box-office had lost four dollars. It was a much agitated middle-aged couple who entered as Craig threw open the door.
But the box-office gets there all the same, and that's what Mr. Dryfoos wants." Fulkerson looked up gayly at Mr. Dryfoos, who smiled deprecatingly. "It was different," March went on, "when the illustrations used to be bad. Then the text had some chance." "Old legitimate drama days, when ugliness and genius combined to storm the galleries," said Fulkerson.
These scores are sold at the box-office in shilling editions, and are followed most diligently out of anxiety, it seemed to me, not to miss certain points solemnly enjoyed by the whole audience. For instance, at the beginning of the 'Hallelujah Chorus' it is considered proper for every one to rise from his seat.
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