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Updated: June 14, 2025
The police make them stand in a row, just as they do outside the box-office at the theater, and some come as early as four, and stand two hours in the cold, in order to be sure of their place.
Otherwise, the high-minded gentlemen that run our theaters will cut off my tickets." "Buy them at the box-office," said Hal. "No use. They wouldn't let me in. Besides, there's the advertising. We'd lose that." "Speaking of advertising," now it was Lynch, a young reporter who had risen from being an office boy, "I guess it spoils some pretty good stories from the down-town district.
He drew near with some apprehension; it almost seemed to him as though the man in the box-office recognized him, and knew the reason for his demanding one of those stalls. He got it easily enough; there was no great run on the new piece, even though Miss Gertrude White was the heroine.
And what a hurry and bustle always ensued to get dinner over and be fully dressed and down to the box-office before even the doors were opened, so that they could get first choice of the unreserved seats which sold at twenty-five cents.
That's quite two hours ago haven't I waited long enough?" Oh, Mag Mag, how can I tell him? Do you think he knows that I am going to be good good! that I can be as good for a good man who loves me, as I was bad for a bad man I loved! PHILADELPHIA, January 27. Maggie, dear: I'm writing to you just before dinner while I wait for Fred. He's down at the box-office looking up advance sales.
From an artistic point of view I felt it was good; from the box-office standard it was doubtful. I drew it from my desk on the third evening after Pyramids' advent, and read it through. He sat on the arm of the chair and looked over the pages as I turned them. "It was the best thing I had ever written. Insight into life ran through every line, I found myself reading it again with delight.
One day he stuck up the following notice in the theatre: "To-morrow the box-office will be open from three-quarters past two until a quarter before three for the payment of claims." The box-office was besieged at half-past two by a crowd of creditors who had failed to see the hoax.
This is a point that is rarely understood by people who look at the general question from the point of view of the box-office; they seldom appreciate the fact that a serious play which logically demands an unhappy ending will make more money if it is planned in accordance with the sternest laws of art than if it is given an arbitrary happy ending in which the audience cannot easily believe.
But I will not be beholden to them I will buy a ticket. 'We're sold out, said the box-office man, adding recklessly: 'Get a move on you; other people want to buy seats. 'You can't keep me out! It's conspiracy! He darted within, but was hustled as rapidly without. He ran back to the stage-door, and hurled himself against the burly figure.
The inspector, who was scene-shifter, promoter, ticket seller, and publicity agent all in one, and who was not equal to any of these positions, took French leave in the second year and ran off with one of the chorus girls, taking the box-office receipts for the evening with him.
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