Stepping down to the footlights she tendered the
youngster an egg, but his mother drew back her child with a sign of
annoyance.
"You should let the young man take it," said Miss Bayes, quietly. "It
is unique for eggs to be passed from this side of the footlights."
A big fat man at the theater sat on his overcoat. Thus the little man
behind him could not see at all.
"I can't see anything, mister," said the little man plaintively,
touching the big man on the shoulder.
"Can't see anything, hey?"
"No, sir, I can't see a thing."
"Well, then, I'll fix you up. Just keep your eye on me, and laugh when
I do."
A vast and determined-looking woman wore a very large hat one evening
at the theater.
"Madam," said the attendant politely, "I must request you to remove
your hat. It is annoying this gentleman behind you."
The massive lady turned and haughtily surveyed the complainant. "Do
you mean that little weedy, undersized creature?" she asked.
"This gentleman behind you," the attendant corrected her.
The lady settled herself down in her place. "You will find it easier
and pleasanter," she said, decisively, "to remove him!"
A Clergyman once wrote to Edwin Booth, the famous tragedian, asking
if he might be admitted to Booth's theater by a private door, because,
though he very much wished to see Booth act, he didn't like the idea
of being seen entering a theater.
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