EARLY DOORS AT THE THEATRE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 6

EARLY DOORS AT THE THEATRE.

TO TKB EDITOR OK THE THESS. R:r, —Why is it that all "the companies coming to Hbe theatre now are making a farce of changing for early -doors, wi-en the crush i* the same, and more so, than under the old rule. The extra, charge ougiit to entitle the public to more consideration, by the companies placing an attendant an 'hour earlier, so as to avoid the awful crush cf last night, chiefly caused by hoodlums. At any rate, some regulation is needed at stalls aird pit if extra money is demanded for the. privilege of early •doors. —Yours, etc., j.E.a January 14th. RESPONSIBILITIES OF HOTELKEEPEKN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRESSSir, —In your .notice cf the death of a tourist in the Occidental Hotel, Wellington , you say '•twenty-four empty whisky bottles were lound in hLs bedroom." Then after the verdict of '"Death from acute alcoholism," "no blame was attached to t.lie licensee of the hotel. ,, ■ Kindly enligLten an ignorant woman ne to the reeponsibilities of hotel proprietors.—Yours, etc., AN ANTI-PKOHIBITIONIST. [The evidence showed that the whisky bottles referred to were introduced from outside the hotel, and witliout the licensee's knowledge.—Ed "The Press.']