Theatre Bookings
Sir.—As one whom circumstances compelled to queue for sheer necessities over a period of 14 years, I regard with greater abhorrence than most the inordinate length of time the hapless public is made to stand for a theatre seat. If shortage of staff is the advertised excuse it seems obvious that the firm involved should either yield up its monopoly or rearrange the duties of the staff available to better effect Preferential booking may by-pass the problem, but it demands a large supplementary payment for an unpredictable benefit which seems hardly in accordance with the highest business principles. This correspondence will probably have no visible effect on the situation. but I should like to put on record that at least one theatre patron who has had to spend one and a half hours in a state of suspended animation in the store concerned will certainly never enter it for any other reason.— Yours, etc., IST. April 24, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 3
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160Theatre Bookings Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 3
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