A THEATRE NUISANCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 4

A THEATRE NUISANCE.

THE JiATE-COMER. It is astonishing how little consideration late-comers to the theatre have for those who have not so offended. Ladies who would never rlrenm ordinarily of giving offence , think nothing of scrambling past half-a-dozen feared persons in the half-light of a darkened theatre to gain their seats in the centre of a block, and that without a woni of apology, though (hey might have helped to spoil the whole scene for Ihofe disturbed. This nuisance was very bad at the Opera House on Saturday. In Shakespeare more than in any other class of play it is almost essential that every word should be heard as tho text is at times rather involved, though easily comprehensible if the entire sentence be heard. This was hardly possible for ninny peonli' in the dresscircle and stalls vit "Hamlet." The management: freely advertised the. fact that the performance would start at 7.1.). As a matter of fact, it did not start until ten minutes later, yet there were dozens of reserved seat holders who came scrambling for their scats after tho curtain ro;.i\ to the intense annoyance of others. So aggravating is this nuisance that the management "has decided that people who are not. in their seats nt 7.45 p.m. sharp must wait until the end cf the first .-cerfe I'not act) before proceeding to their scats. This is only fair to tho:-e who do the right thing. Another nuisance obscrvab'e oi" Saturday evening was (he number pf prnple who persisted in chatlering nmong't. themselves whilst n scene was being enacted on the stage.