AN EDITOR’S REVENGE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 686, 11 June 1875, Page 4

AN EDITOR’S REVENGE.

One of the Paris newspapers tells the following story ;—“ The editor of a small newspaper some time ago asked the manager of the Theatre to give him two orders for one of the representations of a very successful play. The manager, in an ill-advised hour, refused the tickets, and said that he was sure his theatre would be tell that night, he would not be so foolish as to give gratuitous orders. The journalist might come another time. ‘ Well, then, all right,’ said the angry journalist. * Fell your tickets if you like, but those two tickets will cost you dear. Be sure of that’ The unfortunate manager soon forgot the little incident, but, alas! the paper soon began to show that the editor did not, forget it. Day after day, for nearlyhalfa twelvemonth, the columns of his journal repeated, under all forma and with eveiy possible variation, the loud praise of the abnoxious theatre. ‘ The actors are first-rate, the choice of the plays is unexceptional, and the management is something wonderful. It were a pity that such a theatre did not attract a crowd of people every evening, but we much regret that the woedeu staircase that leads to all the placis in that admirable theatre should not have been replaced long am by an iron one. If a fire shouM breakout suddenly during the play, it would be near to impossible for anyone to escape; the catastrophe would be something too horrible to be thought of’ After the little newspaper had gone on six months repeating this murderous praise, the manager of the theatre, worried nearly to death by that new kind of persecution, was obliged, very much against his former intentions, to have the wooden staircase replaced by one reputed to be fireproof. The vengeance of the journalist was complete. The two tickets refused by the unlucky manager cost him LBOO.