MADAME GODDARD’S CONCERT.

Evening Star, Issue 3665, 20 November 1874, Page 3

MADAME GODDARD’S CONCERT.

To the Editor. Sir. —At the foot of Madame Goddard’s advertisement for the concert to-night the following appears, and with what result I shall hereafter show : “ The plan of seats for the second concert, which will be given on Monday next, will be opened at ten o’clock on Friday morning, before which Lour no seats for Monday can be booked, except by season ticketholders.” Now, what are the fact* ? At ten o’clock I called at the box office to re-engage my seats, when, lo and behold, all the seats were taken. This is certainly not fair dealing. I write tliis simply to show that there ought to be as much integrity and businesslike impartiality in connect'd! with the proiessional managers and others engaged in catering for public amusements as may be expected in other vocations.—l am, &c., Henry J. Walter. Occidental Hotel, November 20. [Our correspondent is naturally annoyed at nis not being able to obtain those particular seats in that particular row from which he and his wished to watch the fairy fingers of the great pianist rattle along the keyboard. But some allowance must be made for circumstances. New diseases require new remedies; and nothing like the Arabella Goddard mania was ever witnessed in Dunedin before. Our naturally indLnant correspondent will probably ti id solace in the announcement in another column that the letting of seats for the third concert will take place unde- the personal snpervi-ion of “Mr R. S. Smythe, manage-,” a sufficient guarantee that everything will be open and above board —Ed E S ]