Riot in a Theatre.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1910, Page 4

Riot in a Theatre.

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With the official to nil com pleted, ix la rye party of' undergraduates inviaded the theatre at Cambridge and caused .serious disturbance. "The Thiof in the Night" was being presented. As a result of the disturbance two students appeared at the I'olice Court recently, Joi.i: Fn: Fornimau, 20. of Chrises < lege, was fined and costs for obstruction tho police, and Aubrey Cohen, 18, of Jesus College, was fined 10s and costs, for using obscene Language. The undergraduates took the circlo by storm, and began ragging as .soon as the curtain went up. There was such a din that the audience could not hear. That the "nag" was organised is evident from tho fact that some of the students were provided with motor horns and bird warblers, on which they performed, at) intervals. Popular songs were shouted, and buns and oranges were hurled on the stago. On the entrance of each actor the undergraduates yelled some more or less appropriate remark. Loud nnd deep cries of "Ha! ha!" greeted the appearance of the villain : and when the hero attempted to speak with a stage peeress with his hat on, a stern command shot out of tho stalls to "Take—that— hat—off." The "funny mail" of the piece was told to "run away and plav." The gallery had by this time fiecf>me thoroughly annoyed by the students, and showed, 'their displeasure by throwing down everything they could lay their hands on. Nuts, oranges, cakes, programmes, cans, and other objects wero used. The young men in the stalls wound their gowns round their heads like tnrhnns, by wav of protection, and n few of them clambered into an empty box for shelter.