THEATRE MANNERS.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 13, 10 January 1924, Page 2

THEATRE MANNERS.

fiaM Sum!:,v evening about Ji\e lu i j tlru.l ai-tors assemble.! In a ],un-i j then Ire «. see a Green Boom Club play | Tl,e y "m lo an ideal audience. I Tbeir I.uiglitur was hearty a nil in Hu liyilt places. Their applause was gen ; OIOUH. Th,;. did noi cough or lidge; read newspapers or chat or look bore. : curing the performance. They did no ! 1:1 stumble into the'i seats, r read lag upon people’s toes ei 1 route. I A lesson or two is badly needed iei 1 many who go to the play, beat bangers ) programme rustlers, toughers, peopli V. ho oveialow from their own plae. into their next-.loot neighbour’s, auc Ami th we d u not represent the sum total of theatre-goers’ sins There is, let example, the man— it is nearly always a man—who wants te I get Old direetly the curtain has fallen loa an act. Nut only is Ibis bail man nets toward., the player, but also it spoils the applause; immediately one or two m ..jdc start to get up and go out others follow thorn. Then there are the enthusiasts who ; persist in applauding entrances I during important scenes. A plaes. Who has gone to particular pains t., Sink self in the pari is not iP. iaal: s . ■.; upon being instantly re cognised. Nor is there any obligation on the part of the audience to cheer -Miss. Gladys Cooper is she enters as raulf Tnnijueray at a critical moment of the play, or to hail .Miss Sybil 1 homiHke as .Hecuba directly she appears, I'owcyer line acting may have been, an actor should no! be clapped al the moment of exit if to do so holds op the net ion cm the stage. No one looks for absolute pm t'eetioli in playgoers ’ nun but. ii is no! a great deal to ask that some of the following irritating and unnecessary ways might bo mended; Coughing persistently, munching sweets, fidgeting, and criticising in a I cud voice.—Daily Mail.