HIRED ESCORTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8776, 2 April 1907, Page 1

HIRED ESCORTS.

lii New York it is seriously proposed to organise moans by which old maids or lone widows can call up suitable male escorts by telephone in case they desire to attend a theatre. It has been discovered, [writes tho Daily Telegraph correspondent, that there are hundreds of [women strangers in apartments and hotels who are simply yearning to go to tho play if they can only find obliging young men to pilot thorn, and so from tonight until further notice a dozen handsome, well-behaved young men will bo lined up in the lobby of [the Lyric Theatre at New York. They will wear blue uniforms and white gloves, and in bold letters [on their cups will bo the words, “Lyric Theatre Escort.”

These geutlomou will bo on hire at 8s per head, and prospective patrons may have them waiting at the vestibule door within 20 minutes aider calling np the theatre on the telephone. They will bo a boon to timid old maids no loss than to ooy debutantes. They have been taught to say “Yes, miss,” and “No, mam,” and to look well after their charges. They will not ha sworn as special policemen, so that they will not ho allowed to carry a. truncheon, bat once an unattached playgoer is placed in their custody the theatre will guarantee safe delivery. ‘ ‘I have selected those geutlomou, ’ ’ said the Lyric manager, “from a bunch of 400 applicants. All have convinced mo that they are highly educated. They have certificates of good character. They will he gentlemen that any lady might bo proud to have as her escort. I got the idea from an old maid who was a groat admirer of Sarah Bernhardt. ’ ’

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