THEATRE PRICES.

Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 6

THEATRE PRICES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir _lt is high time the law, which has force in other directions, was applied to the sale of theatre seats, and particularly to such entertainments as the “ Marcus Show,” nowm town, it is scandalous that those , m charge ot the booking of seats to this show should be allowed to compel the public to nav high prices for seats which are nearly* the worst in the house. Those of ns who may he inclined to pay a high price once in a while, but whose means do not allow waste, have a decided grievance when, having paid the second highest price in the list, we are placed just three rows from the rear and about three seats from dhe side wall. If these be the second best seats in the house, what were the lower ones like? It is high time the civic authorities compelled theatre managements to clearly define with white lines on the floor or on the walls just where the different sections of the theatre terminate, and compelled them to adhere to those lines always. We do it in regal'd to weights and measures, as well as other things. Why net here? As it is, theatre managers can decree without making the fact publicly known that practically • the worst seats in the house are to be sold at exorbitant prices, and get away with it. It is high time -this was put a stop to. —I am, etc., Pathon. June 22.