THEATRE GALLERY QUEUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19927, 21 April 1928, Page 12

THEATRE GALLERY QUEUE.

ACTION BY MANAGEMENT. NO PRIVILEGE FOR BOX-HOLDERS. Owing to complaints of unfairness regarding the gallery queue at His Majesty's Theatre the management has decided to place the arrangement of the queue under supervision each evening. Mr. ,J. Farrell, local manager for J. C.' Williamson, Limited, interviewed yesterday, said the practice, complained of, namely, tho reservation of front places in the queue to those patrons who purchased a box to sit upon, had been carried on without the permission and without the knowledge of the management. He understood the occupants of an adjacent refreshment shop rented wooden boxes at threepence each to any person in the queue who wished to avoid the discomfort of standing. No exception was taken as long as the practice went no further than that, but he was satisfied, from the complaints that had been made, that those who supplied the boxes gave the purchasers also a front place in the queue. That practice was manifestly unfair to these persons who had taken up their places earlier and who preferred to stand, and in the interests of patrons could not be tolerated. "We will have a man stationed at the queue at 4 p.m., and will see that all new arrivals take up their positions at the rear of those in front," Mr. Farrell said. . "Boxes used as seats will have to be taken into the queue and not reserved in the front."