SUPPERS ON THE STAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUPPERS ON THE STAGE.

RESTAURATEUR'S DEVICE. WHETTING PUBLICS APPETITE. Suppers are being served to actors on tho stage every evening in certain Paris theatres, according to a recent writer, with the object of whetting the appetites of tho audience. Pcoplo are thus prompted to visit a restaurant after tho play instead of going homo. This ingenious method of encouraging tho supper habit, it is explained, was recently devised by a restaurateur, whose establishment is now crowded every night. Idealising that the custom was waning, ho decided that, if something wero not done to make it fashionable once more, tho gay nocturnal eating-places for which the city was once famous would disappear. Tho restaurateur therefore made an arrangement with the managers of several theatres in his neighbourhood. They were to introduce into their entertainments in turn a meal served between eleven and 11.30 p.m., and supplied by tho owner of the restaurant. People, ho held, must see real food and hear the popping of real champagne corks if they wero to be filled with a longing for supper. It is claimed that tho scheme is working perfectly, and that, in this quarter of Paris at any rate revellers no longer begin to think of bed at midnight.