TICKETS OF THE KERB.

NZ Truth, Issue 612, 10 March 1917, Page 7

TICKETS OF THE KERB.

The pavement speculator In theatre tickets, who buys a fow tickets for the oheapest reserved seats when a play Is drawing full houses and sells them at a profit In the street when people are gathering for the performance, Is a rare character In London. One enterprising follow, who very often combine* this speculative business with the hawking of chocolates to the pit and gallery queues, got himself into trouble with the management of His Majesty's Theatre during a matinee (says the "Daily Mull!') by entering the da&rs of the upper circle to offer tickets to people approaching (ho pay window. Hnd he been content to work outside tho house he could not have been interfered with, except for causing an obstruction, but na a commissionaire and a "policeman caught him trespassIng inside tho theatre doors ho was very quickly marched off to Vlne-streot police station. The tickets ho was selling were those at 2s 2d. Including tax, and m ho had been carrying on this trade fur a considerable number of weeks und getting ft profit of a nhUllnp a ticket, he must have boon doing very well In an tuiny business.