Dealing with Deadheads.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXVI, Issue 3453, 3 November 1915, Page 4

Dealing with Deadheads.

They know how to treat theatre; ticket hunters in America, as the following will show.

One of the theatre managers once ran across a friend of the slightest possible acquaintance who asked him for a "pass." ,

The manager searched in his in-side-pocket, and then shook his head. : "I'd give you one willingly, but I haven't a canl with me. I don't see how I can do it without my.

card."

The "deadhead" looked blank. Sud* denly the manager said :— "I'll tell you what I can do. Instead of a card, I'll just' write 'Pass bearer ' on your' shirt-front. That will get you in all right. Will that do ?"

The man assented, and the pass w*as That evening the "deadhead" showed up at the theatre in due course, ■ and the man at, the gate nodded when he looked at the signature on the shining bosom. "All right ; that's good."

The "deadhead" passed through the gate and started into the theatre. He had only taken a few steps when the gatekeeper called him back

The man looked surprised. "What's the matter now ? Isn't it all right 9" The gatekeeper nodded. "Yes; but you must give, up .'the pass !"

Mr. .James Schofield, one of the Senators for Natal, was formerly a at Rarosfcottonv near Bury* Lancaatore. 145%.