MANNERS IN THE OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 6

MANNERS IN THE OPERA HOUSE

Sir, —May I hav e space to refer to the bad taste and bad manners displayed by certain people at the performance of “Is Zat So!” at the Opera House on Tuesday evening! The time for the beginning of the performance was plainly enough advertised, and one would have thought that all the audience would have taken care to be seated by the proper hour. Instead, a large number condescended to arrive at the very last minute. It was impossible for the ushers to handle then all at once, consequently, for over a quarter of an Lour, the rest of the audience were subjected to the annoyance of the shuffling of feet land the bangipg of scats, to say nothing of running conversation carried On in no restrained voice. Nor was that all. Some of them carried on audible conversations for the whole evening. This sort of thing is not only lan insult to those who arrive early and keep silent, but to the performers on the stage also. If one of the latter had stopped the play and given these people some wholesome advice, the rebuke would have been well deserve.d. I hope these ill-mannered ones will mend their ways before the next visiting show arrives, and not Jet the players go away in the belief that Wanganui audiences do not know how to behave. EIGHT O’CLOCK PROMPT