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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 973, 29 October 1908, Page 23

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The theatre is yet too frequently mistaken hy'occasional unintellectual visitors-for a, conversational lounge (says the “Australasian”). It will be necessary some evening to go a little further than the scowl direct or the reproving “hush” before the unmitigated nuisance is quite suppressed. Sometimes the only charitable conclusion is that the offenders have dined rattier well than wisely, but they are not on that account to be endured' in silence. Some night a manager, with the moral courage to request such “bounders” openly and audibly to leave the theatre on the instant, will receive such an approving demonstration from the audience as will not the less surprise than please him. In politics there is a punishment for offenders known as “naming.” It may become necessary in order to effectually suppress the theatrical nuisance. It is well known is Auckland more’s the pity.