Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — The Theater-Hat Question. [ARTICLE]

The Theater-Hat Question.

The theater-hat question is becoming serious. Now a Minneapolis man is suing a manager because a couple of women’s hats in front of him prevented him from seeing a play. A man who is so particular about a little thing like that ought to sit in the rear gallery, where the seats are raised on step-lad-dtrs.—Buffalo Express. Henry Hilbert, of Berwick, Pa., may not have chosen the wisest course, but he is doing what he can to start a great reform. He went to the theater, could see nothing because the two ladies sitting in front of him wore hats 214 inches in diameter, and has brought suit against the manager of the theater for obtaining money under'false pretenses. —Milwaukee Sentinel. The question of a manager’s right to regulate the wearing apparel of his patrons and his obligations to provide for the sufferers wilt come up at Minneapolis on the suit of a traveling man, who found himself seated behind two immense hats and who was refused permission to change his seat or the return of his money, though he found it impossible to see a thing on the stage during the entire evening. If he would only win what a blessed reform might be instituted.—Kansas City Journal.