Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1911 — That Did It. [ARTICLE]

That Did It.

“The hardest audience in the world to play to is an audience of typical first-nighters,” said the theatrical manager. “The first-nighters are mostly deadheads, and those who pay their way are of the blaze type, hard to enthuse. I have in one man in particular who never misses a first night, and who, to hear him talk,'gets about as much enjoyment out of It as he would out of an attack of mumps. I put on a comedy last season that w r as one of the big money makers of the year. The first-night audience regarded it as mourners attending the obsequies of a dear departed. I met this particular one I speak of in the lobby after the performance. “ ‘Well, what did you think of It?' I said ’Pretty funny, eh?’ “ ‘One of the funniest things I ever saw,’ he admitted. ‘ln fact, it was so funny I had to read the jokes on the programme to keep from laughing.’ "