Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1912 — Mean People. [ARTICLE]

Mean People.

Henfy Russell, the head of the Boston opera, was describing his foreign tour In search of talent. “They were mean people," he said of the singers of a certain city. "I could do no business with them. They tfiought only of money." Mr. Russell smiled. “They were as bad as the man who discovered the Blank theater fire. "The first intimation the box office’ had of this fire came, at the end of the third act, from a fat man who bounded down the gallery stain, stuck his face at the ticket window and shouted breathlessly: “ ‘Theater’s afire! Gimme me money backl’"