Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Filling the House. [ARTICLE]

Filling the House.

The theatrical man just In off the road was recounting to the New York manager his 'qualifications for a box office poet. “I don’t see that you are any better than a dozen other men 1 can take my pick from,” said the manager. “You say you can sell tickets. So can they. Nobody can sell tickets If people don’t come to buy.” '~ “No, they can’t,” said the man, “but I have the knack of seating people so an audience of 50 people will look like 400, and the house will never lpok empty." “There’s a good deal in that,” said the manager, and he gave the man the job.