Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1913 — Don’t Laugh, and Save Time. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Laugh, and Save Time.

Bernard Shaw has issued a little “personal appeal” to the audiences attending the Klngaway theater for the matinee performances of “John Bull’s Other Island” on the subject of their “most generous and unrestrained applause.” “Are you aware,” he asks, “that you would get out of the theater half an hour earlier if you listened to the play in silence and did not applaud until the fall of the curtain? “Have you noticed that If you laugh loudly and repeatedly for two hours you get tired and cross and are sorry next morning that you did not stay at home? *'Do you know that If you delay the performances by loud laughter you will make them half an hour too long?”