Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Latest Theatrical Dodge. [ARTICLE]

Latest Theatrical Dodge.

Well, we’ve struck it at last, says Cholly Knickerbocker in the New York Recorder. In an experience of many years I have seen all sorts of advertising dodges, good, bad and indifferent, but for pure, low-down and so-I-get-the-money thoroughness this is the worst, and It is being practiced at a reputable Broadway theater at that. Guests at the various hotels have been receiving perfumed and delicately tinted missives In feminine handwriting, assuring the recipient that it is the writer’s most heartfelt desire to make his acquaintance, but that, having no mutual friends, it has been a matter of some difficulty. Of course, the writer is coy, and wouldn't vralk up to the gentleman on the street and grab him by the lapel of his coat, so she states the evening she will be in a certain theater, sitting in a certain row. Nine times out of ten the Jay endeavors to buy a seat in that row, and, failing, buys a seat anyhow, and spends the rest of the evening trying to discover who wrote him the letter. I have heard of a good many schemes, but this is about as near an approach to bunco as ever came under my notice.