Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1906 — CANDY EATING OUT OF DATE. [ARTICLE]

CANDY EATING OUT OF DATE.

Practice No Loager Observed la the Theaters of New York. Have you noticed that candy eating lir theaters is almost a practice of the past? How often nowadays do you see men and women munching caramels duing the performance of a-play? Hqw often do you hear the merry bang of the chocolate machine which for a paltry 10 cents and the turn of a knob shoo.ts sweetmeats into the air after the style of a released jack-in-the-box. Are the matinee girls of your acquaintance in the habit of carrying boxes and bags of bonbons to the theater? Managers of attractions which play the various chief cities of the country assert that in New York candy eating Is not what it used to be and they wonder if the wave of popular disapproval which has banished the candy box froni Broadway playhouses will finally reach Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit and the other great theatrical centers of the United States. Once candy was sold In the lobbies of most o,f the local playhouses. Now only a few of them offer for sale sweetmeats of ang kind. Ten years ago the appetizing crunch of peanut brittle cquld be heard from the front row of the pit to the topmost bench in the gallery, but nowadays, alas, the peanut brittle has gone the way of the chocolate bonbon, the toasted marshmallow, the gummy caramel and pecan glace. Alas and alack! but those were happy days when the femininity of Manhattan feasted its eyes on the matinee idols of Onee-Upon-a-Time and ruiped Its dear little stomachs with confectionery—New York Globe. _