The unpunctuality of certain sections of the theatre- going public
is a -form of bad manners so- persistent as to have become proverbial. But there are degrees -of dis- courtesy which still astonish me. 'A few evenings ago I went to see " Argentina " at. the Savoy. The curtain was delayed, yet half of the seats in the front rows -of the stalls were still- empty when. it -went up. From then on, for a quarter' of .an hour or so; they were gradually and noisily filled. Some of the belated entrants did not even trouble to interrupt their conversations, -to the dis- comfort of those who had the misfortune to be near them. Managers, after all, have this very much in their own hands. They have only to keep the' doors closed during the progress of an act. So much, at least, they owe to those who have taken the trouble to arrive iii time.
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