A controversy is raging (has anyone, by the way, ever
seen a controversy doing this, or heard of one that didn't ?) over the question of evening dregs in the theatre. The convention which prescribes it as a uniform for the tenants of the snore expensive seats is still, I fancy, pretty generally observed. Ideally speaking, it is a good convention. Only two considerations qualify my support of it. First, it is in the pit and the gallery, where a visit to the play_ has no distracting. social. sig- nificance, that the loyallest and not the least discerning Patrons of the theatre are to he found. Second, if the sartorial code were tightened up, the stalls, 'where the managers most need support, would be barred to many people who, living far from the West End, have. no time to go home and change before dinner. In Winter, tes, the rush I'M' the last 'bus, or the walk to the infinitely
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