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Dingy London Theaters

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Day
4
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The theaters in London hic color and spirit either by day or nig-ht. They are dreary places to look at and difiicult to get into, for you either have to go underground or upstairs to see a play. As a rula they are not attractive until you rat into them, but there ia an air of comfort about all the surroundinga that makes you contented when you pet there. The bar-room privileges are abimdant, and you can have a drink bronght to your seat or an ice foryour .nrl without going out. In iact, they do not permit you to leave a playhou.se in London without chargfing for return. They provide everv thing on the inside and expect you to patronlze them. Yet no one :i bust-s these privileges, and neither men nor women get funny because they are allowed to have what they want without leaving the theater. These linglish woinen and men are very much in love with their stomachs, and food and liquor play a very eminent part ín the eeonomy of thisnation. As already stated, the theaters are mostly underground; some of them entirely so, and they bear no eomparison whatever to the American play-houses for beauty, but in comfort they can give us point's. The soats are roomy, the aisles wide and the attendance as perfect as it can be. That is probably because pretty girls are tlie ushers instead of boys. Tlie passages and singular by ways by which you get in and out set the average American wild with apprehension, lest he be burnert up or murdered in case of a panio. The new theaters novv being constructed change this condition of affairs and give you more of American playhouse than they have ever known in the Britisb. capital. No matter how big the kick among the actors and actresses about American theaters, the London houses are no eomparison to them so f ar as comfort for the players is concerned. The audience, however, fares better and the people whopay the cheap prices are just as well off as those who buy the most expensive scats known as the

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