8 TUB SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 12. 1922 X -S3 ' v'--cS' X CURTAIN AT EIGHT FIFTEEN (Copyright: 192S: by the Chicago Tribune.) 7 J E - t.!,jr .-1HJJX mmmm up I, WW!- ufc J' -V . . .1 7 mm: mm 'Its.- V Bloodrtein. the Venu of the candy counter at the rear of the auditorium, looking her winsomest First row in the gallery, showing three gallery gods of the present day. .-St: . V .'.V i " H " 'if 4 5 11 1 IiPwbJ Lady of the ensemble, tripping merrily along the alley that leads to tni stage door. Time seven thirty. - -V 1. V- ,: V-'. IS' T m afcL WW ft: i "Have two tickets been left for Mr. Myers?" "Won't you please look afrain and see if there aren't three seats for tonight left in Mrs. A. B. Birdsall'a name?" "What have you got way down front ca the aisle?" Etc, etc Fifteen minutes past eight is the zero hoar at the box office, where, for the time being, the line forms at the right, at the left and in the middle. VjI Orchestra leader ga jWjj ing with sad eyes at the Jt$ empty chairs of the late ''1 arrivals. IV f j m it it The ai!e seat lady who did so hope no one would sit behind her, so she could keep her hat on has fixed up the nicest little nest to ward off draughts, with her coat festooned over the back of the seat Each time she rises to let someone pass the whole thing slips down and has to be rearranged. And there are the bag and opera glasses that have to be . salvaged from the floor. The standee, resting first on one foot, then on the other, and then on both No use it's just as tiring cither way. Irate lady usher having words with the half-seas-over gentleman, who is going to finish his cigar in the peace and quiet of an orchestra chair or know the reason why. Thanks to the I. L. U, he is knowing it Lady with bobbed hair combing out the tangled locks before the curtain goes up. Repeats operation at the end of each act mi 1? ri.i 6 I'M iWff'it.iT-tiif9' . it J4 a A l A A