Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...when instead of a modest and becoming silence nothing is heard during the whole performance, but laughing and talking very loud, squawling, overturning the benches, etc.--Behaviour more suited to a broglio than a musical entertainment. What is meant by so ill--timed an interruption--I know not; for tho' it may be true that to Kick up a riot, is a liberal amusement, and particularly adapted to some ladies, as it serves to attract the eyes of the other sex I am notwithstanding, pretty certain there might be a more proper place than the concert room found out for that purpose, for I cannot conceive that either the audience, or the gentlemen performers an under any obligations to bear those impertinencies--and I have an authority to assure those offenders against decency that if they don't resolve to behave better for the future; the managers and performers will be forced, either to leave all the performance or be reduced to the disagreeable necessity of insisting on their absenting themselves from a place where they do nothing but give offence; or if all this will not cure the complaint, there are some thoughts of hiring the adjacent room for the convenience of such whose conduct will not bear the eye of the public.--It is presumed what I have wrote will not be taken amiss by the persons hinted at--it is not their persons but their follies which are become obnoxious.--While we are entering into laudable schemes for our improvement in the acts of oeconomy in private life, a hint for the better regulation of our conduct in public, cannot be unacceptable.--It may at least tend to guard us from those improprieties, which very deservedly expose us to the ridicule of every sensible stranger. This is the only end proposed by X. Y. Z. References to...
