. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. tic critics, l;il)()r leaders, clrrgy-men and teachers. Ising setllernenis, .\.s. labor head(|uarters, ^. M. (.libraries and public schools as (uting centers, and lluongli , Ihc Inslilulc sent oiil Id iuinembers printed slips of diUcrcnl |)lay>.These slij)s carried an aiuioiuiccnicnt ofthe play, the regular price of seals andthe reduction to be obtained throughthe use of the slip. Iliey were issuedonly for plays wliicli had been selecte
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. tic critics, l;il)()r leaders, clrrgy-men and teachers. Ising setllernenis, .\.s. labor head(|uarters, ^. M. (.libraries and public schools as (uting centers, and lluongli , Ihc Inslilulc sent oiil Id iuinembers printed slips of diUcrcnl |)lay>.These slij)s carried an aiuioiuiccnicnt ofthe play, the regular price of seals andthe reduction to be obtained throughthe use of the slip. Iliey were issuedonly for plays wliicli had been selectedby the committee on selection. Playswere chosen by the school representa-tives for school c-hildren; other playswere endorsed for adults. The Depart-ment made no atleinjjt to issue slips formusical comedies, as the managers foundthat this type of play was either a greatsuccess and drew full houses at regularbox-office rates, or was a flat failure andhad no lengthy run. It is im|)ossil)ic to cslimalc liow iiian\of these tickets were used during thefirst two years. Roughly it was esti-mated at over one hundred thousand a. THE BEN GREET PLAYERS .Vr COOPER INION 240 NEW BOSTON year. On presentation at the box office,the sHp entitled the holder to a reductionfor that particular play and was acceptedas part payment for the ticket. Themanagers themselves assvmied the actualcost of circularizing, printing and dis-tributing slips. The slips, which boreserial numbers, were returned to theInstitute for purposes of record. After the first two years the depart-ment found that ticket scalpers weretaking advantage of this system of dis-tribution; that slips w^ere being soldfrom small cigar stores and other dis-tributing agencies for cut-rate particularly flagrant case wasdiscovered in which the manager of alarge cigar factory ordered quantitiesof slips for his employes and then soldthem for ten cents apiece to ticketscalpers. This necessitated a rearrangement ofthe system, as nei
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