THEY TORE OUT THE ACTORS' NAMES.
Majestic Theater Manager Presented
Patrons Mutilated Programme.
When Patrolman James O'Donnell went to the Majestic theater yesterday afternoon on order of Captain Flahive to secure the names of all employed in the performance, he thought he had an easy task, for he was "Old Jim to everybody around the place. But he wasn't long in discovering that if the playhouse people weren't afraid of him they must be afraid of the grand jury, for all the programmes had been mutilated. Instead of the list of fifty odd actors and actresses, Miss Fizz, Miss Ginger Ale, Miss Martini, Miss Sing and Miss Dance were all that appeared on the bill. And in the office, and behind the scenes, they told him they didn't know any other names to give.
Compelling the different employes to tell their own names, one at a time, was slow work, and not very sure, for many costumes were alike and there were many changes of costume. But when the evening performance came there was a straightening out for the panic of the management had subsided and the regular programme was used. It was a twelve-page affair. In the afternoon they had simply torn out the four middle pages.
