AT THE THEATRE.
Reading edition
The first thing done by every newcomer is to deposit his hat on a chair, to show there are no hooks in the hall.
The startled lover hides himself in a special shelveless cupboard, kept in all houses exclusively for this object.
If anyone becomes a corpse at the end of the drama, the witnesses must all keep the same position until the curtain falls at least.
When anything serious happens to the heroine, she must at once take out her hair-pins, which are incompatible with sentiment.
The comic tenor can do nothing less than sing smart couplets to the young ladies, who learn them immediately and repeat them straight away.
Madrid Comico.