THIRTY HOURS’ VIGIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3264, 8 July 1911, Page 2

THIRTY HOURS’ VIGIL.

AT DIM'DV LANE THEATRE. A grey haired little old woman settled herselt comfortably on a camp stool outside the amphitheatre doors of Dairy Lane, cheerfully prepared to wait thirty hours for >hc opening of the doors for the recent command performance of Money. She was provisioned for an all night and day sitting. ■I wouldn t miss this performance of Money for anything,” said the old playgoer enthusiastically, “forty years ago i saw Marie Wilton, who is now Lady Bancroft, in the revival at the old Prince of Wales’s Theatre, and 1 determined if 1 had to wait two days and nights 1 would see it again. “It is not the first time I have waited all night outside Dury Lane Theatre. I was here for the Nellie Barren benefit which was a matinee, and I came then before midnight to get a good place. I went to poor Nellie’s funeral. There are few of the old players left now. “Sir Charles Wyndham and Sir John Hare when they passed into the theatre just now for the dress rehearsal of Money stopped to speak to me. I have seen them many a time, and I told them so. “I shall not be cold through the night. I have a fur here to wrap round my throat, and a good warm cloak, apd I have some refreshments in a bag,” As the afternoon passed the throe' early arrivals were joined by others and a line of patient playgoers spread along the iron railings in Bussell Street towards the stage door. At 6 o’clock nearly a score of people wore gathered outside, and there were still 2o weary hours oil’ waiting in front of them —a prospect which did not seem to daunt them in the slightest.