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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
Student Psychology
ALEC TREVOR stood outside the
The next night Alec hired the local Stonegate theatre and watched constable to try to keep order. But the patrons file out, counting as fast the local constable couldn't be all over as he could. When the last of them had the theatre at once, and the boys wel- gone he figured - quickly. As near comed a living target for their" ripe as he could reckon there had been 800 tomatoes.
in to-night's audience. Multiply that Alec kept the local constable on duty by thirty cents and you get $240, and for three nights, then he closed the multiply that by seven shows. a week theatre for two days. During that and you get a gross weekly take of time he had the portable screen remov- almost $1700,
ed. This was before talking pictures,
Alec whistled under his breath. Not and it was a simple and cheap matter bad. Not bad at all. Then for the to paint a white screen on the bare hundredth_time he tried to puzzle out wall.
why Joe Miller, the present owner, After that Alec had some handbills wanted to sell. Miller wasn't rich. He printed. The handbills announced that liked the theatre "game. His set-up hereafter the policy of the theatre here was perfect. Stonegate was e would be changed. There would be one college town. Nine months of the year show beginning at seven, which was you had a potential audience of more especially for students. They were wel- than 3000. The other three months come to come and throw as many you closed up shop and took a vaca- things as they wanted. The early tion.
show would also give the students u Miller wanted to sell. Why? Alec's chance to see the picture and still have entire savings could just about cover time to study later in the evening. All the price Miller was asking. He others but, students were invited at | couldn't afford to buy a white ele- their own risk.
phant.
The second showj: beginning at nine,
!
It
The next day Alec checked on all of was for professors and townspeople, and the figures. Miller had given him. The the management would appreciate rent. cost of power, cost of pictures. if any students attending would con-
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
salaries, and other incidentials. They duct themselves in an orderly manner. were all accurate:: Alec went over to It was excellent paychology.,
The
the theatre after that evening's show. students appreciated. what was being
"I've another party interested," Mil- done for them. The absence of the con ler greeted him, "This is your last stable was a gesture in itself that won chance."
their approval. It was like being met "I'll take it," Alec said.
half way, and even college students They put the deal through the next have a sense of hofiour. morning. Miller spent the day show- During the remainder of the school ing Alec the ropes. Then he left. A term things went along blissfully. sense of pride and well-being possess. Each morning. Alec washed off his ed Alec. This was his first enterprise, painted screen, and at the conclusion the first time he had been boss)
of each first show in the evening he
-..
The picture scheduled for that even howered the silver screen for the ing was "Fast Show", a skiing comedy, townspeople, Alec was satisfied and and a good crowd turned out. The proud. He knew if he put the boys on final count, showed that there had been their honour, he could depend upon almost a thousand in the audience. them to play fair. Aleo felt goodnes
Hank Barber Wasn't so sure. Hank Fast Snow played for three days and hadn't gone to college. He didn't have wasy followed by “No Happy, Family","much use for students. When next a drama. That was the night Alec years crop of Freshmen came in, he discovered why Miller had winted to said, the same thing would happen. sell. The audience, 190. per agent – of.
which were college students, didn't like Hank was right. It did. For about the show and they let their attituded a week. Then something happened. become so loudly known that those in Those students who liked to attend the the audience who weren't college atu orderly second shown got together and dents had to len When the show marched onto the dormitories where was over Alec discovered, he'd have to lived the ringleaders of the new tomato buy a new screen, the one, which had throwers. They overpowered them and been, in use was so bespattered with carried them down to the river and things the playful college boys had threw them in. From that day for- thrown.
ward, there was no further disorder
seemed that most of the students at-
Alec got the rest of the facts from at the 9 o'clock show. Hank Barker, his head usher. It Alec smiled at his chief usher. “You tended the local theatre bannuse it of can depend upon students if you put them on their honour and give them fered a swell chances to janaash their the responsibility he said. emotions. Whenever they didn't likeja (Released by The Associated News- picture, which frequent they did papars).
their best to wreck the place. Pro-
fessors and townspeople quit the field
of metión. Millen, bad kept himself ||
broken buying new screens. And the PRINCE PAUL
couldn't do anything, about it because e
if he objected the students would boy LUNCHES
cott him/he
Alecia mouth, set grimlys He couldn't afford
there
these youni
piritjthat...
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