“Go once or twice a week to the theatre; go to Bowdoin Square and Grand Opera; like love plays best.”
“Go to shows once a week; Bowdoin Square, Grand Opera, Lyceum and Howard; like funny plays best. Father gives me money to go.”
“Go to shows about every night; stay around and they would let us in late; hook our way in sometimes; jump over the banister when man’s back was turned. Like to see men get shot; like to see trains come on the stage.”
“Like tragedy best, where there was a hero in it. In the ‘Devil’s Island,’ the hero was a fellow in the English army. One fellow was maltreated and sentenced to Devil’s Island, but finally came out the victor.”
“Like war plays. Liked the acting where there was fighting and singing. Ran away from school to pick coal to make some money to go to theatre.”
“I like murders and plays that have villains in them. Got passes from fellows who go out after the first act.”
“Saturday night go to theatre; like tragic plays best, where the hero kills the villain.”
“Go to shows Saturday afternoons; like all kinds. I like war shows and heroes and all like that.”
“We had the best time going to theatres; like comical plays; like to see Irishmen and fighting.”
“Like plays with fighting in them best.”