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...Sumner has been with the UT ever since it was founded, back in the days when "Student Stage Smokers at Mid-Nite Saturday" were a regular part of the theatre's program. The smokers, which consisted mainly of rather ragged vaudeville acts, had to be discontinued after a while because of what were then termed "disturbances...
...hero in several crucial scenes. During an afternoon showing just as the camera focused on the clock, the theatre was suddenly split by a tremendous shrieking of alarm clocks. "The next morning our ushers alone picked up 25 or so clocks which the students left behind them," Sumner recalls...
During the 30's political feeling roared high through the University, and was noticeably reflected in the UT's audience. Three thousand students signed a petition protesting as "sword-rattling" the Hearst Newsreel which the Theatre subscribed to. Faced with over-whelming disapproval, Sumner withdrew the newsreel...
...easily swayed during one of the Roosevelt presidential campaigns, however. Political feelings was so bitter that hissing interrupted all newsreels, but Sumner merely ordered his ushers to inform all hissers that they were disturbing other patrons. One evening he himself noticed a man who was hissing "like a steampipe." He asked the man to stop. The man answered "You allow people to applaud don't you. Well then, I'm going to hiss...
...Sumner forgot the instructions he had given to his own ushers--"Don't argue"--and told the man to get out. Just before leaving the foyer the man shouted back, "Do you know who I am --I'm Professors----(a full professor of English). "I don't care who you are, "shouted back the enraged Sumner, "get out and don't come back." The professor did, and didn...