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...students noticed Senator Sumner, made conspicuous in his perch by a shining plug hat which he had forgotten to remove. With rhythmic regularity, feet began to pound. Sumner bowed deeply. The stomping increased in direct proportion. He bowed again. Half a dozen lumps of bread whistled by his head. One of his escorts hurried up to him and asked him to remove the hat. He did so, and all was peace again. Shortly afterward, the Maintenance Department posted a sign on the stairs leading to the balcony. It is visible to this day. "Gentlemen will please remove their hats...
Apropos of hissing, Mr. Sumner feels that there is no excuse for it. "It is the thing which we must keep down," he says, "because it is a disturbance." It all started when the theatre introduced the Hearst News, which was discontinued last spring in response to a petition from the students. "The Hearst News was eliminated simply because a fair portion of our audience objected to it." It was the students that gave the rest of the audience the inspiration...
...Sumner's clientele is rather unique, in that it is composed of three distinct groups "the so-called common people, the professors and the Brattle Street element, and the undergraduates, not to mention the youthful audience at Saturday morning's Mickey Mouse Matinees...
Despite Mr. Sumner's great efforts to please, on one occasion an efficient usher apprehended a Harvard professor who was hissing violently. Assured that his money would be refunded the embarrassed gentleman complied to the request to leave without resistance...
...Darien, Conn.; Henry F. Howes, of New York, N. Y.; Winthrop S. Jameson, Jr., of Belmont, Mass.; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Richard W. B. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass.; John F. McCluro, of Harrisburg, Pa.; William B. Miller, of Concord, Mass.; Sumner A. Pendleton, of Somerville, Mass.; Sheldon P. Peterfreund, of Glen Lyon, Pa.; Charlton D. Pierce, of Tilton, N. H.; Fred Rogosin, of Dorchester, Mass.; Sidney Sulkin, of Dorchester, Mass.; and Frank C. Wheelock, of Springfield, Mass...