When to applaud - a new twist

[french frank]

Here's a genuine 1935 theatre audience:

Which one is you, Bryn? :-)

[Bryn]

Which one is you, Bryn? :-)

Some decades before my time, Frenchie. It's actually a shot of the audience of a 1935 traveling theatre in New York. A rather more ethnically mixed complement than would have been found in a London audience of that age, at that time, I think.

[mercia]

coincidentally 4extra is repeating a couple of programmes about concert etiquette - I dont know what authority Mr Florance is

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048p7xv/episodes/player

[Honoured Guest]

If the picture doesn't in fact show what it claims to show, it's not worth anything.

The captioned photo is intended to be humorous.

[Bryn]

The captioned photo is intended to be humorous.

What makes you so sure? It could just be the work of a lazy picture researcher.

[Serial_Apologist]

What makes you so sure? It could just be the work of a lazy picture researcher.

Honoured Guest knows everything - which is why she is honoured.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The inaugural meeting of the Prostate Society of GB?

I don't think so - they're all sitting up.

[Flosshilde]

What makes you so sure? It could just be the work of a lazy picture researcher.

Well, it's certainly given us a giggle or two.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't think so - they're all sitting up.

(Well, I got it!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Well, I got it!)