"You wouldn't think it to look at a policeman what a delicate disposition such a fellow has got. A New York policeman will get red over something in a theater which for years respectable young fellows in the old country has been taking their mothers to see and neither of them turned a hair, y' understand. Also down at Coney Island a policeman will hide his face and holler for the police because a lady has got on a bathing suit which if one of them actresses wore it in a 'Follies' show where they walk across planks over the heads of the so-called two dollar seats, y' understand, compared with the other ladies in the show you would think she was dressed for starting out in an open theater to call on her husband's relations."
"Was the show so bad like the police said?" Zapp inquired once more.
"Well, I'll tell you," Birsky repeated, "when the police receive a letter that a show is immoral and they should please look the matter up and oblige. Zapp, they try to put themselves in the place of the average theater goer; but the only thing is, they got an idea that people which goes most to the theater were never in such a place before in their lives." 