...immediately suppressed, and the audience sat out the inanity with marvellous patience. Lord Rosebery, who was one of them, explains this phenomena on the...bored, a Denver audience is respectable. At Castle Rock, a roadside station halfway between Denver and Colorado Springs, our train was boarded by a comfortably...

...explained that because of Denver's shady past, the play-going citizens like to be bored because they were under the impression that respectable people are always bored, and that being bored meant they were respectable. In Colorado, however, the situation changed remarkably for the better...