It is a section of life about which your average playgoer knows little or nothing and yet one for which he nourishes a tremendous curiosity."
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
"My memory as a playgoer doesn't extend over many years," he began; "but I can appreciate the historical interest of your beautiful prints."
"Blind Love"
Wilkie Collins
If you wished to make a bag of old playgoers, or meditated a sort of Bartholomew's Eve, a revival of Hamlet would, of course, be the occasion you would select for your purpose: for the old playgoer, so to speak, collects Hamlets.
"Prose Fancies"
Richard Le Gallienne