Call

The Slang Dictionary Etymological Historical and Anecdotal · 1913 · p. 7

a notice of rehearsal, or any other occasion requiring the company’s presence, posted up in a theatre. “We’re CALLED for eleven to-morrow morning.” Call-a-Go , in street “patter,” is to leave off trying to sell anything and to remove to another spot, to desist. Also to give in, yield, at any game or busine . Probably from the “ GO ” call in cribbage.