The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-28
COLUMBIA BOYS ON A LARK.
They Take Possession of Harri-
gan's Theater and Indulge i'm
the Widest of Capers.

New York, April 25.-The students
of Columbia college arranged, about
three weeks ago, for theater party
to which the members of all classes
subscribed. the organizers called it
ga Varsity Theater Party" and it
was contemplated that it should be
the beginning of a series of theater
parties to be arranged by the students.
About 400 of the students subscribed
for the first "party" and tickets were
bought for "Reilly and the 400" at
Harrigan's theater. When the CON-
mittee waited on Manager Hanley he
told them that he would reserve a
block of 400 seats. provided the stu
dents would promise that they would
do nothing to offend the actors or the
other thester-goers who might occupy
the seats not sold to the Columbia
boys. The chairman of the commit
tee gave his assurance.
The Columbus boys were IN their
seats early last night and passed the
time before the beginning of the per.
Torrance in guying each other in loud
tones and passing TASKS of liquor
around among those who occupied
orchestra seats. The boys Joined
noisily in the choruses in the first
act and a number of theater-goers,
men and women left the theater TO
escape the disorder. The uproar be.
came greater in the second act, The
students in the balcony threw strips
Of stock tape down upon the boys in
the orchestra and all of them seemed
to join in the pastime of pelting
beans and paper balls al
those in the orchestrs
They selected bald heads all over the
theater as targets for a fusilade Of
beans. More people walked out and
the collegians amused themselves by
passing whisky fasks more freely and
in Kissing the special officers in grey
uniform.
There was howl when Miss Emma
Pollock appeared. She is the actress
who impersonates Maggie Murphy.
The coliegians showered her with pen.
mics ard nicke!s. She interpolated
what she designed as hint to noisy
college boys to the effect that the COM
pany liked fun, but that there were
limits to tom fooIery. About this time
messengers were sent for extra police.
men to keep the boys in order aud the
older heads among them began to sug.
gest that they were overstepping the
bounds of pr,priety in introducing
music hall manners there. Persons
who had psid for their seats left be-
cause it was impossible to hear any
thing of the play. Later, the students
who had become very disorderly,
threw cabbages and big paper wads
upon the stage. Harrigan thought
things had gone far enough and the
play was cut short and brought to an
abrupt close. He will never again
entertain Columbia Varsity party.
The students crowded on side the
theatre and sang and shouted until
the police appeared and they scattered
precipitately. twenty-five Of the stu.
dents started down Sixth avenue
shouting and singing and kicking
over ash barrels. Between Thirty
second aud Thirty-third streets DR..
Frederick w. Daug of 418 West
Forty eighth street kicked over a
barrel in front of a doorway in front
of which Policeman Reardon was
standing. Reardon collared Daug and
landed him in the station house and
he was locked up for the night. Miss
Pollock was followed from the theater
by collegians until she took refuge in
a roafanranf