The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-10
TONY PASTORS SHOW.

Tony Pastor Is back in town. He crept
in at the north end. and is drawing
gradually upon New York, as ii were.
The Columbus Theatre, Harlem. Is
very good starting point, and 1t was
there that I heard Tony last night. He
has been doing the seaside resorts and
listening to the roar of the Summer
ocean. He has transferred some OF that
roar to his voice, for 1t is healthy and
vigorous, and you can even hear 1t out
side the theatre. You should have seen
Tony frlsk through one of his songs.
He did breakdown that wouldn't have
been aamiss from a sixteen-year older,
and he was as earnest and magnetic as
though he had Just made his debut He
sang Telephone" song, a plaintive
little something-etta entitled MAN Not
Required" and that exquisite little ode,
almost Tennysonian in its swinging,
soulful rhythm, called "A Little Bunch
Of Whskers on His Chin" How they
all applauded Tony! The women dote
on his songs, and he always sings some
domesticated verses about gentlemen
lettering home at A. NJ, or babies
crying for their feeding bottles, women
clamorng for new bonnets and so forth
He is never obstruse. The New Woman
is nothing to him. He is satisfied with
the old one.
MIR. Pastors company included those
two gorgeously clad. dainty-looking
bnlIadists and imitators, Janet Melville
and Evie Stetson. They made their ap-
pearance in dresses that they probably
wore when they were presented at
Queen Nictoria's last Drawing Room.
Don't tell me that they are not in
Innate friends of Her Majesty. l know
better Where else could they have OBJ
tanned their lofty airs and their double
distilled refinement? They are shy
young things though. are Melville and
Stetson. They stand there demurely
and you imagine that they are going to
chant something from THE Elijah" or
THE Messiah" Not at all. Before you
know it they are warbling johnny, my
old friend john" and with pensive faces
| are telling you about the youths whose
| pants We're cut alike in the front and
back, so that his gentle grandmother
could never tell whether he was going
| east or west. | think l detected tears
in their eyes as they sang about this
| 1t was so sad, one of their best songs
| Is called Girl Wanted" AS for theii
limitations, in which they showed how
ambassadors would recite the nursery
rhyme Jack and Jill'-well, the audi
ence simply howled with delight. Theil
turn is immense
Miss Annie Hart, a stout woman, VIII
Is evidently trying TO Guido Maggie Clin
and Is not succeedng-Is all very vel
in her way. But Maggie still has
warm place in my young heart, and
want no would-be usurpers of her place
Miss Hart sang The Bowery Girl" YER
well, and she wore a lovely peculiar sill
gown. McAvoy and May are very goo
in rough and tumble way. and the
were most fervently applauded. Mis-
May does a wooden shoe specially, an
Mr. McAvoy falls about the stage yer
audaclously. Then there were Billy s
Clifford and Maud HUH. In their "com
edy creation" entitled THE Johnny
CALI" the three st. Felix sisters,
blonde wigs and red stockings. Musics
Dale. who pegs away at the same Of
story. the Nawns and others.
Tony has returned, however, and tha
Is the most important point. The seaso
incomplete without him, can now pr,
: coed. ALAN DALE.