The evening world., 1894-10-10
TONY PASTORS sH.

Tony Pastor is back in town. He crept
in at the north end, and Is drawing
gradually upon New York, as 1t were.
The Columbus Theatre, Harlem, Is a
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 frisk through one Of his songs
He did break down that wouldn't have
been amiss from a sixteen year-older,
and he was as earnest and magnetic as
though he had just made his debut. He
sang Telephone" song, q plaintve
little something-etta entitled Man Not
Required" and that exquisite little ode,
almost Tennysonian In it's swinging,
soulful rhythm. called "A Little Bunch
OF Whiskers on His Chin" How they
all applauded Tony! The women dote
on his songs, and he always sings some
domesticated verses about gentlemen
tottering home at 2 A. NJ, or babies
| crying for thei feeding bottles, women
clamoring for new bonnets and so forth.
He Is never obstruse. The New Woman
Is nothing to him. He is satisfied with
the old one
Mr.. Pastors company included those
/ two gorgeously clad. dainty looking
pailadists and imitators, Janet Melville
ana 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 were not in
Innate friends of Her Majesty. | know
better. Where else could they have OBJ
tanned those 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 1t they are warbling Johnny, nv
old friend john" and with pensive faces
are telling you about the youths whose
pants were cut alike in the front and
back. 80 that his gentle grandmother
could never tell whether he was going
east or west. | think | 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 their
limitations. in which they showed how
various actors would recite the nursery
rhyme Jack and Jill.'-welr the audi.
ence simply howled with delight. Their
turn" is immense
Miss Annie Hart a stout woman, whC
Is evidently trying to Guido Maggie Gin,
land is not succeeding-is all very wei
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 lovely peculiar sill
gown McAvoy and May are very goo,
In rough and tumble way. and the,
were most fervently applauded. Mis-
May does wooden shoe speciality, an
Mr.. McAvoy falls about the stage YER
audaciously. Then there were Billy S
Clifford and Maud HUH, in their "com
edy creation" entitled THE Johnny
Call" the three st. Felix sisters, 1
blonde wigs and red stockings; Musica
Dale, who pegs away at the same oil
story the Nawns and others.
Tony has returned however and that
| the most important point. The season
: incomplete without him. can now pre-
, coed. ALAN DALE