The evening world., 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 it were.
The Columbus Theatre, Harlem. is a
very good starting point and 1t was
there that | 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 n breakdown 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, 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 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 their 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
balladsts and imitators, Janet Melville
and Evie Stetson. They made their an
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. / know
better. Where else could they have OBJ
tained 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 1.-The Elijah" or
THE Messiah" Not at all. Before YOU
know II they are warbling johnny, my
old friend john" and with pensive faces
are telling you about the youths whose
pants were cut alike in the front and
back, so that his gentle grandmother
could never tell whether he was going
east or west. l think | detected tears
| In their eyes as they sang about this.
| II was so sad. one of their best songs
| Is called Girl Wanted" AS for their
| limitations in which they showed how
variousaCtors would recite the nursery
rhyme Jack and Jill"-well the audi
| ence simply howled with delight. Their
| turn" Is immense.
Miss Annie Hart. n stout woman, who
Is evidently trying to Guido Maggie Cline
and Is not succeeding-is all very well
| In her way. But Maggie still has a
warm place In my young heart, and
want no would-be usurpers of her place
Miss Hart sang The Bowery Girl" very
well. and she wore a lovely peculiar silk
gown. McAvoy and May are very good
In a rough and tumble way, and they
were most fervently applauded. Miss
May does wooden shoe specially, and
Mr.. McAvoy falls about the stage very
audaciously. Then there were Billy S
Clifford and Maud HUH In their "com.
edy creation entitled THE Johnny.
| CALI the three st. Felix sisters. ir
blonde wigs and red stockings; Musica
Dale, who pegs away at the same ole
story, the Nawns and others
Tony has returned, however, and tina,
is the most important point. The season
incomplete without him, can now pro
coed. ALAN DALE