Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-30
STEYE BRODIE'S NEW PLAY
A Vivid Picture Of Bowery Life
OF To-Day.
us VIVID LIGHTS AND SHADES
east side Slang May Render . Glossary
necessary but the Mlrth aud Sad
ness Are True TO Life.
NEW YORK August IL

k.Ne AAs otoW Win q Six nanQkercnleI, aItef
which he fecked on some dust from his
raaor-toe patent feathers, and sat down to
await his cue.
Tney were rehearslng Brodie's Bowery
eFama' which will be presented in tbs
quaker City two weeks from now. prior to
entering upon a season at one OF the theaters
In tnis city. The play Is the creation Of
mr. Edwin Stevens, and Is a melodrama
Oh tne nrst water. All the regular features
oI tnis style Of play are presented. In
ciuoing the hero. who Is q penniless PEN
pusher, known to the public as a newspa.
per reporter; the heavy villain. who
mas betrayed a connding girl and
wants 70 marry brokers' daughter. the
one with whom our journalist hero is in
love; the countryman comes to town, the
tough girl and her "feller." and so forth.
Scene first introduces US to the brokers'
home. Henry Hoffman, who supported
fon Yonson, impersonates the broker, who
nas' on the day the scene opens, concluded
transaction which has yielded $11, 900 in
cash. which he puts in the safe In the par
LOT! 1t is a common impression downtown
on the east side that our moneyed men use
their safes as ornaments for their dressing
ioous, uon ye Know!
Our journalist hero is not regarded with
favor by the broker, and when he is found
with the daughter (Miss Fanny McGregor)
IN the brokers' parlor he is promptly Or
dered out, but he returns and says to his
sweetheart:
He doesn't want me for a son-in-law,
but want him for a father-in-law, SO I'll
adopt him."
Mr. Bieekman, the prepossessing villain,
approves Of the brokers' action in showing
the newspaper man the door, and watches
the broker put the $1,000 cash away in
the safe. They go off to have a smoke in
the library. and when Bleekman returns he
meets the seamstress employed by the
brokers' daughter (NIiss Ida McMilIan), who
turns out to be the woman he wronged
| "A d pleasant sight you are on rainy
night" he says, and then follows the regu-
lation scene between them.
Abner Higgins, from the country, an old
school friend of the broker drops in and
after stumbling over chairs and expressing
wonderment in the most approved style,
| goes of to spend the night in the broker
best bedroom. He tells his friend that his
daughter Lucy has left home, and that he
is on the track OF the villain who BETRAYED
her.
Darkness eventually comes over the stage,
and Bleekman Is alone with the safe.
| While he is cogitating Il believe that is the
word) two burglars come in and save him
| the trouble Of opening the safe but when
he makes slight noise they make of, drop
ping everything.
| Bleekman picks up the money, and the
seamstress comes in. He tells her hetneeds
money wherewith to pay his debts OF
"honor." She has her hand on the bell to
alarm the house, when he promises to marry
| her the next night.
| Our journalist hero comes next. He is
waiting for the brokers' daughter, who has
| eonesented to elope with him. The broker
| himself comes In instead, and finding the
| safe open accuses the young man, His
daughter explains his presence In the house.
and policeman comes in, In the person Of
Frank Bush Of Tony Pastor fame. He is
told to arrest the young journalist, but
Bridget. the girl (Mrs. Frank Bush) tells
him not to do 1t.
II stand between love and duty" he
says.
"Then love will stand between you and
duty" says Bridget.
Just then they bring in Abner Higgins,
who had wandered from his bedroom in
search Of water and arrest him for the rob-
berry.
The second act discloses the Bowery in
the neighborhood Of Brodie's saloon. Hers
we have the tamale man and the habtues OF
that part Of town. Frank Bush tried to
put Brodie right about the Bowery pronun-
eiation of the word girl" Brodie would
have 1t gal" Bush said 1t was "gayrl.'
And "gayrl'' 1t stood.
The girl over whom the dispute took
place was described as one with spotless
rep"
Mrs. Bush now comes on selling Wa.
Crys She sells one to Higgins, who must
have been released. One of Brodie's friends
salute him as "Rube:" but Higgins tells
him he 'ain't no Jay"
man)?" asks the tough. "Say, will We do
me q favor: Put scent rat into me-"
"Rat"
"Well, ball.
81 haven't got gum"
That's pretty good ben (coat) ye've got
Let's go soak 1t, an I'll give We
duster. Say, you pay for the
cry from Chatham Square to Cooper Insti-
tute knew all the old fellows, Irving.
Billy McGlory. and the rest, but there's
durn few left now
Higgins doesn't go, and the toush intro
duces him to Brodie, "the man wot jun led
over the Brooklyn Bridge"
Now comes along Bush in the guise Of q
Hebrew peddler.
."Shelp me gracious" he says, "tell me
yot to do An Eyetalian vos struck me on
the face und haf him arrested, und paid
shyster lawyer $40 to persecute him. The
Eyetalian died in Jail lasht night, und now
I wants me my $40 back again"
The second scene in the second act rep
resents the bsrroom in Brodie's saloon
with "spieling" in progress. One tough
bumps into another's rag" (girD and they
fight.
yez want me joint pulled?"
"Ah! he bumped against me gayrl, seep'
Then they order forthwith two working
mems friends" (schooners Of beer) and
drown their differences In drink, which
1rodie has to serve himself, one of his bar
tenders having just gone off and another
having fooled with the cashbox and ia
up on the Island now."
"Muggy weather." remarks one of the
toughs aforesaid.
"It has to be muggy weather to bring
cut such mugs as YOU" retorts his "gayrl."
"Has dat bioke got any dough?" (money)
asks Brodie.
"Not cent" says another.
"Den t'row i'm out" says Brodie.
"But I'm bowlegged with boodle." pleads
the young tough.
CHOW much have yer got?" asks Brodie.
"Say der word. Brodie," chimes in an
oIneT touSnS Will uPiihleu ustJ ready TO
smash the poor victim. who says he has
'r5 cents" and is promptly hustled out of
the room. He comes back. however. to
say:
"Brodle, you wouldn't treat me like dat
Of 1t was right before election, see."
Brodie throws a wet sponge at the man.
Exit man.
Higgins then comes In and asks for the
texts Of Scripture he had heard of.
"Guass again. granger" saws the n~
prietor, ''me name is brodie. not Dennett".
and another one remarks:
Say dis amt beanery, yap, its rum
merry. seer'
The elected tough returns with a dollar
BILL with which he is told to ''fix the Com
nissoners and get on the force.
He asks the crowd II they ever felt grand
while walking along Grand street. His-
gins, with a rural snort. retorts that he