The evening world., 1894-06-07
NO STANDING ROOM At 14s2.
The Garden Theatre Management
and the New Fire Law.
Closing Performances at the Lyceum
Gossip of the Play Houses.


The right to sell standing room In
theatres Is an issue raised by the Fire
Department that involves many thou
sands of dollars to the theatrical man
ayers of this city The complaint
against the management of the Garden
Theatre is the first under the amended
law which prohibits any person from
sitting or standing in the aisles or
passagcways. This house seems to
have been singled out because 1892"
now playing there, Is doing by far the
greatest business in town. Last night
every seat was sold by o'clock. and
then the sale was shut down. Scores
OF people clamored for standing room.
and some were very indignant because
they were refused. No person will be
admitted without seat coupon until
the case now pending is decided. Mr..
E. d. Price. business manager Of
Rioe's 1892" said last night :
MIR. Palmer has always been
a stickler for obeying the law. The aisles
have always been kept clear. Standing
room has been sold In the space back Of
the orchestra rail, but the approaches to
tend that this space is not a passage
way within the meaning of the law. The
intent of the law is pain enough 1t Is
to afford protection t. the audience by
assuring them ample and speedy means OF
egress In case of an emergency. 80 long
as this wise and necessary safeguard Ia
secured we maintain the right to utilize
| construction be regarded as an aisle or
passageway, However. no admission
tickets will be sold until decision Is
reacned. the m,rai is that II people want
TO see 1892 they must buy seats. and
buy them early, lncidentally. they may
bear in mind that the Garden Theatre
has over thirty exits.
Edison's Kaleidoscope" is on exhibition
at ll55 Broadway, and is most enter
tanning invention. Sandow's stage per-
formance, for instance, is shown In thirty
seconds, as is also Bertholdi's, the female
contortionist. a scene In barber shop,
beginning with the lather and ending
with the powder, is also shown. Carmen
| cita's dance has been added to the series,
| and other subjects are in course of prep
aration and will be added from time to
| time.
Theatres regular season.. when the
lively "Amazons'' ends with the 127th
performance. The Lyceum company has
won special distinction through its sue
cess with this comedy.
The members of sousa's Band at.
tended Yesterdays matinee OF 1872 at
the Garden Theatre, by invitation, Of
ssr Mst FONT ary HSs yhs
and their friends. to the number Of sew
eral hundred. have secured seats for
next Tuesday nights performance, and
numerous cadets who want. appropriate
gags introduced in the burlesque.
In Boston little bottles Of the sauce
| which has been done into comic opera
for Thomas Q. Seabrooke were distrib.
uted among the audience as souvenirs OF
the play. but this had to be discontin-
ued. Some of the people were not IA.
"Tabasco." and swallowed quantities of
1t, much to their subsequent discomfort
so the Boston authorities notified the
Seabrooke managers that no more was
to be given out.
There Is clever little singer at Proc
tors named Madge Ellys. who has made
a success of no light order. She is new
catchy order. Few of our vaudeville
performers render their songs with the
intelligence displayed by Miss Ellys.
"The Skating Rink" goes to the Co.
mmbus Theatre. in Harlem. next week,
which will be the last OF the season.
The cast will be the same as the
Wa RHns Rsnsa nGpans Nat F2ra H canto4 nnayy9n Wo
ter Hawley. Miss Kenyon Bishop Anna
Caldwell and others. Milton Mobiles and
his delightful Phoenix" are at the Co
umbuS this week. The house will be
re-opened on Aug. 20.
T. J. Mapes, the illustrator of the
Stoddard lectures, is to appear at
keith's Union Square Theatre next
week as rather novel innovation in
the continuous performance" there.
He vii! show many of his best views
and will reproduce some of the scenes
so enjoyable. The three Carman broth
ers. who have starred until recently
will also open at Keith's next Mon
day.
Messrs. Hoyt and Mckee unqualifiedly
deny the published statement that Min
be under Charles II. Hoyt's management,
and also include in the denial the an
nouncement that Mr.. Hoyt Will be this
sent he ress to hs Ss seet
!, was wholly unauthorized by the manage
ment of the Madison Square Theatre. as
l. was unifnown to them until they saw
IT In various newspapers. Mr.. Hoyt
does not intend to participate In mis-
cellaneous ventures. His time Is
thoroughly occupied in looking after his
A pretty young woman, with consid-
erable alarm depicted upon her face,
rushed up to bob" Cutting at the Madi-
son Square Theatre. where he was on
guard at the door the other night, and
. said breathlessly:
"Oh, MIR. Cutting, you know the pass
you gave me for to-night-my little boy
chewed 1t up this morning. and there
Is i, N not rt, a veStlge g left; What shall l
, other pass.
Political Notes.
The Platt Republicans Of the Thlrticth District
will hold a meeting tonight at timers Hall One
Hundred and Seventy-ceventh street and Webster
avenue.
Tho Seminole warriors OF the Fifth District
haXa F,iI, pI,,lt