New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-29

are the halls themselves Each has four young
women. gorgeously bedzcned one. say. in tights,
the others In short skirts. each one doing four
turns" The programme has. usually from twenty
four to twentysx numbers. the rest of the enter
tainment being furnished by an orchestra. which Is
more than a piano and a violin. the latter
being sometimes dispensed with. Each GIRL be she
'serIo-comc," song and dance or whatever else,
has two songs to each turn" She Is the autocrat
of the house. II the orchestra does not play TO
and II he insists upon having his own way finally
nounces of the platform In rage: II youngster
compIiments on her figure. dress or voice. she
gives him back as good as he sent between the
,sa,ay, close yer face" one ''serio-comic' in
sd S@ G ais M 5o KICK S
her gilt slipper high In air The Listeners s nearby
wheezy clank Of the piano roared with appreciation
tho youth addressed skunk further down into
his chair, overcome by the laughing glances in his
direction.
Mus,caily the average is low, as might be sx-
par is ATTEMPTED One of the greatest hits for
example that the writer witnessed in an
ballad by fat i man MN in dress suit The ballad ex-
tolled the virtues of certain brand of cigarette
The music kept on playing when the singer sud
denly reappeared with n great pasteboard box in
his arms and threw to every corner and part Of the
precious cylinders The excited audience yelled
ore man. Dis way. Denny "Trun EN- ,I, here re-!
come good boy,'' until the last little packet had
been thrown. and the fat man had bowed himself
out.
TIE ORCHESTRA"
Against badly painted backgrounds depicting rural
these singers stand and dance. The popular
arrangement for the orchestra is TO have II in a
depressed recess Immediately In front, though In
places II IL at the side OF the stage Besides
their wages the musicians COR rusican) get each
evening Il certain number OF beer checks gratis.
The performers have their checks, too though in
the main they depend upon the liberality of the
audience. All these singing and dancing girls sit
in full view of everybody at small table by the
stage steps. They and knit between their
by strangers and having treats" proposed.
Contrary to what might be expected few OF them
old TO this sort Of work II Is a strange fact,
but an actual one, that the most OF them are mere
chdren-girs who can hardly have reached twenty
in many Instances. Nevertheless they dance and
sing with all the aplomb OF Old-timers, and many
DO well that it would seem as If they must surely
De heard from later. $3.50
After eleven the avenue begins to get quiet. The
dime museums and the variety theatre that serve
as satellites to the music halls disgorge their
varied crowds and for a few moments the street
Is crowded 1t has been by daylight shopping
GENRE for the lower middle class; now IT IS prom
euaile ard 2 place Of diverse swaggerngs The sa-
looms more do a rushing business the walters
In the al-nght restaurants begin to bestir them
selves But this Is only temporary. Gradually
the crowd melts away.
By midnight when the last music-ha singer tip
toes herself off the dusty stage, the street Is fairly
clear Those who have seen the SHOW In the
halls soon drift off into the side streets Only the
all-night restaurants keep up signs or great life.
Whether the avenue will be an all-night Bowery in