The morning times., 1896-06-21
ON GOTHAM ROOF GARDENS
There Merriment Is Mainly
Concentrated at Present.
FOUR THEATERSARE OPEN
Economic Actresses Are Making Over
Old Costumes for Summer Fr0cks.
Gossip of People We Know.

New York, June 2O.-Exccpt for corner
lot where DE Wolf Hopper is sumniering, a
small patch of pasture green where the
Gay New Workers are having their gambol.
Kei.ar's mysteries in Days cavern, and
the opera company at the American, yau-
deville owns this village. 1t has a first
mortgage, executed in its own name, and
isbear1ng interest at a high rate-as high IS
the roof. That is where nearly ala the in
tercst is borne. The mort ga geexteRdsf from
Manhattan Beach, where ii is DISCUS u III a
promissory note, signed by ''EIaDgeline
Rice, To Harlem River, where it parades
itself unbiushingly just as 1T"
To drop he metaphor and record the fact.
two BIZ, vaudeville entertainments marked
the week. Up at Proctor's Pleasure Pal
ace the novel idea OF having performance
which iiay be viewed from 10th sides OF
the stage has awakened the greatest inter-
est. The beautiful Palm Garden, resplend-
ent with myriads of electric lights, is al
ways filled with people WHO sit and sip their
cooling beverages while they look at the
stage performance and watch the express
sions on the faces OF tteir auditors in the
grand auditorium.
The only dra wback to tie new arrange
nieut is the difficulty some OF tire per-
formers iiave in playing 10 10th audiences
or course, the elephants aud the acrobats
were all right. but the soubrettes and sing
ers had a Lard time of it, Bettina Girard
made tie best attempt IA pleasing both sides
OF the house She Gang half OF each song TO
each part in very graceful fashion, and
wis rewarded with unlimited applause.
oLYMPIA's ROOF GARDEN.
ol,inpla's midair crystal palace was
ASnpd1U NIGHT
There were 3 3,0C0 people present. How do
know? yeracious, Mr.. Hammerstein
told me So Those are big figures, but the
new roof garden is u hig place. 1t covers
all of Ciympia and has a fuil-sized Stage,
where spectacleS and oIera can lie put on
On cither side of the stage are elaborate
scenic effects, which seem SO natural that
one Is almost tempted to ina gine that he
is in the mountains of Europe, and not In
gay New York.
Mr. Hammcrstein has invented Il device
for reducing the temperature OF the garden
A system Of PIPES carries ice water from
the cellar To the top of the roof. luis then
allowed to tIicklc over the glass in The roor,
and IN this way it is expected that the
tcmDerature can he reduced several degrees.
OLD CLOTHES MADE NEW.
Some OF the best patrons of the roofs
l see them in crowds every evening. They
are mcrry ;hrong in spite of the hard
winter which has blown into no ovel-
promising summer. But they don't seem to
care .iang. They live only for the day,
and so lorg as they can jingle dollar
they don't bother about where they are
going to get another when that one Is
gone. The woncn are striking dressers-
But fancy I've discovered one trick which
others have told you of. The dear girls
can't afford new outfits this year, so they
have gone through their theater trunks
for the old costumes. A little ingenuity, a
needle and spool of thread has done the
business. Old dresses worn in Lady Win
deinerc's Fam" The Last Word,' Bank
er's nargater." Called Back Rose
dale "MaSq neraders" and the other
dramas wherein fine feathers were
feature, are having an airing, and testify
to the clevcrness or the actress, though it is
born or economy. There are enough old
dresses which have been made for failures
to last the ladies couple of years IL
they would only pitch in for readjust-
ment bee.
LOCATING THE PERFORMERS.
Sprinkled over town are a Lost of per-
formers worth seeing. The original
Lockhart Elephants, which you are to see
6c.I diAtI thc Optbih6 VI tit hCW w
mubia Theater, remain at Proctor's
Pleasure Palaoe for their ninth month.
The VItascOpe is the star of Roster and
Bal, and it's great wonder. Vitascopes
are popular with manag gers, for they can't
talk back or kick Oh Their place ID the
program or succumb to Bacchus' allure
mcnts. Bonnie Thornton, the girl who
sings without any voice, and Tony Pastor,
who can't grow old, are the stars at
Pastors. Press Eldridsc has things his
own way Oh top of Madison Square Garden.
Verona Jar5cau is at this inoIneDt carroll
ing way up on the Americans roof ,'aDd
Marguerite Roscommon McKlosky Cline
next Monday night mounts the stairs that
lead 10 the Casinos garden. Down at
keiih's there are Helene Mora and Harry
Gilroil.
SOME CHANGES.
Tim Murphy has slipped cut Ct Keith's
bill l don't know why. But he's gone
from the bills. This is all the more strange,
for his clever speciality bids fair to keep him
here all summer. / may have more to
tell you On this next week. Tim and his
pretty Wife Dorothy Sherrod, are at home
III an uptown apartme Mt house and are busy
preparing for next year.
An important deal was Gems animated last
week. when contracts were signed fer the
transfer OF the opera company now appear
ing at the American Theater to the Herald
Square on June %.
Many changes have been made "In Gay
New York" at the Casino. and the sprightIy
review is better than ever Virginia Earle
Is doing the hest work other career Walter
Jones, Lee harrison. Henry Norman. and
other fun-makcrs are seen mt their best
'El Captain" continues on its prosperous
career at the Broadway Tbcater. Nella
Bergen, the new prima donna, is i decid-
I'd acquisition To the company, beaded by
DeWolf Hopper and his pretty wife There
Is every prospect that the opera will run
all summer.
The daily, as well as the dramatic
papers. havc had interesting and culogistic
a ccounts OF the artistic and financial
success OF your new stock company. 1
should judge by the list OF names thar it
Is as even and satisfactory as could be.
Miss Morton writes that she is TO play
the kangaroo girl in "Dr. Bill.'' But Won
arc familiar with her capital work 1T
Aliens. She is a clever artist and made
positive demonstration of her dramatic
ability long before hig salaries toos her
into vaudeville.
Martha Morton last week told me q
secret two about her new play for
Crane All am at liberty to repeat is
that william Boag is fitted with a part
which Will brin. him opportunity for new
donors. AU rcvuir!
SANS-GENE.
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