The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-21
1frE roPTos xsour Town.

recover preHtlRo. IL was proved THIS year tnnt
there are circumstances under which q crowd
will not go to the Metropolitan on Sunday
nights. II was formerly thought that IL the
doors were opened the public would walk in
and that the concerts were . speculation In
amusements that involved little or no risk.
But several Of those given lately have been
heard by very small audiences. Mr.. Grau IL
about to return to this country to settle the
ARRANGEMENTS for these performances after tho
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secure some new and interesting artists. Even
ssS Sunday nS,Nr. pIsht 2 crowd nUs grows ..r wsS %y.; Of The
was rather surprising that Plancon,, who Is
known as the prime Sunday night ~favorito, was
tSSs sS : b But sns the s'' sunday mig night t'i business oa;
eems. to have been ovorworkod, and 1t viii 70
s fraGs P PsTtiGIS asSa y.s sS5TISns pT ssain, S,. E 8a at.
roach and Mr.. Ellis are fortunate in having q
ppmber OF new singers to present, and IL Nine.
dlences. Il proved a surprise this winter that
the. concerts could not go along by themselves
through, but one can count on the fingers Of
one hand the audiences that were exceptionally
sts smsSrieh ln we're sSr Sish IiSnG sneSos siufn sn ea in nI he
series that followed there were crowded houses
whe ,ns abe, Nordios. Psrlssn nsS and YsSye were
considerably more expensive than persons 70
aliEe, and II requires aslarge attendance to make
them profitable.
Ono Of the expenses Of building to be consid-
cred In tho future IL the cost of illumination, II
the plan adopted now in some Of the uptown
buildings In followed. The lights in at least one
Of them are all turned on at dusk and continue
to burn until lato at night. Possibly tho ad-
vertisement Ia q good one, but the glare rather
accentuatcs the barronness of o X y.scraper
which apparently has not.s single tenant. Sew
eral other uptown buildings are attracting at
tention just now by the same means. The ex-
add considerably to tho running expenses, par
ticularly IL the houses stand unoccupied for as
long y time as some Of the new buildings uptown
an uptown building has lately been put to an
INGENIOUS use by the son of the owner. They
little probability that they would be. So the
floors were waxed, the place was provided with
been several dances Of a character that is quite
in office buildings, even IL 1t 10 well
known in dxnne, other Or pieces; Another ne I Of these
O fact that has created some interest in the
comic opera companies now playing on upper
broadway.
When the Barnum g. Bailey show went to
London tho proprietor of it instructed his agent,
''Tody" Hamilton, to excite public interest by
publishing q column Of his unrivslled unsur-
passed descriptive work in every paper that
might DO entitled to 1t, and after Mr.. Hamilton
had assembled an extraordinary collection of
ldjectives, some of them American, some made
in Germany, and the others original, he looked
up the list of papers which publish that kind of
advertising. 1t was a days work, and ut tho
end of 1t Mr.. Hamilton had the names Of about
800 papers. To take q column Of advertising in
each of these papers would exhaust the receipts
OF tho Greatest Show on Earth, and Mr.. Hamil-
ton was sorely puzzled. He did not know how
the Eng!ish papers would treat this american
1t. A certain amount OF advertising was placed
in the papers and before the show opened tho
it over. The result surprised London, and sew
eral of the English papers have devoted as
to the show itself. In one of them appears this
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cleverness with which 1t has been advertised.
has had the run Of the entire place, The result
Kingdom. It afordo an illustration Of how
States. 'ei Here si tie ut utmost most seerecy would have
been observed until the opening day
know NSw Mei} sno %sh how s1 s %ea H tne Eaaf has S mads
several Years ago Mr.. Hamilton thought that
not aware Of the fact that the big show was in
town, 30 he looked the other way one night
son square Garden and went away to lose him.
self. Then Mr.. Hamilton helped the reporters
aRd ab sl%. i, The The n nex.' %dsninsa TEe p infhen kao OF
Mr.. Hamilton's literary STYLE has been apparent
In all of the London papers. They have seized
upon his adjectives and made them their own,
thus cheering their readers and incidentally the
proprietors OF the show.
The plink-plunk of banjoes played by experts
has been the feature of an unusual number of
fashionable entertainments recently, and the re-
vival OF interest In this instrument is at hand.
Mr.. w. X. Vanderbilt engaged two banjo play
ers to amuse his guests on Wednesday night.
Several other vel. known entertainers have
provided banjo music and plantation songs for
their guests. Less than ten years ago nearly
every unsteady inclined young woman in this
city %strummed q banjo and its popularity was
great. One of the professional bBnjo players
England awoke to tho fact that this much
despised instrument could furnish good music
OF It's kind: Teams" of young women who
families were In great demand in New York for
one winter. and one such team made 80 much
gave ~recitals. Other fads anne up and tho
banjo was almost forgotten again. The pro.
though had times have forced some of them to
give up their studios, and now they think that
they see their reward.
In O side street only q few feet from Broadway
there has stood every night for the past week
one of New York's most curious street must
clans. Women of her appearance are common
enough as street singers in London, but few Of
them are seen or heard here. She Is evidently of
German birth, although she speaks English with
little accent. Her clothes are moderately'com-
Portable, and she makes no attempt at eccen-
tricity Of dress. With her Is n stout woman
who accompanies her on an accordion. Tho
accompanist is evidently much less familiar
with the business thanh her associate, and makes
futile efforts to hide herself behind the singer.
she looks like an ordinary domestic servant,
and an ample shawl somewhat interleres with
her performance on the instrument, But moth
Inv omDarraSBeS her companion, She SIMS I'M
interrnptedly and indefatigably from 3 o'clock
until 10, with only casual interruptions to col
lect the pennies, which come slowly. Another
exceptional group that wanders through the
uptown regions consists of three blind boys,
WHO arc apparently about 20 years old. Theyfeel
their way along the street, and when they halt
It Is to sing an old-fRshioncd song, which they 20
through solemn!y without expression or va
riety. Every one OF them Is wretchedly dressed,
and the trio makes u depressing sight.
Society must have enjoyed itself on Tues
day night. Two clubs met then. one avowedly
given over to enjoying itself in n frivolous
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