The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-08
IN OLD FOURTEENTH STREET.
QUEER SIGHTS YOU SEE WHERE
ONCE WERE CHURCH AND OPERA
The Grenadiers OF the Dewey Chorus and
tho Ancieats They Beam Upon-The
Piusged TEEN variety OF the German
Accent-views OF might on Broadway"

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Piusged Teeth variety OF the German
Accent-views OF might on Broadway"
East Fourteenth street is no longer so
Electrically interesting as 1t was decade
ago. Then Tony Pastor was In all his
glory and ruled the entire realm. He ID
king STILL but the old SAVIOR has departed
that SAVIOR dear to New Workers. Now
the street Is a bizarre medley OF concert
the heart Of things operate. " the home
OF melodrama, and when Steinway Hall
suppressed its concert room-best OF any
acousticaly and otherwise-the soul OF
music fled uptown to the gloomy spaces
of the house that Andrew built.
To revisit to-day the glimpses OF the
street, which only ranged from Third ave-
nue. TO Fourth the sentimental tourist Will
find a few consultations remaining lie
may catch a brief view Of Charles Tretbar
in his Office at Steinway Hall, not looking
very much changed from the days when he
piloted Anton Rubinstein through the shall
lows and rocks Of the musical world OF 1873
Further down, Don Antonio Pastoral,
thanks to vigorous constitution. seems
as active as he was when he introduced Ial-
lian Russell TO us. And that is quite lew
years ago. Then, If you 60 up Irving place
you may encounter Manager Conried about
10 .
Heinrich. with knout In one hand and
contract in the other-both impartially IN
tended for that bird Of prom se, the Prlma
donna. Move southwark and you VIII see
handsome. ford faced, well-built-but no
longer fat T-gentleman In Fourteenth street.
II Is August Lnchow, impresario OF the
Wlrsburoer Hofbrdu Opera Company. gurg-
ling at his establishment night and day
Keeping on the same side Of the street
L. 81, Il - Ahlhach's
Thesis and Lienau's walks pensively
until he reaches a church. church!
Yes, he says sadly to himself, with the
echoes Of the Doxology in his ears, a church
but now the Dewey Theatre Why Ii il
called the Dewey Hush. my child. or the
Senator will hear you! Can't you see
the curtain2-is II not evocative OF the
glorious victory at Manila? WhisM just
then Manager George Kraus comes for
ward, smiling, looking a few days older
than the Sunday afternoon when he gave
his friends Of the press q private view OF
his new show in the hall where Weber a
Fields now hold forth. He literally laid
course, he has forgotten all about that,
What interests him closely is the new play
put on this week at the Dewey and entitled
oh, sweet, odoriferous title!I'Night on
not "a night" or -the night 1t is more
embracing. All nights on Broadway, are
alike to the author of this touching local
idyll. Harry Morris il his name. and he
plays the principal role; Let US enter the
church-now the Temple Of Cythera and
kraus.
II is no longer a worshipful place. The
stage il a histrionlc drove-yard. where
once texts where hurled from pulpit. and
there is a sound Of revelry by day and night
that would edify former members Of the
- III -
are the women. Certainly no organization in
town possesses bigger. more solid, muscular
and taller ladies'. They fairly tower over
the men and push the latter about as super
fiuous furniture. These grenadiers OF the
guard Of Venus are nevertheless young
and handsome The old guard has evil
IDENTIFY died or surrendered: 50 Tar as ~ Manager
been caioled by the present one for 'broil-
ers' and squads. Abandon hope, ye little
women who enter here. is his motto. He
believes not in the subtle beauty OF sug-
else naught. 1t is bully, bully and big.
And the joke about bald-headed men
in front rows had not been made the first
wit entering the Dewey OF dull afternoon
with chaste old epicures who wag their
jaws and gasp brards at the stage.
Yes, II does take your breathe away
at frst; but, alasi you soon grow accustomed
to the violent disrobing, the forest Of braw why
legs and the display Of shoulders. white.
cleaning; otherwise, phew! phewl help!
from Philadelphia, or Wilkes Barre, or Ho-
boken, 10 carried out frothing at the lips,
and sometimes laugh Is heard, brazen,
heartless. cruel-it Is only the voice OF the
q bracelet, az he laughs aloud at the play.
dot Harry Morris is 40 funny he says,
wiping eyes no longer guileless. 1t 10 even
solitary Morris is q funny dog.
might on Broad way Ii a farce Of q
familiar pattern. A gay old bird Of q
candy manufacturer has had might on
and lost his hat In tho Tenderloin-hs
name is inside the hat. Hence the eagerness
Of the gray boards In the audience. What
will the wife say when she returns from
Newport There 10 the rub She did say
things, and little wonder. Papa is in his
home recovering from q head his naughty
nephew helping him to sober up. There Il
a dancer whose costume occasionally re-
bounds from her In an eruption Of violence
And tho candy girls. Aha! the 'baldies.
simply sSDss sins iSs peoEs snd
palates. One girl in particular excited
deep curiosity. She was delicate ostrich
about nine feet high and her part in the
piece was called Maggie Height. MdQQie
when she walked, simply en-compassed the
earth A grand sight, grand sight. gentle.
men, was Maooie. ttle-Sister-to-Stilts.
Mr.. Morris has a German accent Of the
kind known as plugged teeth He falls
over his face. and his behavior when he
sees a girl would bring the blush OF shame
to the forefront Of goat. Indeed. mind
OF ardent religious conviction would not
long hesitate in calling all the performers
eoats-as contradistinguished from the
sheep in the audience. or counsel But
before such massive specimens of seq
architecture as Mlred Stoller, Carrie Web
Der, Georgia Kyle and the other opulent
ladies in the chorus what could even a
St. Anthony say? One daughter OF
Thespis named Mollie Omega-why not
Alpha, too?-undressed the part of house.
maid quite entrancingy. She both cleaned
and sshouldered.' Another full-throated
fairy made her entrance singing sDu sollst
mich befragen,' from 'Lohengrin." We
didn't.
The things that are said and the things
that are done are quite indescribable
Not wicked, Observation-Disclosures symbolic