Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
SHOWS REHEARS|NC
Estimated That There are
1000 at Work,
THE UNIQUE FEATURES
SOME PECULIAR INCIDENTS ARTS
ING FROM MISTAKES.
Political Headquarters Besieged by
WouldBe Campaign orators-Odd-
Looking Characters Described.

NEW YORK September .. 1894.
A theatrical booking agent who is pretty
good with a pencil estimates that there
are 2,Go0 Shows rehearsing in and
around New York at the present time
This may well be. For the past month or
so one has been liable 10 run into the
atrical rehearsal almost anywhere in New
York. All of the stages of course, have
been held down by rehearsing organizations
every hour of the day and night. All of
the dance halls, big and little. East SIDE
West side, all around the town. have been
chartered by the rehearsers. They have even
overlooked into the beer gardens-a propin-
guilty not so undesirable in the view of some
OF the mines The tiny Harlem fiat parlors
of the principals of fiy-by-night theatrical
outfits have been and are being utilized
for rehearsals. Some of the rehearsals
Tor the matter of that, have bulged and
oVeriapped into the open air of the parks
OF Central Park in particular.
1t was in the nature Of things that this
widespread rehearsing should cause some
conf tsion in the minds of persons unfamil-
lar with matters touchin' on and apper-
talnln TO the stage Several resulting er-
Tors have had 10 be Strengthened out in
the police courts.
a young man who would have haan oI1ita
passab!e looking had it not been for a black
eye and lumpy forehead was the COM
plainant against the driver of hanson
cab in the YOrkyille police court the Their
morning a pretty, decidedly theatrical-ap-
pearing young woman was his assistant
complainant
This fellow. your honor" explained the
young man with the facial marks of pun
ishment pointing to the cab driver, de
Hberately jumped off of his cab in Central
Park and began to soak me. Look at mel"
wv hat have you got to say for yourself
my MANI the magistrate gravely inquired
of the cabmdn
'Jedse. your honor" said the cabman,
Il on y done wot I'd expec' any decent fell
Ter t do fr me own sister. l was drivin'
me empty cab troo tn park yisriddy after
noon, Wen | hears. close t tn road this
Teller abusin' tn goil wot's wit him. [
hoped from me cab an rubbers troo tn
trees The two's standin' big rock,
sort of cliff overlookin' a gorge, an this
dubs tryin t git his hans around her
troat t choke her.
Gimme them papers, he yells at her.
or by tn turkey sky wot bends above us
III trun youse down L tn jagged rocks
below An then he grabs TIL goil by tn
troat and she screams wit all her lungs
Ihen / gets busy. jedge your honor 1t
looked IKE me butt-in, an l there.
hands him couple o clouts on tn law
an two or tree in tn Stats an then a
mounted cop spins along, an this Teller
has tn noive t have me pinched."
Annoying Rehearsing Mistakes.
1t was one of those annoying rehearsine
mistakes. of course. The damaged youns
man explained to the magistrate that he
was the leading Juvenile for the Curses on
the Cards company. and that the young
woman at his side was the leading woman.
On their way through the park they had
started to rehearse the great bit" that
made the finale Of the third act, when the
cabman had grabbed the situation by
messing me up this way, your honor" as
the leading juvenile pathetically put it.
The chivalrous cabman was turned loose
by the magistrate, with the admonition that
the next time he happened upon a young
woman being abused in public he'd better
take pains to find out If there was forged
will mixed up in the melee, in which case
mis- interference would be unjustifiable
A waiter in an upper Broadway bierstube
had an experience similar to the cabman's
His case came up before the magistrate at
Jefferson market court A tall young man
and a short young woman. it seems had
been peaceaby partakng of malt refresh
ment in rear compartment of the bier
stube, when, all of a sudden, the young Wo-
man FLASHED saw (knife) about a ward
long" the waiter explained in court
Il t'ink she tux it out o her stockin', but