The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
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Grim Faced Gaels In the Balcony Front
hut No Actlon-Plcnty OF stage Jests
shout Dams Exclusion From the Itth
street Theatre. but No Hard KNOCKS.
Dan McAvoy, he who was kept out Of the
Fourteenth Street Theatre because it was
ssid that he wore green whiskers on the
stage 10 the detriment Of the peace and
the dignity Of the Irish nation, got his show
.His Honor. the Mayor Of the Bowery, on
the stage in this city last night in the old
Murray Hill Theatre. which opened its
doors for the first time this season for him.
There was a packed house. In the first
balcony sat n row OF grim faced, silent men.
Between seating time and the moment
when the view OF Dewey's feet passing
Brooklyn Bridge in the drop curtain rose
10 show a bower on the Bowery they could
10 soon -tudying Celtic dictionaries, Rumor
had r that they we're laying for the green
whi-kcrs.
The prciininaries we're soon over. The
ctoru. II high hceled Bowery girls wHrblcd
their opening wnrble; the soubrette and the
Dutch comedian exchanged airy persiilage;
a beauty doctor in long black gloves told
the comic old maid that beauty Is only
skin deep. and she'd advise her 10 be
skinned, the orchestra struck up @Pop
Goes the Weasel and the man in tho
chorus who has been promoted TO a two limo
part cried
Here ne comes his Honor, the Mayor
Of the Bowery.
Tho grim men in the first gallery sat up
straight and clinched their teeth Then
they uncinched them They were foiled
Dan McAyoy wasn't wearing any green
whiskers
He wasn't wearing any whiskers at nn
He Ind on a red sack waistcoat that wasn't
hucked behind Trousers that fitted him
reluctantly and an accent that faxed the
paint from tho scenery, hut no green whis-
kers Before they could recover from
their disappointment the show proceeded.
IA insuted your noble anceetor,T saws
The beauty doctor
.Phwlt did e say o me ancestor?- says
McAyoy
He said he cou ldn't play at the Four
tenth street tn eatre'" saye the soubrette
And all the chorus girls glanced at the first
balcony
Then Mr.. McAvoy sang little song en-
titled She Certainly Was a Regular Bird
After the second line, il couldn't be printed
in The SrS
ITS the only song know. Mr.. McAvoy
apologized. = could remember only one
after the jar got"
But the grandest and most glorious ref
erence II all came at the close of the first
act The chorus girls had just sung a
song about Bunker Hill and the good old
flag with marching accompaniment This
spuued tho chorus men on to do the wall
scaling drill IN the back drop. Mr.. McAvoy
went up last and stuck in the middle From
that position. he drew and waved an Irish
flag The curtain fell between him and
possible trouble.
When the curtain rose to noisy recall.
he was crouching amid storm Of things
that looked like footballs and stage tunips
and cabhages. Suddenly he Strengthened
up and drew forth from his clothes a starry
banner in which he enwrapped himself !
II had n magical effect. The footballs /
md cahbages stopped, and the orchestra !
vas moved to play THE Star Spangled I
Banner The audience yelled so hard
that you couldn't tell what the grim faced |
Gaels in the gallery were doing.
Dan McAvoy had to make a speech in
which he explained that he wasn't trying /
TO elevate the stage
The plot was great. The King Of the
bNN'i1 udH n ~ N'llu, anu tle IIN'Ut loves ]
Geriie hut Gertie loves no one, and the
Mayor Of the Bowery loves the beauty
doctor, who doesn't love him. but the old
maid does; abe loves the rcformer who +
wants to be Alderman, and pays the Mayor
cool thousand to get him the Job and
'hefrlend IS af5tid to propose to Gerfe and
gets the Mayor o write her letter. and
the Mayors daughter. who IL disguised IA
the belhoy, gives II TO the old maid from .
laoa and papa thinks she gave it 10 One
body el'e and everybody wants TO fight
But it., darn sight more complicated
than that Clyde Fitch never thought Of
any such plot There were ingenious sub
plots. too. like putting an oil stove undera
chair So that every one who rat therein
thought the weather was warm, and making
bottle Of whiskcy drop through a table
and pop back again. 80 that the drnker
thought he had 'em.
But anyway. Dan McAvoy was funny
he can Z help it. He was born that way
kven that show couldn't stop him Give I
nun red waistcoat and Mary Had Little /
Lamb, and he'll make you laugh in spite /
81 your better nature.