The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-06
LI'ELY PLAY GUYS JEROME
AND FINALLY SHAKES HIS HAND
WITH HAMMERSTEfN,S.
'Liftlns the Lid" At the New Amsterdam
Aerial Gardens Is Amusing and Elk.
tremely vari0us-WOes OF Man
who can't Give Away Tainted Money.

Aerial Gardens Is Amusing ana Ex.
tremely various-wOes OF Man
Who CENT Give Away Tainted Money.
The Aerial Garden at the New Amsterdam
Theater opened for the summer last night
with new set OF decorations, a full house
and a good show. Lifting the Lid
review, is the main attraction. 1t ia packed
lam full Of pretty girls and lively tunes
and local hits District Attorney jerome
as played by julius Tanner is the goat,
He gets 1t from curtain to curtain, and still
there is nothing calculated to force the
Aerial Gardens into putting in new exits.
Lifting the Lid" starts out to have a
Mot George Stonefellow has got legacy
Of 100000 on condition that he spends
500, in q week; IL he doesn't, the money
goes to his cousin, provided she marries
him He can't spend money for the life
Of him; he can't even give it away be-
cause it was made in Standard Oil. He
trie, to give $50 to two telephone girls
whose Johnnies are held up in the cafe
because they can't pay the bill; he tries
t. give it to newsboy; he tries to bribe
c,p, No go.
As soon as they learn that 1t is Standard
Oil money they talk about the faint and
drop it. The plot gets lost after that,
and District Attorney William T.. q. Rome
comes on, preceded by a chorus entitled
There's Nothing Doing in the Good Old
Town" which tells how the lid is down.
writer wrote dead march In Montauk.
They used 1t for two step In New York.
Mr. g. Rome has cigarette, a Ratchet,
and four detectives.
You're all fred" says he. "You failod
to notice that there was light in the Aston
hit mansion after $50. you haven't found
n defective theater to-day and my picture
hasn't / cen in the papers for week
ore Of the detectives makes jest.
you're fred" says the District Attorney.
.l'm the only joke in the partment!"
Which is about the hardestSs shot he gave
himself.
He is hunting Hammerrtein. In the
second act. Oscar appears himself before
theatre which is all exits. He proposes
TO build two new houses and write play
before lunch; but first be kicks a dummy
just then enter @. Rome with Ratchet
hot for Hammerstein They meet.
Hello Bill says Hammerstein:
Hello Ham" Says the District Attorney
Say we've had about all the advertising
we're going to get out of this Shake.
Then G. E. Rome takes off his mustache
ard does limitations Of Richard Mansfield
ard others.
There's more to N-lays from upstate,
drunken chappies McAdoo dragons, Ito
girls ont for Holsters, girls who want to go
on the stage, a politician from Albany, and
all the other characters which belorg to
review. The lid is in plain sight on the
stage. It's sheetiron high hat, from
which g. T.. r ome issues now and then.
The cop who sits on it wakes up all of
sudden. ITS lie. cap says he, Il
only took bit of quinine for me cold
The lines verge on the limit now and
then.
Il saw the manager" says the girl who
wants to go on the stage He was real
brotherly Asked me il I was alone in
New York and if was married and if |
was comfortable in my present quarters
lam thinking - says the politician. :,
Don't. Every time You think l blush
Gays Corinne as Mathilde Macdfflni the
dressmaker
The second part is a pot-pourri OF scenes
from Gilbert and Sullivan, including
Pirates Of Pen2ance." "Pinaiore," -The
Mkado' and "lolanthe.