The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-04
The BAUM SHOW is ON AGAIN.
EIEN 4 ZELTNER PARADE or
STRIKERS IS NO BAR.

and Jacob Baum, opened their Irving
Npaic Hall at PA Broome street last night
after four nights Of darkness, but not until
the striking union actorincs and their high
beelej friends from a number OF nearby
variety theatres had shown their resent
nent toward the Baum brothers by leading
n narade of Yiddish actor folk all over the
Fast Side. The parade was headed by
President Louis Zeltner OF the East Side
Wireless News Association, his star OF
sss,stants and a band OF sixteen pieces,
mostly comets.
The title Of the piece put on last night
nv SOAP" artists il, freely translated by
Jouis Zeltner. The Bum Collector, or
Why Did She Pay the Rent2- About two
hundred East Side Arst nighters ventured
10 20 into the theatre and all the rest Of
the region east Of Broadway stood on the
sidewalk and said Boot" quite severely to
Them as they bought their tickets.
Capt. Murtha, three ,roundsmen and
twenty patrolmen and plain clothes men
from the Eldridge street station kept the
night crowd moving in front of the theatre
and 80 warded of any rioting, much to the
disappoiptment Of the East Side Wireless
News tappers.
lif lFhl VNNAtCAAFChS Va NbD NRy "He nv
O'Clock in the afternoon, when Mr.. Zeltner
formed the protesting actorines, decked
Ike the tiger lilies of the field, in line back
Of the band and started the parade. First
there were six policemen, who comprised
the first section. Mr.. Zeltner and the
news gathering squad formed the second
section. Then came the comets, followed
by Miss Ida Dworkin, the sometime lead
ing lady Of the Irving Music Hall, but now
at liberty.
Last Saturday Miss Dworkin left the
Baum brothers company OF thirteen ac-
tors. The remaining twelve actors and
scJprines. all members OF Local No. S
cf'the Hebrew Varieties Actor Union
decided that the Baums must get some
body to ill the vacancy caused by Miss
Dworkin's retirement. The Baum brothers
thought they would like to run their show
with twelve variety performers. The
twelve artists stuuck.
Yesterday posters we're put up in front
of the theatre informing the East Side
that the theatre would be opened at night
bv actors from the Union Of Industrial
Workers OF the World. As the first union
il not affiliated with the Industrial Workers
union the strikers said that the other
union actors we're -scabs." Hence the
high heeled paraders and the comets and
Louis Zeltner.
Rosey the Lawyer was receiving the con-
graulations Of his friends of the Essex
Market Bar Association in front Of his
suite Of offices Just after Roeey had been
released by Magistrate Baker on an assault
charge when the parade came down Esesx
street.
For thirty years 1 have been talking
with the aid OF my hands in this court
said Rosey, a n when for the first time /
accidentally strike somebody standing too
near 10 my voice / am arrested. But see, my.
friends, how the East Side protests against
this indignity. Down the street comes a
parade Of fine ladies n a band in my
honor. The fire escapes are festooned with
my clients. The police are out to lead this
parade Of vindicaton- Excuse me while 1
weep" E
But hen the parade drew nearer and the
fine ladies' were tripping by to the music
NJ the "Marseillaise,' II was seen that next
to the man carrying the American flag
was another with a banner covered with
upside down lettering, which, although
translated four ways by o~nlookers, at no
time was said to have anything on the
banner about Rosey.
Some said it read This is a our-strike.'
This is a fair strike Louis Zeltner said
II was This is a strike OF the fair" and Sig
mund Schwartz of the pushcart trust in
sisted it was This is a strike for fair"
Then if they are merely strikers they
make a M mistake take t in RSSrsdi HSS,,S said id Rsey:
good lawyer"
Where do we parade nowP' asked
Roundsman Gearty undoubtedly of the
wireless News tapping staff as the pro-
oession Of downtrod reached Broome and
Essex streets.
SOvev ,Rroora straat n ann. othar
street, answered Marshal Zeltner without
a moments hesitation. Then turn EN-
down some other street and in and around
and keep on parading till something hap
pens. And don't let any reporters drop out
of line. How many have We in line now,
Rounds? About 1900. not counting cops
eh? Here, musicians, make a noise like a
band"
The parade promoting marshal then ran
down the line imploring the leading ladies
TO make a noise like an election. He i'm
plored them to sing the words OF the MAR
seilleise" to the music Of the band, but only
one leading lady, Miss Annie Block OF the
Star Vaudeville House. could max a sing
ing in French. The East Side Wireless
News Association thereupon stopped the
parade in order that the Gamers squad OF
The night editions might take a picture Of
Miss Block singing in French.
Nov we'll parade these oppressed people
down to the Office OF the Jepish Daily
EOTUuTU IN EasJ brOHuWay. hOunOS
directed the promoter, and give Max
Pine a celebration. After that we'll go
back 10 the New Clinton Hall on Clinton
street and have a meeting Of indignation.
Everybody with indignations viii there
make a speech. After that we disband to
get something to eat and then well 20 over
" the opening OF the theatre. Maybe
therell be lots OF trouble over there. Maybe
somebody will yell Fret after the house
is filed"
All these things we're done. Max Pine
was celebrated and then all the East Side
marched up to New Clinton Hall and got
Indignation. Tit strikers and their friends
% far forgot themselves in their. indigna-
lion in the meeting that they subscribed
1905 in a few minutes for use among the
strikers, and promised to give over IS per
cent. If their wages till the strike is over
70 the oppressed.
Out in front Of the living Music Hall in
The evening the East Side gathered in dense
mobs long before the doors we're thrown
open. Capt. Murtha and his reserves and
some extra detectives from a detective
agency kept the crowd moving. The
,tast SIDE was very "caRy" for hours n
hooted at the few that entered the theatre.
Early in the evening Mrs. Elsa Tanzman,
q pretty little Jewess, "a years old. was
arrested for distributing dodgers thai in
formed in Iiddish that anybody who went
70 see sCab actor was by that act a scab.
Later ANAL boy heads began to Um the
house ~topsRpver the caRey crowd and sud-
denly a great shower OF the dodgers came
down on the street. Private Detective
Fred SChradar ran i'm IN claar the nOOf