The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-10
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In the midst Of the twenty imported
vaudeville acts which Jared forth al the
Atlantic Garden last night came a lull.
The Elite Lady Orchestra threw back it.
shoulders. The several score musicians
from the Metropolitan Opsra braced their
feet. Prof. Charles Eschert's mustachs
bristlsd a. his baton fell and with deafen-
ing harmony began the American fantasy
which Is 20 place Prof Eschert well ahead
Of Richard Strauss.
While the men were playing a recOndite
'Old Black Joe tho elite ladies' were
antiphOning My Old Kentucky Home,
littlB matter like countsrpoint bOtherinR
them no moro than simple knitting. OF
course the fantasy wound up with The
star SpanEled Ranner' the while n huge
American flag was sent AlOit and thou
sand tiny banners were thrown 10 the
audience. One final. resonant phrase
there was. and the elite lady manipulating
the trombone leaned back in her chair
done up. II the angel Gabriel were 10
appoint her his substitute she felt sure
she could not initiate another quarter note.
A laundering time Il was last night. Tor
tho Atlantic Garden had reached p fifty
second year Significant date. Fifty
two cards in the pack. ifty-two year, In
the cycle and not even the old timers who
were there felt sure that the Garden
would have a ffty-GhiFd birthday.
Perhaps that was partly why the Gar
den was jammed with people. Twenty
thousand invitations had been sent out
by Al and Bill Kramer sons Of old William
Kramer. Who founded his polite resort In
front OF a boal yard. Polite the Garden was
when the YandeTbilis and SchermerhOrns
trooped through the inner door between
acts at the old time Thalia Theatre; polite
u remains to-day. Welcome Is the family
which Its drinking IL beer and laughing
roundly az the patent actor. But let a
youth ,Oule In on a hot summers night
without a coat and he will bo ushered
forth. When the spirit and favor are gone
u h hut the mOre necessary N preserve
the outward conventions No young
man, no matter how ornate and silken his
shirt. ever entered the Garden Coatless
7 IN 1865. Therefore no young man may
. do ~ today.
/ For the old timers who came last night
the Metzes. the DOelgers, the Timothy d
Sullvans and Judge Tom Dinnean had
all periOroe 70 admit a. they he the birth
| day ca dies in empty Rhine wine bottles
/ that the Garden isnt what IL was fifty
years ago or even twenty years hack
h. Italia no longer features Edwin
Booths nor stages grand opera The con
Meeting door "a oniy an excuse for a red
light and a numbered exit 10 the theatre
WHOSE plAybills are IN Yiddish and whose
patrons are not of a breed Carriages no
longer come 10 the Gardens doors Across
the way the Manhattan Bridge rears t.
self, retreating apparently. hut actually
retching out with caWs hich may sweep
the Garden 70 limbo
~ the few survivors sat by themselves
IN Al and Ball krAmer's little once and
recalled the -oenes all over. each word
Coniuring up piCturps Of times when 5taid
Germans sat listening 70 the MUSIC and
PAID no heed % the show, when the first
mammoth orChestriOn was installed add
/ rImhled ~ melodies - aWesomelv YOU
reverenoed it when Nine Blechschmidt
marshallrd the first female orchestra.
contounding unbelicverE when Emma
CaFts made the auditorium echo her
songs, when Old William Kramer turned
.luF paNe INTO q recruiting station Tor
Union soldiers. when national hanquets
were spread az the long tables And all
agreed feryently that anos the spirit II
the place had irrevoCahly changed. since
aliens only thronged there % drink beer
and gunaw az the show. ignoring thu
operate music Prof Eschert 10 proudly
conducts. Il was at least consolation %
SO the Gardens untouched shell and n
note how Won < men without coats were
yet refused admission
y do not know what shall vet b. done. .
said Prof EsChert a. he pAtted his fore
head with a silk handkerchief. hut %
preserve the eGternals that Il some
thing NIGHT wahr' Yes. Oscar Hammer
stein himself could not restore old Elories.
though he might imbue M with present
achievement But We are an institution
and We have prestige
/ Then they got 10 talking in saddened
tones ot Uncle Charley Morlath. who died
last Friday Uncle Charley had been
4 manager u the place since is opening.
haif century ago. Il seemed morally
sl.ur.....H.-llulsHHl