New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-07
WALLACK'S VICTIM
IN ROMAN HOLIDAY
Its Historic Furnishings
Butchered by Second
Hand GladiatOrS.
BIDS RESOUND
WHERE ACTORS TROD
Charles Burnham Chief Mou.ncr
as Famous Theatre Is
Stripped of HonOrs.

"Tts something like o funeral. I'll
be glad when it's all done" said
Charles Burnham, lessee OF historic
WALLACE 5, yesterday, as ne stood in
the lobby talking to Everts Jansen
Wendell.
Everything IN the old house was
ticketed mo. 90" hung on the sign
leading TO IL 5moking room. mo. 235"
was fastened to the carpet on those
steps where so many gay feet have
trod. Even the queer old tin ticket
box was labelled and ready to be sold.
Sharp faced men, who spoke in de-
cidedly foreign accents, STROBE ABOUT
the lobby, chewing cigars and laughing
as if it were q holiday. II was &
Roman one for Wallack's. II was the
auction sale.
81 won't really miss il until come
back from the farm in the fall" said
Mr.. Burnham, gazing critically at one
Of the second hand dealers, who, al!
unconscious that this was the death OF
a great institution. was industriously
feeling the quality" OF the plush IN
q chair seat.
ooh. YOU want to know about some
of the Interesting people who nave
been here?" he went on. We'll, there
have been o lot of actors, OF course
people like Bill Seymour, Charlie Ste
vens, W. s Barnes, and plenty OF oth-
ers. II seems queer TO see the Old place
going like this, don't 1t?
"The big drop curtain, that cost
sl.1OO, sold for $40; the electric switch
board. worth Sl,275, went for so. An
old lady came this morning. she haG
her heart bent on an armchair, ana
got the auctioneer to let her nave IL
for q small price. Her husband used
to be q musician here. lie used 10 slt
in il when he played. Now he Is Ill az
home, but he wants the chair 10 slI IN
Then, a young man came IN he
bought a chair from Box E-said ne
used to sit in that very chair when ms
father brought him here as a little
bow. A hotel man who was always q
regular patron bought the cocoa mats
from the lobby, and says he VIII use
them" A..
The fixtures, including the seats the
great chandelier, small lights, carpets,
etc, went for practically nothing az
the morning sale. In the afternoon
the pictures and manuscripts ana play
books were sold from the stage. 80,
Half the house was in gloom, until
the lights were turned on: Upstairs
men were tearing away the Dalcohy
seats. which groaned in despair as
thew left their fastenings. The same
men who had bargained so astutely
for the fixtures in the forenoon loungeec
into the parquet seats, where formerly
Iaces and satins rustled. They kept
their hats on, still smoked vigorously
and INDUCED in such care-free, pleas
antries as Smoking in the balcony
only" Charlie Chaplin's, due now,
and "When do the bare-legged girls
come on?" O.. u
Two steel engravings Of Sir Henry
Irving and g. V. Brooke as Hamlet ano
Iapo brought just so cents; souvenir
nrogramme of the closing performance
at the theatre 60 cents, and theatre
nrogramme dated March "a, l84h 50
A mirror used by Lester Wallack SOLO
for 1.5O to III. Brown" photographs
of William II. Crane, Henrietta eros
man. David Warfeld, Joseph Jefferson
bernard Shaw and Lily Langtry
brought respectively rs cents, SIP
$3.50. S1.25. Sl.25 and ST.. After BID,
ding that began at 10 cents, and went
M cents at a time, an engraving o.
George Washington was sold LOT oC
cents 10 a man with a name someIhihs
lilo Krnmentschyi,