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New York productions and the sing
I ing and dancing is good and the COS
! tunes lavishly beautiful but that
Z they are better than anywhere else IS a
mistake. Vance Fulkerson's girls az
I the Alhambra looked just as well and
I danced as we'll There is no criticism
/ Of the shows as productions but an
this talk OF naughty New YORK 81
[ just Advertising 10 get the moncr OF
the Ruben from koi-omo and Fl Paso
except in cases where TIE managers
hire these Frenchy persons % DO re
/ dressing acts on the stage Then it
is just disgusting vulgarity-
Plenty OF Good shows.
New York never had a period when
there were more good shows than now
With Abraham Lincoln" .Lightniu' &"
the revived "FlOrodora." Willie Col
lier's ''Hottentot." Belasco's Gold
Diggers." and others OF merit running
here, there are plenty Of worth while
attractions. "FlOrodora' is a great
production. as revived by the Shu-
berts and let US hope IL goes on tour
OF the country. The costumes are as
elaborate as the designer can make
them and you cant Beat the tuneful
old songs that made this play the
rage Of twenty years ago when John
US were Young men,
Some new songs have been wUrHed
into the attraction and some OF me
jokes have been 9rOuEht up 20 date.
but il is astonishing now many Of The
jokes that were a part II she original
script have been retained and
are good today because they have
been forgotten or are applicable
Old Time Jokes.
For instance. Tweedle Punch the
phreuologist. springs one 10 this ef-
not taxed today" IL was written 40
a time when we had the tax on tlinEs
following the Spanish war and e
didn't have TO be changed a bit 70
apply 81 today.
And you still laugh when someone
so year-0ld man and he says An
octogeranium-" That joke was writ
ten over q years ago and it gets as
many laughs at the Century tneater
today as Lew Dockstader's newest Z
puus get at keith's-
mind you: Yes. / swear some You
ought TO HEAR me put a tire on my :
And here is another that arose out
Of the war OF 1855 and gets a laugh I
again now because IL seems so timely; !
25-cent pieces; I was quartermas- J
ter"
The Prohibition Joke.
And here is apother that time has +,
not dfmmed: What nohler ambition I
can n woman have than 20 draw all Z
mony from some good man.
or this one; sober me up, viii T
you7 Why sober me Up after all 7 !
have done for Tou- Il goes even /
better TODAY than Il did 20 years ago, l
for anything that refers 20 our na- /
.ional drouth gets a laugh or hiss In /
4 New York theater-
The whole burden o. all the clown 4
Ing In the Barnum & Bailey circus i
AZ Madison Square garden is prohl- I
lition and liquor.
And, By tie way. this circus IS one I
81 the real attractions in New York I
today They are going on the road I
IN May. but they have been pack KING
the garden for a month Dexter Fel-
ows. Of the press department, had al I
he newspaper publishers as his /
guests this week
The Great HipPodrome.
The Hippodrome management also
mad US there II IS such a stupendous
hing that as the youthful reporter
would saw. 1T beEgars description
The last scene IS positively astonisn-
NJ. The HiDpodrome is one thing in
y eM OK LlNaA mas llAA A01-- % A- e--- d
-ertised and any visitor who fails
10 see 80 IS missing something worth
with over 200 girls swinging ap-
larently in midair among the moons
md the stars on the giant stage the
treat spectacle IS closed with about
.ortv girls marching right I'D out OF
/ huge tank OF water along the front
u the stage. carrying Neptune forks
hat spout water; then a tremendous
low OF water. looking like the
Niagara. bursts forth between the
audience and the Swinging girls' a ai
fountains across the 'front.' OF me
itage play their sprays back over The
water uymphs- Colored lights add 10
he beauty OF the thing
u would seem rhat IN the pro1uc-
ion Of this spectacle human lngenl-
ty had reached the height OF its ac-
.omplishment- Il is not delusion- The
publishers were placed in boxes 50
.hev could see the workings OF the
whole thing. Those girls actually
anne up out Of the water. Just as
.almly as II they were climbing the
yrand staircase in the Waldort-As-
New York Is a great place 10 be
Unused II YOU pick the right enter
II IS the greatest place 20
,e buncoed in the world II you follow
he crowd and 90 10 the places ad-
,To 70 as they say Of all OF Us
back home"
Mr.. Martins next article viii II
tell what prohibition has done 10
the night life Of New Nork-amd N
he will quote some OF New 1Ork's
newest jokes II
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