Evening star., 1926-03-21

The part of the history uf his fine
Old man -- Leonard Groy er - which
oarticliiarly interested me was this:
While at the head OF the Grover
Grand German Opera Company Mr..
Grover p"e4nl-ed 'F;uS-' and Tam
hausei' in h;'ad~;phia and q tho New
York Nr;iirnt' nt Music !a@re than
half century ago ANON: MS other
"n1erprises W@~ tha Grover 'fh"ater il
Wa shingtum. -. {. nurir:, his re-
cime there hr came in Frequent rcv-
>onal couta'f With President ;.lncoin,
who often attended performances at
his thcater with Ar%. Lincoln and Sec
rotary Seward. NJ. Grover would re
late the cNci.in& incidents Of the even
ing when he jumped onto the box OF
Mir. Linculn's carriage after the play
md drove the President home through
= disordelly crow i t;iat had gathered.
Growers Thea; or in Washington.
That prickod nay memory. Yet. did
not rememter where Growers Theater
was. know that II hundred old
timers-if SO many read these ram
hles-will feel disappointment. or will
rhortle at the ignorance o: the Ram
bier. But pray. do not nj once write
him Il letter of reproof. for he has
looked the matter up and before you
read many lines of this story you will
he told where Growers Theater was.
when it opened. and other facts about
il which could be quickly got.
When il became necessary to find
the when and where of Growers Thea.
ter. | thought | might get help from
some of my companions-in-penS on
The Star. Many of them are younger
than You and |, but the wisdom Of
Young persons is so much keener than
"lrs and their knowledge so much
more extensive thar ] thought the
plan might work. | Went into one of
our large rooms infested with journal
lists, and said ~ = loud voice. as
though talking to nlvseif: II reckon
I'll call il a day work and drop into
the matinee at Growers Theater to
hear Frank Mayo in Davy Crockett,
hut if MIR. Dufiield wont let me in l
think I'll go over to Lincoln Hall and
hear John Il. Cough lecture on TEN
perance.'"
None of the young generation of
journalists looked up from his literary
efforts, though one leaned across his
desk to a neighbor writer and said:
synthetic gin does funny things to
some people" And the other said:
I've seen the wagon called for less
than that And the other said: Yep.
and the office pays him n salary in
stead Of a pension Growers Theater
seemed to he forgot
A few minutes later I pushed the
hutton for my messenger boy Joe.
The other part of his name is Brod-
erick. That makes me think of q
Washington boy. son of a stone cutter,
who rose to fame. was elected a
nited States Senator and was killed
in a duel. He was David Colbreth Brod-
erick, who was born in Washington in
1919, went to New York and became
conspicuous in politics as a Demo
"rat that he has been called "a power
in Tammany Hall" He went to Cali
fornia In the early rush. was a po-
litical leader for several years. was
elected to the United States Senate
i'm 1857 and was killed in a duel by
David S. Terry, Supreme Court justice
uf California, in 1859. Terry, on
August II, 1889, attacked Justice Field
of tho United States Supreme Court
in the dining room of the old Central
Pacific eating station at Lathrop.
calf. and United States Marshal
David Maggie, accompanying Justice
Field shot Terry dead
i * :, j:
WELL. l pushed the button for
Joe and Sent this note to young
journalist: kindly tell me where
t;rover's Thcater was" And this note
came back: Dear Harry: Growers
Theater is not on my list of movie
theaterS and it is not in the phone
book" Then ! went into The Sar'S
library to look through the indices Of
the Columbia Historical Society.
use "indices' because many of my
readers will not know it's meaning and
j is therefore loftier literary style.
Wien ! recall to YOU that the singu-
tar nominative is index" the genitive
''ndicis' and the plural nominative
.'indices' il will be clear to YOU. And.
i v"n are resdtD- this I" Your wife.
IL. e. :: IL. II 4 t,4e affection