The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1904, Page 9

| (2 Hy | = == former— Again! Tony Pastor, who this week eclebrated his thirty-ninth year as a manager, smiled nt hin ttle joke. It was his first offense, He had been seriously leading mo of names and mely careful to ‘be correct, for it might be sald that ‘the walls of his stuffy little office had @ers, covered as they were with old play bills which could prove or dis- Prove anything he might cay, One pannot talk at random in such com- pany, and ocasionally, to be sure of bis facts, Mr. Pastor would call through the door leading to the box office: Harry, did So-and So make his itret @ppearance on the Bowery, or was it at the Broadway house?" And Harry 8. Sanderson, who has been manager for Mr. Pastor sinco 1872, always had the desired information on the tip of his tongue. I firmly belleve thet elther Mr. Pastor or Mr. Sander- gon could remen#yer where he left his umbrella. “I can remember things that hav- pened thirty or forty years ago more easily than I can something which urred two weeks ago,” said Mr. "ve been in the show busi- Bess fifty-seven years, Mine has been & regular continuous performance. @uess I can lay claim to being the @riginel continuous performer, ch, bth sir,” came ever ready coniirma- a from the box office. a a a a SF ¥ first regular engagement,” re- Mise Mr, Pastor, “was at Bav- Messe? Museum, Broadway and Ann strect, in 1817, I played the tam- bourine in a minstrel company of four People, I also sang songs and, for a bl had a very good voice.” ‘What was your first song? “‘Btop That Knocking.’ Yes, it was & good song. One of the best minstrel bongs ever written. It was the kind of bong a man would sing to himself while be was brushing his hair or butioning his collar. They don't write ‘em now- @days. How much do you suppose 1 jet for singing it and thumping the bourine? ‘Two dollars a week. Sat- fsfled? Yes, indeod. I'd have sung it fer nothing. You know a boy, ¢s- ent” ® boy with burnt cork on his 66 the original continuous le performer.” the “boy” .of long ago closed his @yes and Jeaning back in his chair softly hummed “Stop ‘That Knocking. “Don't think he came to ‘knock,’ ” @alled “Harry,” as for a moment the @linking of coin ceased, a wt w a tt OMLNG out of his musical reverie . Mr. Pastor resumed his story: “In the spring of '47 I started out with Raymond & Waring’s Menagorle, from which grew the big Barnum & Batley circus, now at Madison Square Garden. I was in tho minstrel Bideshow. Later I joined John J. Nathan's circus. My brothers, Frank and Will, were alrcady with the vhow. I was ‘Anthony’ then,” Peking up an old bill and pointing to Mr. Pastor Lays Claim to Being the Original Continuous Per. “Stop that Knocking’’ His First Song— Still Hears Jokes He Toid Fifty Years Ago—Mcintyre and Heath Only ' Old-Timers Left—But “Tony” Gibes Warning He May Sing Ms name. “I joined the show at Welch's National Amphitheatre in Philadelphia, and remained there throughout the winter of ‘47, In the spring I went with Welch, Delevan & Nathan's circus, os clown, tumbler, rider, singer and dancer, then, in turn, with the Sands & Nathan and the Spalding & Rogers shows. War excite- ment finally killed the circus business, and as a resujt, in the fall of ‘6, I made my first appearance in a variety theatre. This was at Frank Rivers's house, the Melodeon (another bill came off the wall) in Callowhill street, Phila. delphia, I was a comic singer and was the biggest salaried momber of the com- pany, getting $25 a week. I made a big hit with a war song called ‘Brother Jonathan,’ and wore a get-up to match the song. In the spring of ‘61 I secured an engagement at Wallack's Theatre. Broadway and Broome street, then managed by R. W. Butler. After that I went to No. 444 Broadway, where I re- mained until the spring of '. There was smoking and drinking and bar maids in the New York variety theatres those days, and it was a change for us, I can assure you, when the company was taken to the Boston Museum, which was a regular kid-glovo sort of place. The show, however, drew such crowds there that by 8 o'clock nearly every night the stairs had to be barricaded.” CT ee! H' Mr, Pastor lighted one of the two cigars to which he restricts himself every night. He had reached the important point in his nar- ratlve, “Thirty-nine years ago Tuesday," he sald, watching a ring of smokeYoreak upon @ programme yellow with age, “Sam Sharpley and I started out with Tony Pastor's Varlety Company, and gave the first performance in Paterson. Tho salary Ust, including band and or- chestra, was $25 a week. Think of that! Nowadays you can't hire one good ‘act’ for less than $250, We did well, and on July 31, 1805, we went into Campbell's Opera-House, No. 201 Bowery. We took the house for two weeks and atayed there ten years” Maybe {t was tmagination, but I'd almost be willing to swear that Mr. Pastor swelled with prida When he { had resumed his normal alze he went on: “In the summer of '66 I bought out Sharpley and in October, 76, went to No. 685 Broadway, opposite the Metro- politan Hotel. Many of the theatrical stars of to-day got thetr start with me. I didn’t give them their talent, to be sure, but I gave them thelr opportun- ities. Among those who were with me on the Bowery were Harrigan and Tart, Francis Wilson, then of the team of Mackin and Wilson; William Harris, now of the firm cf Rich & Harris; Evans and Hoey, Annie Yeamans and her daughters, Nell Burgess, Billy Scan- lon and others whose names I can't recall just at this moment, “Lillian Russell mado her debut at my Broadway house. She began as a ballad singer, but I afterward put her in condensed versions of popular comic operas, and she made a tremendous hit. I have often gone to Weber & _ New Amsterdan Fields's to hear her, and they tell me that when knows I'm tn the house she always tries to sing her very best. ‘I also brought out Nat Goodwin at | the Broadway house, I heard him sing | and give imitations of actors at a s0- cial peasion of the Elks one Sunday aight, and before he left the room I had ‘nailed’ him. He, with Jennie Sat- terlee, I think tt was, appeared in a sketch called ‘Jerry Cilp, the Stage- Struck Barber,’ and he was ood that before long he was ccaxed away from me. Whenever I meet him now he greets me with a slap on the back and says, ‘My old manager!" Denman | Thompson and May Irwin also got thelr first clutch on fame there. “I remained in that house until Oct, 4, 1881, and then moved over here to Fourteenth street, where Weber & Fields and others well known have fig- | ured on the bills, And here I expect to | to atay till I die." ‘You don't contemplate tetiring?” 0, sir,” was the emphatie answer. “Why should I retire? [ wouldn't know what to do with myself !f T did, It isn't money that makes me want to stay, It's simply the enjoyment of be- ing here, Saturday afternoon {s the onlw time I take off, and then I go to tho theatres.” “What do you think of the plays we're getting these days?" “I haven't seen a bad thing this sea~ son.” ce Cee, ay eo iise for you! wt ee a wt 77 aie fs the greatest changs W that has taken place in vaudeville {nthe Inst half contury?” repeated this veteran of the “variety,” and then he answered, in the ‘one word “Salaries.” “Performers are no better.” he added, “but salaries have grown won- derfully. There never was a song-and- dance team to equal Delehanty and Hengler, nor a dancer like ‘Robby’ New- combe, who stood alone, McIntyre and Heath are tho ouly representatives of the old-style variety performers, and it 1s significant the their act 1s one of the most popular ’o-day, I sometimes ro- vive old ‘act# and find that they go better than the new ones. The troubie {s to get people who can do them, Of course, we have many ‘acts’ now that wo didn't have in the old days, so it's about a stand-off between the old and the new. “And the joki “Same old ‘g: answered Mr, Pas- tor laughing. “Once in a while they do ring in @ new one—but most of them are old reliables that I used to spring thirty and forty the rid t go00d Kelly, ‘the roiting son I ever ent in that line. 1g- inating funny sayings, I've forgotten nearly all the jokes I ever knew, and if any one was to offer me this house packed with $20 bills I couldn't get up ana -couldn't remember the nough vole left? More than h. One of these nights I'm going to walk out on my stage and sing one of the old-timer: “Will_you announce it beforehand?” "No, 1 won't take any chances. I'll spring {t on ‘em as a surprise.” CHARLES DABNTON. “Two Orphans,” with Star Cast, “Piff, week will be A. M. Palmer's re- vival of “The ‘Kwo Orphans” at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Mon- day: night. Scenteally the production will bs the same as the original, which 4 an interesting theatrical event next feoelved {ts premiere at the Union | Square Thentre on Dec. 2%, 1574. Palmer has been conducting rchear 5 ae of D'Fnnery’s plays, and the excen- jonal cust includes Kyrle Bellew 18 the Chevalier De Vaudrey; Charlss Warner as Frocliard, the outlaw; Jamca O'Neill as Plerre, the cripple; Frederick Perry a: Molland as the valet, Picard; Jameson fee Finney as tho Marquis De Prestes Grace George as the dlind girl, Louise; ber Jilington as the other orphan. | mriette; Elita Proctor Otis ag La] hard; Clara Morris as Sister Gene- vieve; Clara Blandick as Mayianne, ‘Annie Irish as the Countess Do teres, o ee _Manager Fred C. Whitney will make ‘ometning of a departure by having an seeping performance on Saturday night. ift, Patt, Pout," with Eddie Foy, Jos. £. Miron, John Hyams, Templar Saxe, Maurice Darcy, George Wiseman, Alice Viecher, Amelia Slone, Grace Cameron, Mabel Hollins, Hilda Hollins and the Original English Pony Ballot, will show M the Casino on that evening, ° . Count De Linteres; 1. M.| ~ Paff, Pouf” and an Ibsen Play Next Week. as Kate Hardcastle in “She Btoops to Conquer. Ben Greet will play Tony Lumpkin. oe Ibsen's “Rosmersholm" will be the | offering of the Century Princess Thoatso during the f of the wock. Florence Kahn will enact, the rolo of the ambitious Rgbecca West, and Willlam Morris will be Rosm On Thursday night Sundermann’s “The Battle of the Butterfiles” will be given, oe. Richard Mansfeld will go to the Harlem Opera-House for a week and jAppear as follows: Monday. “Ivnn the | Terrible Tuesday, “Old Heldeiberg;” Wednesday, A Parisian Romance Thursday, “Beau Brummel;" Friday, "Dr, Jekyl Saturday Matinee, * Saturday night, i The attraction at the Grand Oper House will be Thomas EP. Shea tn three plays. On Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights, "Dr, Jekyt! and Mr. Hyde" will be the bill; Tuesday. Thurs- day and Friday, “The Bell: Wednes- day and Saturday matinees, ‘Cardinal Richelieu." “Turned Up,” one of Nat Goodwin's earlier successes, will be revived by the Donnelly Stock Company at the Murray Hill, Henry V. Donnelly will play Car- raway Bones. Inimitable Rose Melville, in “Sis Hop- { Bnd. Proctor’s Fifty-elshth Street Theatre will have “ihe Man Who Dared, “Quincy Adams Sawyer” will be seen at the Metropoll: “Foxy Grandpa,” with Joseph Hart Jand Carrle De Mar, will be at the Star. | ‘The Shadow of the Gallows” will be #eon at the Third Avenue, The Dewey will have the Brigadier Burlesquers, andthe Gotham the Ken- tucky Belles, Continuing engagements at te: theatres will be: “The Other G Hmplre; "The Girl from Kay's," Her- ald Square or Robson in “-ateraiy Mary Ann," Criterion, last wee fam Gillette in “The ‘sdmirables t um, last week; Willam. IL Thompson in “The, Secret of Poll: Gara by Raymond: P itchcock in je Consul Pprgeaway wie Ly: atre: Elliott tn Hamlet, last Week; Henry F Le Maltre” and "Man Proposes, son, last week; Katherine Kennedy in “The Ruling "Power," Garriek, “Iaat od Honeymoon,” “Acad- the following Mon day wi with Walter erkins in ‘The Super atition of Sue,” bal matineee of Hamlet’ wth Bo’ gtvon at the ieutierbosker on ny. a Performer: al No” PICO (DELON * LOPSIND Evd PPE IIon- Broadway’ w MAGAZINE. GATURDAY EVENING: MARCH 26, 1904, ae medicine for frazzled nervy Marcotic or a stimulant will only produce the imitation of the real condi- tion that you must earn by the exercise self-control and a perseverance in the Jaws tha’ overn health and good looks. very woman needs an abundance of sleep—eight or nine hours at the least. To get into a normal condition after weeks nnd months of defying phyaicnl laws requires the exercise of will power, but It can be done. 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