The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1905, Page 9

URE TER ERM April 8, En rds Tarte ai alNiG AME Aa ahaa Magazine, Saturday Evening, oo) lz The fe sR ie Wom ( Jt“ BY Charles Sarnton— — WATCHING AND ol iia eMheven AROUN! ‘TO SIDE OF moe. geno mM | Srowt Stese ELEVATED Stace ‘coven OF “TANK SUBMERGED GELow THE WATER Yo 60TToM OF ‘TANK, ‘ ——_ “HAT 1S NOT RIGHT, wrth TRY 1 OVER. AGAIN © mini) i OU'LI, open your eyes when you ase the Aippodrome. But you won't be alle to open them wide enough to see it all in one glance, | —= 2 You will find yourself turning this way and that, with your mouth | ae AMUSEMENTS, rr AMUSEMENTS, --in an exclamatory O!—as well as your eyes open. The place is as big all outdoors, It engulfs you, No matter how big youl FDC YORK a HORSES . | may fecl ordinarily, the Hippodrome {s sure to ninke you feel very small, IN BATTLE SCENE Si It dwarfs not cnly you but its surroundings. Eyen Jack's, across the A RUSHING UP INCLINE a | street, shrinks {nto insignificance; the) y TO THE STAGE. yee . tip a i a “bouncer” there becomes a mere pygmy. i = oksne > Ril ad Ae 9} it you'ltke Agures—trankly, 1 loathe them— Ueki Management THOMPSON & DUNDY i {t may delight your mathematical soul to know ne y's Preys led, each capable of independent operation, SCENES ‘* that the main facade extends 200 feet on Sixt hat ion of the stage, 60 feet in depth, which Nes forward of tho BLOCK OF SIXTH AVENUE, 43D TO 44TH STREET. robsetiah aroh is known as the “apron.” it is generally elliptical in avenue, and that the building runs east 240 feet on Forty-third and Fortyy Hora and measures 68 feet in depth ne 92 feet in width, Like the main fourth streets, But what wns more illuminating to me was to see the aun- earieta garried on twelve-inoh hydraulic plungers, with, in tte hers, light stesling in with @ ver travel of 14 feet. Normally, the movable ‘apron’ w: ye at rt ta e B hout a ticket from both sides of the block. the same lev¢l as the main stage. It is large enough to contain two regu- heatregoers liave become used to new playhouses during the past few/ lation circas rings, each 42 feot in diameter, Beneath the “apron” ts , years. They have become so accustomed to them, in fact, that they have) built a Rue steel and conoréte tank, over 14 feet in depth, and large Aacceptyl them as a matter of course, and after a glance and a ‘‘Yes, it's| cough the whole “apron” to sink within it. When aquatic perform- very y," ’ anced or naval éngagements are to be given, the tank Is filled with water, going to try to put the dress sults behind them for a change, I wouldn't] «= Py very pretty,” they have gone calmly to their seats and talked about thelt'| ang th, if ) i th ni ight, I want d d E A il 12 a ¢ movable “apron” is submerged below the water to the bottom of care if there wasn't a dress sult in the house on the opening nig e nes ay venin ’ pr. mn neighbors instead of the house, But the Hippodrome will compel your un-| the tank, people to be comfortable anti 10 come as they please.” Aividat attention, {¢ will exeite your wonder, I¢4 elephante to white mice Pee ae pa a ae. anything’ but confortable Ih ROO Dera AIG TiN Hey Sear amen eee woe ie ah a UOC aan. age Nan.) bie ad rane te geo Rae | A Velvety Complexion AMUSEMENTS. Thereafter Two Daily Performances, 2 and 8 o'clock: | Gee | bli ern PMA AC SASH A oxy vay | go RPG Hg Aa and a Plump Figure) mabison square dakpen, | School Children’s Gala Matinees Mondays at 3 o'clock m that by @ stage manager who gave glowing promise of becoming| enierei another section called on the elephants, They were all perfect ci pertoatat # DOORS SHINY AMEE BARE Bi ; ' nade St GREATEST anew Auction Sale of Boxes at HIPPODROME. hature’s products and. the | ; HE wating ha PRE us Or aoa tet eee Teh at 5 o'clock This Afternoon | aes ° Pould's Medioated Arsenic | THE" pip” OE by ERE o star performer in the psychopathic ward at Bellevue. His! ladion-—all but one, at least--and did everything possible to entertain me. task was enough to drive any one cragy, The stage was so immense that Jennie was so delighted that she stood on her| he yelled himself red in the face trying to make himself heard. Down Among | heao, Adn showed me the latest wrinkle in Comptes acest? pee in| A LADY LOOPING THE GAP IN AN : @ > “Yes,” sald “Bred” Thompson, the creative th i clephautine Delsarte, and’ Maude telephoned, ; Wider Sweeping gentus of Thompson & Dundy, “this etage ts the @ £ ephants. f®omewhere-or-other for something-or-other i eal biggest in the world, Its width of 104 feet takog without saying a single cross word to “central.” perereranrm “h ree Nd git No SemieCire' C5. the palm from La Scala, in Milan, which hos 4/ But thoy were all very much piqued when not a single lump of sugar re- to" Matly’ ‘uve “a. a Geitenttal hi nant Sold | ims PRENES A TS STUPEHNDOUS drugeyste, and at principal department ® stage 80 fect wide, We hullt this stage to anit) warded thelr eflorts, and I came away with their reproaches ringing in my| stores **Bena ‘for fy "manmiteeht Moauty pouBt GE NEOUS TWO INSTALMENTS OF DOUBLE ENTERTAINMENT, the capacity, Just ‘as threa-ring circuses are given these days to make the| ears, Bee ie Tints Ae, : LOOPING THE GAP AND LEAPING | performance fit the enlarger tonts, It's the capacity tliat makes this possible There will be other animals of the feline tribe in glass cages along tho ANUREMANTS: We ‘ ete As a DURBAR les ie ni oxether with all the me lous al erlor —got to have capacity, you know. promenade in the rear of the auditorium, where you may flatten your nose Hippodrome ‘Triple Gres, Double A Tones virews on ‘ANDERSONVILLE* °) le ‘The seating-capucity of the immonse auditoritim ts 5,200, For compori-| against the panes and see a whole menagerie without a smell to its name, | ’ 14TH a by “gon tuke the Metropuiitan Opera-Houre, which seats 3,400 persons, or the| When it ts time for thelr appearance behind the footlights these animals HUBER S ST. MUSEUM Acadeniy of Music, with a capacity of 8,000, ‘These comparisons, héweyer,| will te lowered to ah underground runway and hustled to the stage. TROUPE OF ESQuIMOs, * will not give you an adequate {dea of the vastness of the Hippodrome. Ite On that enotnous a ‘will be spectacle and sensation—"A Yankee 1B 4 herent ) hetkht docsn't impress you, although it rised to.72 feet om Sixth aveniie and| Circus on Mars,” and “Andersonville, a Story of Wilson's Raiders,” i Ha ry vate Ly to 110 feet in the rear. The wide-sweeping sem{-ciroles of orchestra and Some long-distance uoting was in progress the day I was there, The AMPION ma A Story of Wilson’s Ralde rs. ni APA ne Selected Chorus of 350 Voices, War Drama Extraordinary in § Scenese 4 pox Bente, 62 ang “Dance of the Hours" Introducing the Thompson & Dundy Ie price by 144 Girls, Stud of Plunging Horses, Sixty Minutes of Unprecedented Circus, Yalta Thousand Soldiers, gallery bring {t down to earth, sv to apeak. The arrangement te e9 admir-|blue-shirted hero was pausing in his escape to make impassioned utter- Unequalled Orchestra of 60 Pieces, Real Battle, Real Bridge Dynamited to: _ able ttt the entire a can be seen from every seat, ‘ances to his Bouthern sweetheart, rl EMPIRE JHEATHE, broadway & 40th ot Musical Extravaganza, Comedy, het Atoms, | Mr, ‘Thompson has succeeded where so many others bave falled, He haa| ‘Take him away, he's ¢, Oulerined intertupted the stage manager.” | LAs? a Wistics, Lane d dau alncs Pantomime, Circus, ¢ Limit and Climax of Theatrie WM. . GILLETTE |} cK BOX OFFICE OPENS MONDAY, Reallets Pan Hi i Prices 25¢, to $1. ats on sale four weeks in. advance,| Seats, $1.50 to 82, 1,5 AR’ Patrons are requested to assist the man-| seats in the family ai eae faneay. AnnieRussell, Jimmy the Carrier agement in eliminating seat Speculation| trance on 43d st. Doo ERRBH ABS tiRAt HU acny. ae Gente ets jby } purchasing tickets as early as possible,! 7 P. M, Hides tA | SSUR NGE Mix Billa Je goltroye | BELAS' AP ORAL CoRR dosh nigh: 2; MatGats | EW AMSTERDAM, ‘To-Ni WDSON a ga aie |||LESLIE CARTER = a ie Ni ei aa, ‘eta ey KERGINEA | HARNED, ACADEMY UF Bi i iiPuane Bi | sea Pal The. Ou 4. er ae Y ted & long; relentless finger at 90 4! va = found a way to “elevate the siage;" also, like many managers before Simi, to| But he didn't mean the hero, He pointed s long) i Byte SPs + © lower it. ‘To speak mechanically, agit were, the stage ia in*two parts, one in yt geek ofa oats wi Pid boone yh (9 aocommodate an fact oat Sealy, mathe Bory Bien ut ta Box and Loge “the rear, the other in front of the proscehiwm arch, If you want'to know! Wien the adared “local color” had hobbled into oblivion, and the hero- Fiat ft ORITERION SHAT, NARY WAKNERING | ih ANY Silk it it, here are enough prepared facts and figures @ wos ordtting a horse for her Yankee lover, a heartless-looking man + ote ahont ” Hp Want: S6i ante ‘an unwilling, unhappy red fox acroes the stage. The fox, it was ‘ ‘ ined to me, was put to all this inconvenience in order to furnish a PE Se Anat a Spent. thet the bloodhounds would follow across the stage, ‘The barking of Gish Bi ay HB depth of the stage froni the extreme front to the back wall is 110| the dogs was beard, and when the fugitive galloped off on bis best girl's feet, or 60 feet from the pack wall to:the proscenium opening and 60 horse, ‘a pack of ploodtiounds came romping on and made faces at the| To Build a Home for the Indigent, feot from the arch to the front of the atige, "Tho main samy, wt the |PPotnt ail Mita Bees does id artnet ti Masonic Hall, 284. St, and 6th Av, he Helr ape the Hos SAVOY 7 FRAT tath st, ne “ine bunch of muts, these dogs!’ groaned the stage manager—which | in PARLE - Pear of the arch, measuren 60 feet im depth by 200 in width between |meant mor work for Mr. Fox, Rich Pritts Low PriceesMany Atiiactions, | A Case ‘OF a eset | Blanch le Bates ; ne : "igs lest be rine Bll dherdaretpe ert cg, adh hh Be OE MO FPN oy | TAN FOPRINGE OF PILSEN, ptr Dean pana he ipa bets Sid 1 canadio of * ATOHING a circus on Mars made me wonder how Mr. Thompson | f'wa: Brest itn et| afta bi : MAJESTIC oS BUS ite ‘BR ee ee a Pere ee ee ie Da eee th mare sired isi boyish way, "I’ve made so BROADWAY : | PROCTOR’S “BIG FOUR ‘ the Gren’ Yana P 4 tecmed the| oat Hen PEoRODOK | roves mie a PNM) ee 2 i HRA) othe County abothers trips to the moon at Luna Park that a trip to Mars seemed the| CAST MYER," natural thing in the world, or, rather, out of it. The only thing thet me, was finding an exouse for taking a circus there. I found it sf while at breakfast one morning last fall. I read novel. Bh infor, Peay io 8 newapaper that Forepaugh’s & Sells Broth- Martie od nya bg He ‘Bantatta nib Mat Soe, hte > CIRCLE ers’ show was to be sold at auction, ‘Just the AB, 3. SRE ae | Bye 35. Ma U5, Mat. Sat., 2.15, thing!’ 1 paid, ‘I'll have my circus sold at auc- Meni ie a pide Vconchah wi | MRS, FISKE | Lean Kieschna LYCEUM Rirey..a8" st, CORNELL Nianr, Cort RaE wibow 7 GANDHA tHTBA, Monday Bt | aiormal levels te ah The moyable stage ts provided: beet gulded in its vertical movement, catia Bid’ Latell, wat GRAN 14 CRANE ices AREER orn « ae Next Wednesday Afternoon (fast Time). are carried the sheaves for the ecun ai : tion and bid in by @ messenger from Mars’ 1|———! 5 | Baad ASA by tn, BY Fels ee Jon i ! ; ; lie’ while riding on a train in Germany, 7 eas dice! Ma side of the tag are vr, ld, mary wile ie oe us (Greeny Ted hens | Garrick wieig gh awit] 0 Aas, WOODLAND || ==DEWEY] Weelt ts coat j battle to mak ly 4 DAH J lath St. | Bunda) “eo Fe ae ie anos, [Armold, Daly, Sod SEAN | COLONIAL ™z ae angeutzae[ESBGOTHAM| iter Aa “at any deatred el iron The ogy rang vm : mueon wore a politician he couldn't exhibit: more Interest a PHBL TRRneTE foto Oirara, Bias iasih 68d Av, : an eh: Rat re et ate PASTOR'S shin = LYG SB RSMAS big A edd meng sogeRiy Zakk AR BO CA GLLANTON GAHON & HEVARRO: | ~ 4 att SHE S| BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTE : HR not a HATH "EAI SM, A ada a 5 : E i peer APNG! SOURS,