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AGGIE CLINE once told me: | “There aren't any Irish-| You SATON " 4 | THE STOOP ANDO men left in New York—| THE NEIGHBORS they've all turned Yankees.” BROUGHT THE “Did Maggie say that?” sald rare| old “Ned” Harrigan, more in sorrow | than in anger. “Well, anyhow’— he wouldn't flatly contradict a lady— “there were a few of them in the Parade on Saturday.” He had shuffled into his dressing- room at the Murray Hill Theatre af- ter a performance of “Old Lavender,” with the shabby gentility of other days stamped upon the worn and wrinkled frock coat and the battered plug hat.‘ At any rate, times and types had changed. | “Yes, I suppose they have,” ad- mitted the man who fifteen and twenty years ago found so much rich Stage material on the east side “But “Well, human nature !s always the) go home singing them. And happy, same when you get to the bottom of |care-free boys they were! They didn't it, of course. Still, audiences have| worry if they were out of a job, for Vy ZO. ae Oly emma? LS changed with the times. The lobster|they knew they could get another o the real Irishman {s still to be found | is largely responsible for that. A! without going far. It's not such an in New York. The good old ‘harp’ —s ereat many people go to the theatre y matter these days, when a lad fs still here, my boy, but he’s not so ~—s72 SLPS FK AT | these days thinking ns much, if not|can't get anything unless he has a easy to find as he was in the old days. ! more, about the lobster they're going) pull. I always loved the boys In the. It's the town that’s changed, not the bunior always gets the best of them,({ng locality for's new play of type®.| ig eat atier the play than they: do|allery—and, oh, but they were the! Irishman. You may move an Irish- And as soon as the Italian is able to| There would also be difficulty {n find- about the play itself. They remem- ties! Nothing bad could get byt |forget his Sicilian vendetta he will|/!n& actors to impersonate cutee, ber the lobster—sometimes they can't|them. An audience offers « great |be another fellow, mark my words,|Pecullar to certain sections of NeW rorgot jt—and the musical comedy study in human nature. You know America 1s the home of humor./York. The new-school actor hea 0) +114, imey got at the restaurants and| that the couple who come In smiling Heaven knows there used to be plenty| Knowledge of New York that begins) ink of the play ns a mere Incident] are out for a good time, and that it of tt on the east elde. It was easy/and ends in Long Acre Square. fe of the evening. In my old days I|won't be hard work entertaining) enough to write a play then, My |comes from the West, picks up @ Iit-| i cned without the lobster. After|tham. Then the next couple: you only trouble was in getting up a plot| tle barroom persiflage and fondly i. show Mike and Jerry would £0! can see by the look on the man’s face to hold {t together. You sat on the|!magines that he knows every Letmldl the stand on the corner and have|that he's had a kick with his wifes stoop of an evening and the nelghbors|of New York life. I used to pick my thelr dorzen oysters without musle|and you realize that its going to tie brought the jokes. You didn’t have|actors—boys and girls who knew the| 3 man, but you can't change him. It’s many a good old ‘harp’ I could show you, with his humor ringing as true ag ever {t did. The real Irish have not disappeared—they've only been Scattered. The Latinization of their old quarter is responsible for this.” |ered there and had a good time to- Then the opportunity for humor- gether, There was comfort and good ous, picturesque plays of East Side|cheer, and humor thrived. You can’t life had been carted off in the mov-| expect much domesticity where they vith the songs of aunts ‘ i ing van. The to go out looking for them. The|netghborhoods in which the scenes of nd then Bo He i ae Gin e nee e ae ete sea ti green had been taken | have to rent the fire escape, can you, go out e ere laid, ‘That wes the|™Y Plece running 6 cour: if he's an Irishman an s out of the color scheme, and “Ned” |now? One of these days, however, real thing was left right at your|my plays w salon imac jneaaa.” n Irish play things will probably, Harrigan would never write another | some one is going to get the making | Goorstep. ‘There's plenty of humor eed piney they were talking) “They were good songs,” I |come out all right.” play? He admitted as much. ‘ot a good play out of the Itallan still, but no neighborhood. It a/ They what they were doing It I|msrked. | “Would that hold good with Shaw “With the changed conditions it quarter. Now the Itallans are only zeae ante be pee a pore nat aa fe ree etre 1 asked, “They were,” agreed Harrigan.) and his ple would be impossible for me to write dramatic, but before many years, I : “And they were part of the piece haw’ day he would probably ask, ‘Where is| should go into the vaudeville houses one of the old kind,” he said, “and believe, some one will see other pos- F ‘They weren't dragged in, There was! the repl 4 TECH the new style of play isn’t in my sibilities in them, Just as an irish HARRIGAN |Shantytownt!) ‘The boy who pales Gaia Pa eo alwayse place for them, ‘They came, Buil's Other Island’ he ridiculed his Ine, A man may be a@ success in|man tikes a new view of his son |dosenaes sonia Dare oso ,upuend ae two about New York. There's along naturally, and the audience own country—and no resl Inistmam the delicatessen business and be a when the lad throws him on his back BED ee Bd eed Gea be a etaes Gucigel in eatore? |iied. them all ‘the better for that ever does that” failure at selling dry goods; I'll for the first time. Louis Mann gives| “OLD LAVENDER” | what ite Oy bins ieee palit ies tn audiences also?” | reason The boys in the eollery would | CHARLES DAR never attempt to sell dry goods. ja fresh giimpse of Past Side life in| ORs 2 There you have it.” |his new play, and they tell me War-| “And the East Side of to-day of-) field is doing the same in “The | fers nothing?” ! Muste Master.” “Nothing in my line. It's dramatic! “Poverty and oppression have never| now, not h rous. It has become crushed the humor out of the Irth,” Russianized. is crowded with peo-|I remarked by way of recalling him ple who have had the humor crushed to his own, | out of them by the poverty and op-/ ‘True enough,” he answered. pression of thelr own country. In “Nothing can crush {rish humor, It's the good old days everybody had a the top of the earth, isn’t It now?) parlor, and after the day's work the | An Irishman can forget his troubles! bezel with a nelehtor or two, gath-/ without half trying, so he can. His| AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS. in yeeeunennen ALAA AAA DAAATA EASED TOADS E89 in the th Street. The Largest, Costliest Playhouse as Bea Coc toanie, Ousre Chairs for All at the National Theatre. THE ONLY HIPPODROME IN AMERICA. _ NEW YORK HIPPODROME ABRAHAM LINCOLN DRAMA AND MANSFIELD _ Fen ee alum EIaol IN “THE SCARLET LETTER” NEXT WEEK : What |sthe Greatest A SOCIETY CIRCU DanIMOUS HUEY 66] “tein “chanin wit'be of | ia "Fothe Buta tig oP e Will) Kons Sttnante, Scmae Saya He dndetraaten ad thes'* | § Chow on the Barth? the Press. it, 4nd Mary Richfield in “Mag, Haggerty's “The Girl with the Red” Donino" | fered at the Liberty Theatre| ‘The musical comedy “In New York] Ri thi hs epi e family of | Will be the headliner at Hurtig & Sea-| i ; ae = * = y (intial de cepaecan et on Monday evening, The author, who| Town" ‘will be the attraction at th cae horne and’ Carleton, dient | ons, Othere will be the Three Cran “‘A Society Circus,’ with} jg the 20th CENT URY CIRCUS “Rj pitas ove Greatest has given geveral years of study to the |“"iove “to Be Pitted than Scorned! K Mitrray” and Clara Lane: Jou sinx: bury Brothers ond ‘Datyea an Court of the Golden Fountains, is paler the title role. The| wil the offering et the Murray Hi! | Weil's Guanteten eg rs and Jon mer, Wilton \ter= ; ; scua Sees eeacaldtte, che wnioeneene: ras yee at be seen ta Sl | AL Ne AIRAIDEEC Hehe th seeks: | brcton sruay eae Tits end Wilson... 3 at the Hippodrome, a magnificent 1" Rand of Gordon Highlanders, Rice and| | At the Atlantic Garden will (ba the | spectacle, savage in its gorgeous- Rigs oor ogee Nawateers In the first act the home life of the t | revost, “The Globe of Death," May | Majestic Trio, the Lawre rio of ll as refined in. taste . the finest ‘ballet in veare,”’— husband and father is shown and ya- a Selfort. Edmund Day end oo Be yin acrobate, | Sadie Hart Reeves and Kenny ness as well as int id - anu rious characters of romantic and sent!- ne | a Se ee Brerybody in America se nee “Parla and London have seen gorgeous mental interest are introduced. This) MSY OPO" fica Avenue ‘Theatre will be to the Hippodrome, 5 a Tieaat npeccanteee Ce f AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, : 19'to Haaticanon fh compariaan Act closes with the news of the gall of| “Bh Hinge ae ee will be | cnn AMUSEMENTS: lel SON & DUNDY HAVE] «The like of which was not dreamed by the creator of the Arablan Nights. 99 ae comparison ‘ fe Bostety Circus en ¢| $ MADE BARNUM ie BAIS thE 1 bare description, No won can "S CLAIM Oo .T : ihagulticenoe.'—Bve. Sun. ‘ EIREATEST SHOW. ON Each Circus Feature, = ule —— Comic iN ITS ABSURDITY, the greatest of its kind, imported exclusively for the oe ee a aan The Hippodrome would have put] New York Hippodrome. The Show that is too large] itis ‘anPimadMsshotitill" 8 Sy Hippodrome sbow has ! en exceeded the Roman Coliseum out of to travel. ‘ Not depending upon a 2-minute sensation, but] s!eps"osunedya Ne Pe hined Fort Sumter and Léncoln's tender of ie —————eeews the portfolio of War In his Cabinet to “tne Gothana, will have "The New York ; (MADISON SQUARE GARDEN EMPIRE Bye 8a aT & 10th his bitter political opponent, Edwin M. Stars’ Maude. 2 Stanton. In the yecond act one of the| VAUDEVLLE ATTRACTIONS. meee scenes is lald in the War Office, where | at Hammerstein's will be Fred Wal- Criterion ZEA Lincoln's diMoutdes with polftical {n=} ton, “The Toy Soldier,” a his com- | Fraticls Wilson : shown, and in which his’ pany in “Cissie’s Dream;" Prank Bum, | I iG Leech eee io acwe additional ; Harcourt, Meers Brothers, Junie | GREATEST DALY’S Er aga ery aha troops, with which the tide was turned @ and company, Cabarete’ (| Ranier and ae at Gettysburg, Is depictel. In the third s, Wood and Ray, Ranler and Ga SHOW ON EARTH Lawrance D’Orsay oy es ” VUVHVO VUE VUTU VOD T VE NTUHUTHT ETE TTORUETTRTETETERUE RITE ERT eT REED REROEDUERTEREEETETNIT. : at hat ended : business and have caused the ing 180 minutes of the world’s marvels. empompson (@. Dundy: have <xcesieh wet ne datittion of the Uivon, but thia | ,Prpctor's Theatres: At feadae de DKOME SEASON SOW Spat Evenoy | | HUDSON TEAM Hho a gladiatorial contests to be given providing prises the highest-salaried artists in the wider ee, Tours Fetuimed Into Joy. by, the news of the | ee ete of Aron.” Kits QEIAMNOON AT WAND EVENING at | | OTIS SKINNER A ae to empty benches.”—Channing The Hippodrome circus OOIRe never betave ceanl Ia Amnietic cakes, Deven’ anytiiing seen on a New v é en- | 5 the 01 r vi e a 01 age." —N. ribine Vistorltl Glecuasses @ad Meade’ at Get: | ihraney end bee mye oppety Cay tilicr weer est o Ape pilin “ot act oe. mem | | SIVOY THEATRE. ae ated ot ev O18 Pollock in Ainslee’s Magazine. world, Each a Euporean headliner n i of his wife Summer nagerie, Sc Last 2 coe ang ae HL ithe inet of She asta Sloss. Gk. Mina ratcinand en ni SA, Me gin ata! atte | | Pee * pot usts, COMMENCING WEDNESDAY, MS ce ders of sot of the play, and the curtain | Gils, Emma Krancls and ret nore Home. ete and In time tor the misieal pres ima $0. TH ae cE Cc tion With All the Wonders o falls on his departure from the WH? ‘The bil at the Pifty-cighth Street , “GRORGE f the Home of Sensations Introduced in Connection 'Fora’s. ‘Theatre. The com- Include Grace Van Studdl- | The Sensation of the rouse sheludew Ataude Granger, Daisy Toad tho wrellcnowa pris, donna Joe, A iNew and Superb Show Throughout GEO. Mf cou Nat 45HF ats, 8150 vering, Frances Maginn, Welch, May Boley and her Brimful and overflowing with the lates CTE Buneans'W. il. Pascoe, David YOunE: Gina,” Hoyiianl, tle ventriloquist; the, mat ingentows, sensations uet_attiona ‘ak. | | BNICKERBOCKEH era . Franais Barton, J. H. Lewis and George) Toot pukens ‘and Cherles Leonard! tractions from all parts of the world, Brault A aN eee 1s i Cleric. iNetcher. ‘The stock com; at tre! DUPLEX DEATH DEFYING DEEDS ERItzi SCH iv ALL ra SSI e One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street ONE MODIS’ ——_ Richard Mansfield will begin te sec- Theatre will present, “oille, sarni DR ree Tadee "oor oe im two sy Ae and oh He SCUEEE Eas ‘s Te ees and cf tain ofa eres | a te Ses a ae eae = Js RAUF oe thang enre The vole | fbn ba Perfemns Wai Seen | ony ating DEATH | Huber’s'sh" iis , Gt the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale offers Hen aoe a wana waa ! ~ MUSCUN Dale in “AL to B tn onion of hie ted tunttles. | Mrs, Edward Esmonde and others, prey. An poet aay Wooeine te Mr. Mansfield Interesting oppor Pastor will offer, among ving The arrangement of plays for the week) | Tony tne Casing Comedy Four, Btine | Samant FY Torefing im loa ts hal a Mr, Hyde’ q + Garry Owen and sf Bana Baal iabciy tien avery cal | THE TWO TWIRLS OP TERROR i) y Ly cue for ie Beau Bremurday matings, “wo Sout- | Ne the les Musicar Monarchs, the Bran ate ee ca tter;” Saturday night, “Don) Bradys and Siddons Brothers, Horace Goldin, magician, and Vesta THE ABRIAL TREMPLIN % ¥ Victoria, the Dnglsh music hall singer, Antounding and ininio le jis Murlell. Roberts, Z aorobatl: i RS SE r+ omnia Beas iu proaveden Meats pagal mm meienang female Fdleon Pictures at sn = To-morrow Night, 8.30 VICTO R HERBE RT rs x, the Academy of Muste on Menaey nls”) The Sterner Stuff, fume . 2. | TJAMMERSTEIN’S is: Fie tow eaka engagement. Mise’ Percy KR AY Seats 25c to $1.00 Soloist: Miss Julia Allen, Soprano Waiinee EVERY D. Haswell will ibe seen as Yo San and | ange of ul weekly, —_——$—$—$—$—$— aa OT vou Weeichogrtc,%:|3 “THE SHOW THAT MANES EVERY OTHER SHOW LOOK LIKE A SIDE SHOW.”—N. Y. WORLD. ‘Morrelle’ Trot 6 ols Zip: 6 ATINEES DAILY, 25c. to $1.00. 3 coe eat aU oMuern aed to AME MAsst, Zi 000 eee Seats....50c | 1,000 Opera Chair Seats,.25c t YY, 25C-, 50c. Bitect'T. Haines as Kara, the par y , i Rolsh he originated at the Belasco that active people need, Sarai a at Henri de Vries 8 Mat. Sat.nt 2, /The Girk © : zl 2| SAgtiSss eth PACE te dar, yheatre, yas The ‘Grand s ircus and Hippo- in “A CASH OEY ARSON.” Belasco {yavid Belasco presen i EW AN EUDAM, 42 at. w.of BY way & Next. Week—B * te member of the} the upbuilding elements drome Byer Projected Geo. Fuller, “Golden. Guitan, ‘The THUDETEES 2 BLANCHE BATES in| Guts ‘aw MANSFIELD hoe Miss Adele Ven Ob (f mernber af the required by convalescents | ings Z,staxen, Atrial Enclane and Race. | Marvelioim 4 Ba Ban ras spas er RCADEMY of MUSIO, 14th si. Irving Dl ith ASIAN KOMANCE, 8.15 YooNst i EHIND ite MASK chorus and an expe . Sorepsciatiets in Be 1 Bauestetantwen, Acrobatian, | Hanley, Rotow, Vitartaph and ot 4 SAY DAVED BOL ASCO ica = eFane MA NICHE Sem ine i new sensa- — refreshme: tea, Athletic ‘Feats. | =~ LA ‘DA THBA.B' 8. rts, ane fat., Night,25, fu ure ca the herolie ns re sant tood, force, nt, iuraptd Reta Hele Hpi ares) Bam w6.38; 1 THE GL ANSHAN | acct gregiek, ART or MARYLAND. {Broadway™BA2 5, aeen Seer tne inodrome. ‘ie gape | gpanenien all oh GLANS a FASE JANIS WT woe ti wesay wild chase by Gypsies In Twe Menageries of Wild and Grice Van Bt BS he huge tank. TM. NT LI phine Coh: = PRIS ws horses plunge into t Trained Beasts Ja oorbett LIBERTY ’ ‘ Frits! Scheff will give an extra matl | Educated dogs, piss, on Ni re i GARRICK nee performance of “Mile, Modiste” at monkeys, ath Ponite torment elephant | ii |{TheRedsHin wie hi Davi BE Armour’s 2.3 he eee he i R, HOPKINSO! ba 4 Sonar) Bise nits freee the Knickerbooker ASS hase ecind | Saturday Niet YING RICHARD Tit ie timed ae | WARF ; FIEL B 1 rT} ait sac} | _ BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS, — " Frank Daniel el int troupe, Witewd Mute mes 7 5 Ky pe) | aerncreaencnnnnaenonnerananes will be the attraction at the Grand meee in Beltar leas aan P TOR’S ‘3 reer “Start papges, Other THE DEWEY &5t, = f ial UNEIY FOOD SHOW | Paws Praoner of Zenda,” with A. HL. E Xtract [Raa Ng eekes orks AS PAAR Ra “rupert of entaau.” ff scat, To-day—Vanity Pair Butieniuers TUM ‘ z Morean, Tewe = = yan Baren‘and Amalia Bingham» Ge Bil GF He Glen ee ARON APA NCR ‘ein Not game THE GOTHAM Ea, wives baer NOW ; CLERMONT 2 eae Ht Prectora min Ate Tonerved seat é >HO! i Majestic Burlesquera. APPYLAND ? To-day. % Hod contany atpocers neha! Qf Rae teaver ae gate, erates ST. NICHOLAS RINK. Cyan a vane a co, Frame HS! ee wean OPEN ? AVE. RINK, : Bile Mente. it pe peen at the Wy cote: treme 0 A le Mi Gay, tom eee ee eete er end CaaS: etiryan and. ‘ata inericaa B MAJESTIC, Bve818 MIS MAJESTY |! ¢ Hurvurd, with Harry. Woodruft Soar ach aftemoons ae © Basle Opera House! in” uti 'artange: Betas se ai Cetatesdst mantener ae Senne ae Oesheur ines rae Blanche Ming aon onan HIS MAJESTY | TV RIC. 8 M MEXICANA CREM ALENGE oh tment ot playa: Monday, and Nriday e | Last Mat ‘onday, 25, 50, 75, $1. WEST EXD SORE STATE FOr a Waa iLMT MAT. AQREAEUDE BE: ae taste Stactetts: edn eeday,| Be. eure it’s labeled tnt er fgets, ae Aa a sSoeRy ‘Grand. Prince - Pilsen Meuotn, [Miniature ativer Loving Cubs (ladies, ton: | HIELDS dating (AST bat et, exhibtiad, elves ‘Hi Hurwday, i" Wamure “Armour’s.” Sold by all Sata ih for ts ii ae Nah Garden, 27th & Mad. Ay._Ey.8 a To day | 5 8 ‘vadlea * Sa ard : aay ing “shied ty LO el aernaiagat 2 cael 8 Pea Next Wook, FRANK DANIELS, Servt, Brue, uy HITCHCOCK fits. | ANNG IPIMAN 50, J ‘i the Wiulisn J. Kelly etook company at al druggists and grocers, (i TH feat ti nae My. ale Lies AUNT HORE in. a Gacia ani aan ena BONBON-——— } a3 Ae Vay YD “Bast? comes the 0, Mat Sat. | with Bllenne Girardot Wr ~ i ransfor from ston own Flakes tres . ra Ly poatte: area Bowery, ni Carat Wotan The Squaw Man| jaicanea Marah Binet aly i ARMOUR, COMPANY its St | ager eo, Mauer keh agate i RL Ice eo ee \ LN Lae NF ty 9 Sie) aes