Variety (December 1907)

VARIETY 21 NOTHING N EW UN DER THE SUN ? Program of Variety Performance, Sixty Years Ago, Says So Reproduced on this page is a program for the re-opening of the Franklin Theatre at 176 Chatham Square in 1848, sixty years ago. Its actual size is 23 inches in length. Harry Sanderson, of Pastor's Theatre, kindly furnished the original to Variety, but Mr. Sanderson, with all his knowledge of the history of variety, could bring no direct reference from his store of knowledge to this house or performance. The program is interesting from beginning to end. It promises "Chaste and Beauti- ful Exhibitions," and a chunge of program "every evening." Henrietta Vallnire is an- DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION Entranea in Crosby Street between Houston and Prinoo Sts ■^» ^^ ■■■■■■» m^rn .j. -- MMMJiMMMMMMI ■ — ifip j-.q-q M il . _| j 11 ii» j ii» j B - |ii j > _n. - n -Miiani n KTAOK M KN ACER £",%,7*2*8$ ggggg. ** TW T *. M. C ? CImTlE*. C^TUMhll I T«. R W. WJLUAMS. «■ . .,. ,. j r--_ -r-T^iry.- i ir i nn i ii' I wk i ittr. tDatroft Xt$l)X -a r — ■ i « Tuesday Fvairng. January 14th. 1851, Tke Parftirmanc* will Cumatrncc with EVADNE. OR THli BALL OP STATUES. Kin* of Naplea .Mr»J. W. ftfeGuckia Ludoviqp •••••• BurgeM Cokwwi Wale* Viee-ntio ,. «D. • w n*a Spal-ttro..'...-. *. Dwy«r Int. Courtirr.. w., ,.,.. Caway In.1. Courncr , ^Maokny p »'^ 1 ......... Cfcarlar TiW mint? -.•...«.«.«..•« o•a a a «*...o...a ... < ••••••♦•.•••.••»»....... MiM i Iiffi>r4 l/ii vm...... ....»•••......... s •»••••••«■•••• j ••• • • •... .«.«•••• ... a M if ■ RnhoftS 8*>ng» V Hfcrtwra Murphy anil JRmI To Conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO. King ArtexumiuiM . Mr. Garriafc f>omWa»te* ........ ^ Tiruf r'ushu* • •••••.,.. Conwttj D< atiti inn . Mm* Boniface Tuaad.y Bveaiug. Ftbraarf 4th, 1851 WiH to rVfcrabW Q» Pb* •£ Ricbrhrti OoBlophrat Julia Da Mortimor T» Conclude with *\**a*^\ **. Mr. Barge«j Frrdoa Mi*. F«xker THE FOLLIES OF A HIGHT. in noutieed as tin 1 "lovely" barmaid for "The Front Room," while "Living Pictures" (fro "prepared" and classical studies) are promised. A female hand or orchestra, a colored troupe, a French "danseuse" and an imper- sonator are also on the program. Another program from 18"»1 is of a legitimate performance. Names are among the cast which afterwards were famous on the American dramatic stage, but the connection, if any, between these days of T»l and later can not he traced. REALISM. For weird ingenuity commend me to the amateur stage manager of a club entertain-" ment. This is an elective office and the committee usually appoints a talented in- dividual who has never stage managed any- thing more ambitious than a family row at home. We went on to do our singing and talk- ing act at a club one night only to find that the stage had been spread with a ragged green cloth, making walking a des- perate chance. After doing eccentric steps to avoid the pit falls for ten minutes, I was caught unawares and did an unintentional comedy fall that would have satisfied Jiuimie Hice. I went at that stage manager a few min- utes later, meaning honestly to put him away for the general good of my profes- sion. "Well, you see, there's a bicycle act on last (we were Xo. 4 on a ten number bill) and I thought the green carpet made it look more like a woodland scene," he ex- plained, smiling the expectant smile of the terrier pup that has just done its prettiest trick at the first try. Of course the man shouldn't have been permitted to live, but I was too stunned at this exhibition of his artistic tempera- ment to do my duty. Tom Wilson; Of Wilson and Mae. DIFFERENT IDEAS OF HUMOR. liy Geo. Abel. FRANKLIN THEATRE! /W Mark Twain at the tomb of Adam found material for a humorous disquisi- tion; Rudyard Kipling at the tomb of his ancestors sees nothing but the seriousness of the situation. The Englishman takes himself seriously in all his moods and in every situation; countless generations of ancestry look down upon him and he looks up to them. Your American is a good deal of an iconoclast, with his bump of reverence un- developed and his respect for antiquity a minus quantity* The Englishman takes his humor in allopathic doses; the American in tabloid form. The Englishman needs and takes time to read, rellect upon and inwardly digest his jokes; the American wants "Vm hot ofT the bat." The Englishman finds time in business hours to indulge in a five (•'clock tea and giv.e..himself a rest;..,the.. American rushes to the quick lunch, bolts something indigestible, and is back at his business before you can say "Jack Robin- son." .Across the water, we live; here you rush. So it is that English humor rarely appeals to the American. He hasn't time to grasp its numerous and salient points, and let them become absorbed by his inner consciousness; he wants something that he can read and understand on the run. He places ice in his coffee because he hasn't time to let it cool in the cup; but the Englishman, slow of comprehension as he may be thought on this side, has a lively appr« lation of American humor— after he has been over here long enough to get onto your curves. I'm a great lover of Dickens and Thack- eray, an ardent admirer of Kipling, "Mr. Dooley" I dote upon, whilst Mark Twain is an endless source of delight. The United States never produced a "con" artist to compare with Dickens's "Sairey (lamp." Mrs. Gamp could bars made a fortune selling gold bricks in New York. And dear old Thackeray! Can you ever forget his meeting up with Adolphus Sim- (oe, poet and litterateur? Now try to take a fall out of "Mr. Dooley." He's not an acquired taste for me by any means. I take to him as naturally as a duck takes to water. "A hundred years fr'm now Hogan may be as famous as th' [mpror Willum. an' annyhow they'll both be dead, an' that's the principal ingrejunt iv fame." \'0U don't need a mallet to drive the point of that observation Into your head. We ^ r et something different in Mark Twain. I'.eiiah Sellers, for instance, dramatized in "The Gilded Age" as Colonel Mulberry Sellers! We meet his kind every da v. 171 CHATHAM SQUAJftB. '.KI.iT »l '.'( Kka '» Hit IF HE HAD KNOWN, I was with a melodrama some years ago called "The Engineer," in which I was the comedian, and Eva Tanguay was the sou- brette. We Were playing one night stands and struck a small town about 15 miles east of Scran ton. One hotel in town, so we took our choice. The innkeeper gave us a rate of one dollar a day. After dinn li- the majority of the other seven membci.s of the troupe went to rest themselves, but I remained downstairs and got into con- W^Re-Openingr I or THIi MAUNUi' KNT MTABU.HMl.ST. Tm that* aUca af null II baria( baaa ••■iftlj rabu.li *a4 iu ialartat n MMMMj 9* IS IfOW OPEN MM . with a aunt* ov CHASTE m BEAUTIFFI. SXMBITW. N»»« bafo.* aitfcihi.il f,, nn tooMif. fSTwioMAii^ —W-.-_l . IM. Tfce h**m i* well reatJUted, aaJ mi) i"fl1if will be ftf i# isrs—saeU njtwm IV* 1'RIV.tTK RB\ES!j| iUn lw»n meted for ib« imm wUi.w ol U4m* t»4 OvaileaMa, vh* v«a ■ •»• *• pM fonsanr** •« I noi b* Men bf ik* luAaar*. M. E -TV Hu<(M wrfl *ag*2« ti «njr aipviw*. nicb Mlwlt u may tnin *Mt*f lb* mi •m, tad bw lunm awjr n* am>-1 (Imi whuj will W b)fl und«M to tm4n ib« ••••rMxi- ■Mali woribf al aabtK f»u«n»f- FRicEst or'AnWiMHioN, Bom 2."> LVnii | Pit ,..!2;<>nu Pritate Boxet. accommodali»« 1 or more perwrna. ••••!. 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Tba Manafcr bat en|if*4 fat a liaiiad aumhtr of aighto, Ia*'* cal«braia4 FEMALB BAND OF SEBENADBBS Wlko bafa (•* r*4nra*4 froai an MJMMH'I ■> •«•■! ->< MM ilirwiih tli< 8im«< Mav»rr plaaa thry ho»f bf»n !.•!■■< i I aril ■ '«wl-<l hmim ILLUSTRATED PICTURES!! Takaa fra« l*ufn»« «•">■). »>/ • I'aufa •* IA ving Male ami Female Artl»i» t Froia iha Raral An»^»n>r of IWin, of Iy>«Jon »»4 T»m Tbo <*i|if>al *m* Ulaaiai Ara *n*M**. ior*l»^ -'«>' ** Ch,tf '' * W * 1Uh "•* Ahwk*". ■*• »'» V" » b «" **♦ , iJ,^,rfcfmaBcaa of ' -lunbinf, Turniaj Sooi.nnu aaJ o«bat waaaarlul foal.. AtaTaa' .««w»""" 1 h " °'» B <""»i>Z 0 •'ii. l ^i: imV^-m?? » *«.«<«.»«• ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS! THE X VIVANTS Will b« a GREAT FEATURE « ih» RvrMMj't P.ateruiuMMU, whi<-b will be l.!iiiniiiat>'J I'? ihe 'kick will U« f.iuti'l llM 'o'.!<iwnit beautiful rrpiraenUtiani of (1m - <ii*i;vf mmAuw. —— * .. , f _ imm um 9** '•'•' *■! I '"•••'••aataaf fciaio €1 .-_- mm m ov of lU aia^ <r...'iii.l Th» Qnrnk Sa». .. .............. .. Vmmm V<titm*i*f ' ibiKuU. l'.,rb.|a«t.allaib«. - -.. Ofnaaj f mm R-*i •*••■ **■•• - At MWMM .a tat -iy Wm« Spn.< TWTM~«'aoa»-TwoP.r..<« «.»..» | l-nar M.p- of k. s rkaoua Danriu, C«mu- •«!* »•»' mn.ial Smginj, witka vanrty ofwlact ••lor- uiaaiaata. to k« foana* at «'" mImi pl«■•«• al amuorMrnt ia Naw Yaaav _^ c: * 1 —" a ' v M 11, ( a'tbu, iu- n-oa*ai -"'4 Kim ii l»' »«"» », Nad'le. FRANCOIS KTIElf NB •mvrcv: aKVirniL uawkk. Mr. T. J. RiEBWA¥! Will - r* IniilMiaaa «f ».«•»'•• 'i a.' • »l i- .«* Li?ia« Arior^ •aaluaW. j. R. colt. Porrcit. Booth, fcc. lap. Pro(;ramrm• of I'erformiuni'H to Ji»e a*aMl_a»t_t I^c^TInwM^*- B>TVra .« M Kr«« I-..1 at lk«« p"»-'- '»-'P« lh « •^•M^a* , .• 1 »r.nl*'' *-*«tic 4i vcr.sjUion with the proprietor. He asked me a lot of fool tliinga, and finally got very inquisitive as t<> (he ■alariea of actors. Of course I swelled the figure. He finally said, "How much does that little tow-headed gal git?" (meaning Miss Tanguay). "Oh," I replied, "she receivea $7;"» a week." "Gee whiz," says he, 'how much do you get?" "*7."> a week, too," I answered. "If I'd a ever know'd that, you'd a never got in here for mi dollar a day," hellowed the boniface. Frank Taylor.