| Show i II AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS' I The Orpheum bill this week has as Its Us I headliner The Th a band composed composed composed com com- posed entirely of at women Special stake o apparatus makes the number unusually I attractive The remainder of ot the bill has hns also proved Itself popular NEW YORK Aug IS Miss Miss Henrietta Crosman b began san her season In the Academy Academy Acad Acad- em emy of oC Music last Thursday reviving her first big success Mistress Nell Since she originally produced the play pIny at the tho t. t 1 k i I re 72 Bijou theater several years ears ago aso and Its lon long lony run In Ne Now New York at that time she sho has hag revived the pt only on one occasion and last nights night's p performance took on addItional additional additional addi addI- Interest There was a large audience to welcome the popular actress considering the warm night and she received much applause and many recalls The familiar scenes of oC the play went with all their 01 old 1 time sweetness and charm and the audiences audience's verdict was that tho the suc successful play had hadI had a brilliant revival I NEW NE YORK TORK Aug 18 Tony Ton Tony Pastor famous famous fa- fa as an actor and theatrical manager Is ver very ill at his summer Bummer home at Elmhurst Elmhurst Elm- Elm hurst L. L I I. I He Is being attended b by two New York specialists and his wife Is constantly at athis athis athis his bedside bed Mr Pastor Is 76 years ears old Ho lIe married twice and had a son b by his first wife Tony Pastor was born In Greenwich street In 1835 and for Cor sixty years has been an amusement manager three forty of oC the years ears being spent continuously continuous In n New York He was as the first manager to clean and popularize vaudeville In this country countr and his name has been constantly constanty constant constant- ly h y associated with that branch of oC theatricals theatricals theatricals cals and with the bringing out of oC man many many actors and actresses who rose to stellar heights height At the ago age of ot 6 he was as singing ducts duels with a then future state senator at temperance tem tem- per perance nce meetings At 9 he ho made his professional proCessional debut as a boy prodigy donning don don- donning on- on ning burnt cork with the minstrels at Barnum's Darnum's museum From that period un unI until until un- un til 1861 he was with traveling circuses I actor or ringmaster Taking Sam Sharpley as his partner r. Mr lr Pastor opened a a. now new music hall at No j I 01 Ol Bowery Bowen now the old Peoples People's theater I There he abolished smoking and drinking I as side Ide Issues IssuE's of the playhouse and the I place enjoyed a great boom of respectable 1 attendance In October 1876 he moved to toI toNo I No Broadway for tor the theatrical center center center cen cen- ter was S moving uptown There he Introduced to the American th theatrical public such coming comins performers as Lillian Ru Russell sell Nat at Goodwin Denman Thompson Ia 1 May and Flo Irwin Florence Bindley HIndley Gus GUl Williams Richard Carroll CarrollI 1 I and Francis Wilson Nilson In songs and dances i and Old Hoss Hess Hoe Hoey and Charles Evans E DIll Billy Barry William J J. J Scanlon Jennie Yeamans Yeaman Harry and John Kernell and I Pat Pae Rooney At that house he hil also introduced condensed condensed con con- opera and opera burlesque of ot the I I IJ j i i J. J of it t f 11 1 y J I t t iti tC t- t ji C j t f 1 t J f. f t. t l r i if r 0 0 Y 0 i f tf t k 1 f l i d. d U f is isU f o t tI tr tt j N r I r I I F t X t t r t V. V r j J. J l f 5 s 1 r f Jt F r i 1 I II I f y w I 4 y s l t. t 14 1 4 HENRIETTA tw ru MISTRESS NELL HELL I sort which are arc now rendered as brand I new He burlesqued Pinafore the Pirates Pi rates of oC Penzance and Patience In 1881 Mr Mr- Pastor established himself at atthe atthe the thc Tony Pastor theater in Fourteenth str street ct In Tammany hall halt and there he re remaIned remained remained re- re presenting many American and I II I IAmon foreign artists who are now I Among Amon them were Vesta Tilley Vesta Vesla Victoria Bessie Bessle Jennie Hill Bessie Bes Des Bessie I sie sic Bellwood and Mile Mlle I |
