Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 19 | Will Restore Old Bowery

WILL RESTORE OLD BOWERY I I k Famous Famous Theatre To Be Bei I i I Given I Its Former Glory BY MALCOLM UJ ELLIS Special Ial to The Stand- Stand CopyrIght 1923 I NEW yon Nov Nov H 2 New 24 4 New York retains with sith grudging hands handsher handsher her landmarks of the pASt For that reason A lerno's for tor Thalia for formerly merly menly the oli old Bower theatre theatre- theatre wherein the dos das when great whito the street ways YS l had not supplanted corner gas lamp the night life of Gotham cent centered red Is h to be restored to Its ItJI pristine glory Fire damaged the tho theatre this week and smoke and water took their toll loll of the murals and other relics of past das s Across the stage the stage biggest even en et ct In New York with Ith the exception ot of ot the Hippodrome Hippodrome- trod the famous people of ot other times Here Ure Va Bald ld 1 Lottie Gibson Weber and Field Sold Lillian HUt Russell n and a boat hoit of ot others on Broadway was as glad glod to act I there theme made thet thel or appeared at atthe atthe atthe the height of ot theIr careers FAVOL'S ACTORS t Sd Johnson a n of 3 37 ears In the fire department and now noa chief of the dl- dl dl 1 lon sat rat In the darkened pit of I the tho theatre toda today sun 0 tho the ruins As ts he talked In the gloom he mentally projected tho the charac- charac characters tens on the stage and walked walled them across In thel It was here ho he said that I Buffalo Bill Dill made His IUs is first theatrical theatrical cal appearance That was US In iii the tho before his wild west st shows Lie He brought along a part of ot the Indian tribe triba and Jack Jilek Texas Jack was as quick on the trigger He Ito had been an IndIan scout cout at Fort ort Sill and was as the tho champion lasso thrower of o the I west est The Tse show was waa called The TheLast La Last t Shot I almost tell felt out of mY seat seat w with ith fright SIGHT An Indian would creep across the stage to toward the white camp but there thero was Texas lexas lack swinging his lasso Just In time to prevent the tho scalping some some- somebody some some- somebody somebody body I remember ono one day Jay us boys In the pit applauded ho so much ho he had to lasso the whole hole tribe of Pawnee Indians In those days what you orchestra now was as called the pit S Snells sat In the ot of seats nets that ringed the the- pit about IS 15 feet teet up The galleries were abo aboe abo e that Actors and actresses a expected an thing from the ero crowd d In the tho pit You could get ther there for tor a dime Katie Katlo Fisher was one of the actresses that a appeared here Katie pin pia ed In Mazeppa the show that was anti a horse There was Maggie Mitchell and Johnny Thomp Thompson en George L Fox played Humpty there Nat Woods Lorenzo Harrigan and Hart and Pat Rooney all all of ot them played the old cry Bow cry WRAPPED wn IN IX FLAG 11 It was W the old flowery Bowery theatre that the shouted encore Eddy accompanied by stamping of feet teet originated For ten years It was used as an encore In New York In preference to applauding An actor by the name namo of Eddy appeared nt at atthe atthe the Bowery flowery In a a play piny whoso whose last Tie depicted depleted him d In wrapped rapped In an nn American the flag flag tho death ot of ota ofa ofa a hero He got curtain call after arter curtaIn call The show ran so 90 long that the he audience quit applauding EddyThe and began calling Eldy Eddy The call WAS carried to other the the- theatres theatres the theatres atres The highest type shows appeared also siso at the old Do flowery Bowery cry It Is the oldest theatre In the city and the aristocracy now too ton tony to go 10 down in lU tto tho Do flow cry ery district was wan once proud to bo be seen seena In a the tho circle of ot the tho theatre Light operas comic operas tra- tra tra tragedies gedies ledies and comedies chased each other ther across Its stage Tho The toot foot foot foot- footlights footlights lights Yo were ero gps gas burners On the tho floor just behind the Circle a bar was maintained When fickle tickle New ew York Its lt favor tavor and Its elite night life lito to Fourteenth street tho the the the- aire atre tre declined In patronage and Ger Ger- German Ger- Ger Gernan German man nan Interests took It 0 o cr or Later Jewish Interests took It and named It tho Thalia theatre In recent ears cars It has hns been operated as nn an Italian Melodrama house But Dut the architecture of ot the tho the the- theatre theatre the theatre atre has not been changed and It Ill aili be retained In the restoration