. New York of to-day . here the grapes of wrath are stored,He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword,Tlis truth is marching on I CHAPTEE XI DIRECT FROM BROADWAY, ORIG-INAL NEW YORK CAST So runs the legend on, the bills that announce thecoming of another New York success to the prov-inces. And yet many a good play—-for instance,The Yellow Jacket—has failed in tho Metropolisonly to find unbounded success on the road. Oh,the joy of being the rejected Stone that becomesthe chief stone of the corner! Well, here you are right in Hew York, and onTlromlway, ton. Some two thousand
. New York of to-day . here the grapes of wrath are stored,He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword,Tlis truth is marching on I CHAPTEE XI DIRECT FROM BROADWAY, ORIG-INAL NEW YORK CAST So runs the legend on, the bills that announce thecoming of another New York success to the prov-inces. And yet many a good play—-for instance,The Yellow Jacket—has failed in tho Metropolisonly to find unbounded success on the road. Oh,the joy of being the rejected Stone that becomesthe chief stone of the corner! Well, here you are right in Hew York, and onTlromlway, ton. Some two thousand places of enter-tainment are open for you. Which shall you choose—comedy, tragedy, light opera, grand opera, vaude-ville, circus, concert, pantomime, roeitals of allhindf?, or movies? About seventy-five or eighty ofthese houses are legitimate, serious theatres,featuring the best productions and employing thehighest class talent. The balance are mostly photo-plays, ranging from $2 admission down to five NEW YORK OF TO-DAY 1F>3 Aside from the regular theatre, with whieh everyone is familiar, New York rejoices in one or twoenterprises materially different from the usual Hippodrome, for instance, is unlike any otherplayhouse in America, and everything in it isplanned on a scale so enormous as to belittle allothers by comparison. It is mainly given up to aperformance which pleases the eye more than any-thing else. Its scientifically patented water tank,enabling the players to submerge and disappear com-pletely, always produces its thrill when seen for thefirst time. Battling hosts nre forced into the seaand drowned before your very eyes. The stage islarger itself than the whole of an ordinary theatre,and the auditorium in proportion, consequentlyspeaking parts are practically out of the questionexcept for the actor with a voice like a plays are mostly spectacular with plenty ofchorus singing and several old-time circus acts inwhich an eleph
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