Life — November 2, 1905 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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HAT remarkable institution, the Hippodrome, which, with a brief interval, has entertained in the neighborhood of fourteen thousand persons a day ever since last April, has only now found it necessary to change its programme. A place of en- terainment which in less than six months attracts the attention of more than two millions of persons is cer- tainly an important feature in the amusements of this amusement-loving town, ‘The reasons for the success of this great venture are worth noticing. ‘The basic reason is the one for which Lire has long been contending in the case of the theatres, The managers of the Hippodrome have given the public what Presi- CLAIRE HELIOT AND ONE OF NER AMIABLE LIONS AT TH dent Roosevelt also approves of—a square deal, The building was aa constructed to guarantee the safety of its audiences against fire and Profit from the Dilemma. panic, It was arranged with a view to the comfort of the spectator, instead of squeezing in every possible seat and making every possible HE biggest stealing in the world is done in New inch an income producer for its managers. Its prices of admission York City, and naturally the entire country is in- were put on a reasonable instead of a robber basis, and in the way of terested in the choice of the man whose business it entertainment its patrons get their money's worth in quality and will bé for the next fourvy to prosecute New antity, And not least of its attractions are the civility and courtesy : which replace the usual contemptuous and buorish treatment the os theatre-goer encounters in other places of amusement, All of which the amusing dilemma in which Judge Jerome's inde- | 7 : i koes to show that the square deal is appreciated by the public, and is pendent candidacy placed the party bosses. The profitable to those who adopt it in the matter of amusements, way they met the dilemma was equally amusing. The bis York's distinguished thieves. Lire has spoken of st of the new features at the Hippodrome is the new None of them wanted Jerome, of course. Boss Odell, spectacle, ** The Romance of a Hindoo Princess." The romance who has practically wrecked the Republican party in itself is not a great dramatic work, but it carries two acts of spectacu- New York C was obliged to give the Republican nomi- lar gorgeousness and thrilling features, The first shows a public nation to the first nonentity who would accept it. Hearst, *auare in an Indiantown with interesting bits of Oriental life, and who is really more of a demagogue than a boss, nominated —_‘t!minates in an attack on the palace, in which men, horses, elephants his own obscure attorney. Murphy, of Tammany, found the dilemma a serious one instead of an amusing one. If he endorsed Jerome, it meant an endorsement of independ- and battering rams play an effective and exciting part. The second shows an attack ona camp in a Himalayan mountain pass. In the defeat and flight the only means of escape left open to the elephants isa plunge down a steep declivity into the water below, and they take ence in politics, the very thing the machines dread most. jt like—like elephants, The immensity of an elephant makes him an If he put up a mere tool of the Tammany organization, it impressive sight, but that same immensity makes him as a shooter of meant imperilling the reelection of Mayor McClellan and chutes anything but impressive. In fact, the manner in which endangering Tammany control of the city patronage for the elephants manage their huge bulk when they take the shide the next four years. Therefore, he reluctantly put in nomi- 44 plunge is one of the funniest things ever seen ina New York place of amusement, ‘The wonder is that they can handle their nati nes W. Osborne, for : dle assist large selves at all in these unusual circumstances. Another new feature of the performance is Claire Heliot and her troupe of performing lions, These animals growl and show their teeth under different district attorneys, and concerning whose efficiency, honesty and independence of character there is no question, and snap at their mist asionally, but she is such an attractive bit There seems to be no doubt that the next District At- of female humanity that this pretence of ferocity is probably made to torney will be either Judge Jerome or Mr. Osborne, If disgaise their real feelings of affection, They probably hke her well Judge Jerome should not be clected, the people will profit enough to eat her up, as we say to children, but they are very gentle by his candidacy to the extent that it compelled the nomi- manly lions and have been educated to restrain their natural inclina- nation by Tammany of a candidate who is not a mere tool he Hippodrome has passed the experimental stage and has be- of the machine, The Hip me has passed the expe come a New York institu! As It Should Be. oo . VERY man for himself, and the devil take the fore- FR the elephants and the lions to Maurice Maeterlinck is quite a jump, The Belgian author's ** Monna Vanoa” received its most. comicbooks.com