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...BOWERY," the phenomenally successful comedy drama in which Steve Brodie, the famous Bowery boy, has toured the country during the past three years, is the attraction at the Columbia Theatre this week. This play has made more money than any other popular attraction ever staged in this country and hence it is fair to assume that it has proved more popular with the people than any other attraction of its class. Since last seen here an entire new scenic equipment has been provided for it. The company has been strengthened by several new people and many new specialties have been...
...pictorial production of the realistic sensational and comic drama, "On the Bowery," by R. N. Stephens, presenting with kaleidoscopic diversity and photographic accuracy the most typical and amusing scenes and characters of the unique thoroughfare on the east side of New York, and showing the wonderfully thrilling leap of Steve Brodie, the king of the Bowery, the helper of the distressed, the benefactor of the poor, from Brooklyn bridge. Other scenic views are the Bowery at night, pier 13 East River, with burning ware house, Chatham Square by moonlight, the rich man's residence uptown, the river under the bridge...
...returned to my pipe for consolation. I was miserably restless. The clock struck twelve, - hollow, resounding strokes, every one of which increased my nervous expectation. I felt that I must do something; I took up my hat and coat, and was about to start off myself in search of Steve, when I heard a brisk, firm step on the stair, and the missing man himself entered. He came in radiant and glowing with exercise...
...think so, do you?" He began to execute an intricate double shuffle on the carpet, quite unmindful of our neighbors beneath. This was a most extraordinary performance for Steve, usually a very quiet and modest fellow. I began to suspect that he had imbibed too freely on his way to Arlington...
...occupants of the other rooms did not hear it. Suddenly it ceased, and there was a knock at the door. That knock broke sharply across my nerves; I felt a horrible sensation of ghostly terror which I tried in vain to repress. I did not rise; I motioned to Steve to answer the summons. He smiles quietly, - even contemptuously, I thought, - and opened the door. There was no living person in sight. But that mocking laugh broke out again...