. Als das alte New York jung war. ALTE THEATER und heißt jetzt Park Row. Dort fand ich eine Reihe von kleinen Essenshäusern und Geschäften, so düster und so abgenutzt, dass sie wohl schon vor Kirbys Tag dort waren. Aber es gab keine Anzeichen für das Chatham Theater. Und dann erinnere ich mich, dass es erst kurz nach seiner Eröffnung, 1839, seinen Namen hatte und dann in Purdys National umbenannt wurde. In diesem Haus wurde Uncle Toms Cabin erstmals 1852 in der Stadt produziert, als es mehr als hundert Nächte lang lief – ein in jener Zeit sehr gewöhnlicher Rekord. Meine Bemühungen, das theatralische hom zu lokalisieren

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. When old New York was young . OLD-TIME THEATRES and is now called Park Row. There Ifound a line of small eating-houses and shopsso dismal and so time-worn as to look asthough they had surely been there beforeKirbys day. But there was no sign of theChatham Theatre. And then I rememberedthat it had only held its name for a shorttime after it was opened, in 1839, and wasthen renamed Purdys National. It was atthis house that Uncle Toms Cabin wasfirst produced in the city, in 1852, when itran for more than a hundred nights—a mostunusual record in those days. My effort to locate the theatrical home ofKirby started me off on a trip, which keptme going the greater part of several days, looking up spots where the theatres of thepast had been. Passing along Chambers Street, I cameupon a building beside the new Hall of Rec-ords, and stopped, for it recalled to me the [>53J OLD-TIME THEATRES story of an unfullilled ambition. More thanhalf a century has passed and gone since Fer-dinand Palmo was the proprietor of the Cafe. Niblos Garden. des Milles Colonnes in Broadway at DuaneStreet. His was a prosperous business, andhe accumulated wealth year by year. But hehad a soul above his trade and an ambition toestablish the music of Italy in a permanent [>54] OLD-TIME THEATRES home. So he gave up his prosperous cafeand built a pretty Httle theatre at this pointin Chambers Street, where Stoppanis bathshad been. The theatre was opened in the early partof I 844, with Bellinis opera ** I Puritani, interpreted by Signora Borghese and othersingers who had been brought from Italy.Although the house was only moderately pat-ronized at hrst, and although Palmo mort-gaged all his holdings to satisfy his greatsingers, who were a capricious set, after afew months it looked as though the venturemight struggle to success. But Palmo, in hisefforts to deal with the premiers, had forgot-ten the chorus-singers and workmen, and theybegan to grumble. Then, on a gala night, when the housewas thronge

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