Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — THEATER FOR GOTHAM YOUNG [ARTICLE]

THEATER FOR GOTHAM YOUNG

Only Playhouse In World Devoted Exclusively to Children Will Be Open Soon. ■— New York.—A children’s theater, the only playhouse in the world devoted exclusively to the entertainment of children, will be opened in New York soon. The funds for -the enterprise were provided by William K. Vanderbilt, but the theater is expected to be practically self-support-ing. The auditorium, which is placed on the roof of the building erected by Mr. Vanderbilt and others for their new theater enterprise, will seat 800 children and has twelve boxes. The wall decorations are in nursery style, and great arched windows looking out over Central Park give it an abundance of pure fresh air. Plays will be given in the afternoon beginning at 3:30 o’clock, an hour convenient for school children.

A partial description of the theater was made public. The stage is low and has the general appearance of the stage of a toy theater in some garret. The seats are lower than those of the ordinary playhouse. The frame of the proscenium is decorated with a frieze. The base of this frieze is supported with bits of animal life illus■tratlve of the fables of Aesop apd La Fontaine. This idea Is carried out through the interior of the building, through eight pictures in cameo relief in the arches of the boxes.

more than >3,000 for his comfort and health in the last 12 years. A hearse carried the casket to Prince Hill, “Monkey” was buried in a lot furnished through the Ohio Humane society. There were four carriages in the procession. Funeral services, consisting of short addresses by members of the society, were held at the residence.