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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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i; KAMI OPERA HOUSE. Frlday NIgliĆ­, October 2".. "4. ftowery GIrl." Before the productkm thero was considerable talk of litigation over the title, now much in demand fora play, "A Bowery Girl." The story of its evolution is interesting, for it shows how, from a small beginning, a fad may run into popularity aloag a greased grove if it starts right. Charles H. Hoyt, the dramatist, was coming from Brooklyn one night. and,' looking out of a window of a Third Avenue elevated car, conceived the notion of writing the song' "The Bowery," afterward sung by Henry Connor in "A Trip to Chinatown." "Some months af ter this Andrew Hack, the vocalist, wrote (VVilliam Jerome composing the music), "My Pearl's a Bowery Girl." These are the words of the chorus : My pearl's a Bowery girl, She's all the world to me ; She's in it with any of the girl round the town. And a corker good looking you,see? At Walhalla' Hall, why she kills them all, As waltzing together we twirl ; She aets them all crazy, a spieier, a daisy, For my pearl's a Bowery girl.

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Ann Arbor Register