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| | Tony Pastor Collection |
 | | In 1881 Pastor leased the Germania Theatre and renamed it Tony Pastor's New Fourteenth Street Theatre, announcing that it would be "catering to the ladies, and presenting for the amusement of the cultivated and aesthetic Pure Music and Comedy, Burlesque, and Farce." Tony Pastor's, as it came to be known, played variety shows until 1908. |
 | | It was the most popular New York theatre of the 1880s, paving the way for the theatrical ventures of the impresarios B. Keith and Oscar Hammerstein, but by the first years of the twentieth century theatergoers had gone northward to venues in Times Square. |
 | | In two of the New York scrapbooks, the clippings are organized by newspaper. |
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