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A near-riot occured after a New Haven, CT performance by which artist at the Hyperion Theater was halted by the police halfway through? This atist is now buried in France.
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#110777. Asked by Datsmeharse. (Nov 15 09 1:24 PM)
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Datsmeharse
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Everything about Jim Morrison is true, except his performance was at the New Haven Arena, not the Hyperion Theater.
Contemporary accounts of the incident in question stated that the artist was asked to censor part of their performance and did not comply, (also foreshadowing Morrison) causing the police to intervene.
There's no information as to whether a swan bed was involved or not.
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star_gazer
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The crowd was very enthusiastic in New Haven.
Jim responded by moving and jumping about the stage. The crowd was going
wild and shouting along with Jim as he screamed the lyrics to "When The
Music's Over." They exictedly applauded Jim's every move onstage. The last
song of the night was "Backdoor Man." During the instrumental break, Jim
started talking to the crowd. Policemen lined the stage and the areas just
offstage. Jim began telling the people how he met a girl prior to the
concert. He continued on...
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star_gazer
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"We started talking and we wanted some privacy and so we went into this
shower room. We weren't doing anything you know. Just standing there and
talking. And then this little man came in there, this little man in a
litle blue suit and a little blue cap. And he said, "What ya' doin' there?"
"Nothing." But he didn't go away. He stood there. And then he reached
'round behind him and he brought out this little black can of somethin'.
Looked like shaving cream, and then he sprayed it in my eyes. I was
blinded for about thirty minutes."
After this speach, Jim returned to singing the song when the
lights suddenly came on. Jim asked that the lights be turned off. In a
matter of seconds, Jim was flanked by two policemen. Jim offered the
microphone to Lt. Kelly so he could say his thing. At this point, Ray
Manzarek approached Jim. Just then, the officer grabbed the mike and the
two officers started dragging Jim off the stage. The police said the
concert was over and everyone was to go home. On this night, Jim Morrison
had taunted and embarrassed the police. The police weren't going to stand
for it. They chose to flaunt their authority by arresting Jim and making a
scene. Once they had Jim out of the view of the audience, they proceeded
to punch and kick him repeatedly before throwing him into a cruiser and
bringing him to the station.
 http://www.superseventies.com/faq_doors.html
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Datsmeharse
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The person I'm looking for died 50 years before Morrison.
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Datsmeharse
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I don't see a link that shows the play was performed in New Haven? I only see New York? Granville-Barker only died 25 or so years before Morrison. He did sucessfully manage to die in France though.
There's no information as to whether a swan bed was involved or not.
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queproblema
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Oh, sorry--I was in a hurry and forgot to paste that part in. Was also in too big a hurry to check the math. Swan bed?? Isn't that a different question?
Copy-and-paste:
New Haven, 1905. American actor Arnold Daly produces Mrs. Warren’s Profession at the Hyperion Theatre in New Haven. The opening night crowd is rowdy--Yale had beat Princeton in football that day--and a thousand students pack the galleries alongside professors and local dignitaries. Mary Shaw (no relation to the playwright), the actress playing Mrs. Warren, notes that in Act Two a “pandemonium broke loose in the upper galleries” when Vivie demands to know the identity of her father. Mary realizes that “it was going to be impossible to play Kitty Warren as Kitty Warren should be played, in the vulgar cockney dialect” and “knowing something of the methods of controlling mob audiences” instead adopts the upper class accent and manner of Lady Macbeth. A silence falls over the theater and when the curtain closes rapturous applause sounds. The next day, however, the mayor of New Haven, John P. Studley, receives calls that something improper had played at the Hyperion. Studley meets with Daly, to discuss the play and although he does not personally object to it, decides it would be best if the play not be performed within his jurisdiction. The police chief revokes Daly’s license and the company packs their bags for New York City.
http://www.mccarter.org/education/mrs-warrens/html/8.html
But that must not be what you're looking for, so I won't try to find out where any of the rest of the cast was buried.
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Datsmeharse
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Yeah, that's close, but it wasn't halted halfway through.
There's no information as to whether a swan bed was involved or not.
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queproblema
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Oh! No, probably no swan bed was in Gaby De Lys' dance performance.
"While she was dancing at the Hyperion Theater at Yale University, in November 1911, students rushed the stage. The Yale News had complained about ticket prices for the production being raised to $2. The performance followed the Yale - Princeton University football game played earlier the same day. The inflated price of admission is thought to have triggered the students to pull the seats to pieces and proceed with the outbreak. Deslys retreated to her room while stage hands used fire extinguishers to subdue the students."
(Wow--those kids really must have taken those football games seriously! Guess they still do. Bulldogs v. Tigers--don't get caught in the middle!)
As for the bed, here's what you wanted on that other question:
"Her carved and gilded bed, in the form of an enormous swan, was bought at auction by the Universal Studios prop department, and was used in the 1925 film of 'The Phantom of the Opera'. In 1950 it was in 'Sunset Boulevard' as the bed of Norma Desmond."
RIP:
"She died in Paris in February 1920."
I suppose she was buried there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Deslys
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Datsmeharse
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Lol, Gaby Deslys -- the original swan bed owner -- is correct. She is buried in Marseilles, her Wikipedia link shows a photo of her grave.
Yale lost that day in 1911, to the eventual undefeated national champions Princeton, which probably didn't put the Yalies in the best of mood. (The tickets to the game cost 2.00 as well) The next day's New York Times report of the theater incident refers to the censorship and the police closing the performance down when she didn't comply.
The students rioted when they realized there'd be no more Gaby, probably because they'd spent 4.00 that day for nothing.
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