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"Why did someone like Eddie Can- tor want to get out of the neighborhood?" Mr. Snyder asks. "Look at these tenements, and you'll see why." One member of a tour group was the grandson of a famous female vaudeville star. We see many more of them as we walk over to .Canal Street and then onto East Broadway. At the corner of Jefferson, Mr. Snyder shows us the site of the Educational Alliance, a settlement house. "It was a building where im- migrants could find educa- tional services and often theater, too," explains Mr. Snyder. So this was a place where budding Jewish vaude- villians often -got practice. But they also used the streets. Pointing to Jefferson, Mr. Snyder tells us how the kids on Jefferson Street once organized a dance competi- tion between Eddie Cantor and another Lower East Sider, Roy Arthur. Mr. Arthur, already a vaudevillian, had been parading around the street, showing off his skills." Eddie Cantor's friends were jealous of the attention he was getting, so they proposed a dance competition between the two," relates Mr. Snyder. When Eddie Cantor danced, Mr. Arthur was so impressed that he hired him to join his tour as a valet, and the enter- prising Mr. Cantor soon work- ed his way up to become a juggler. Continuing our walk, we pass the building that was TENEMENTS page 58 * * "Gypsy" & "Mikado" Fr. $225 * * July 23-24 * * Aug. 6-7; 21-22 * "Mikado" — Aug. 25 . . . . $72 * $85 * * "Gypsy" — Aug. 29 * (Also Thru October) * * "TIGERS" VS. 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