Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC t The Hanloiis and tlieiiyPhan tasmagbricUl Drama MARY AXDERSOXSAXGLAGISlf JTantaiiua Mmrr In the ITest Barney McAuley Jim Uardle = Lansing General Jtoter Commencing Tuesday evening we are to have a season of the phantasmapor ical drama in the shape of Fantasma a wild wierd concert something ol the nature of the Devils Auction and performed per-formed by the Hanlons whose Voyage in Suisse Is still wellremembered The paintings about town gives some idea what we may expect of the perform ace a more definite one can be gained I by the followin description in the Gill Fautastnn produced by the Hanlons at the Baldwin last evening in the presence of a packed house is well named It is a phantasm from beginning begin-ning to end with such rapid changes and transitions that the beholder imagines im-agines he is subjected to a series of shad owv appearances and optical illusions until slight mental confusion ensues The pivot on which the whole business turns is as ii usual in all such compositions composi-tions a conflict between the good and evil principle That is all the intellectuality intellec-tuality there is about it and it is soon forgotten Itr the apt work of the machinist ma-chinist and the carpenter in the gorgeous gor-geous coloring of the scene painter All the tricks illusions metamorphoses and transformations that used to delight de-light a previous generation when the Ravels and Martinettis were in the heyday hey-day of their fame go to make up Fan tasma as well as the gilding color and false fires that were wont to heighten the effects but with advancing time the Ilanlons have also improved on the cruder surprises of the Frenchmen and the Italians They have seized on modern instabces to bring their work closer home to their audiences Their aeries of tableaux representing the Greely party in the Arctic regions rery beautiful and impressive their illustrations illustra-tions of the pictures that adorn the advertisements of today are in evidence of this fact As for the action of the piece it is In the highest style of gymnastic and acrobatic accomplishments accomplish-ments Surely they must have relays of agile and ablebodied performers to provide against the contingency of broken limbs or else those specially engaged must be Indiarubber men au mucJe and no bone whd never suffer fractures The bridge scene is a tremendous tre-mendous test of the ordinary anatomy There can be no special mention made of the individuals engaged in presenting present-ing this beautiful novelty They are all parts of a harmonious whole They are titled into their assigned work on the rule and square plan that the machinist has fitted his and the piece moves on its course with such ease and rapidity such beauty and precision that when the final curtain calls one pulls himself together as a sleeper mighrcollect his senses when waking from a fantastic dream There can be no doubt of its popularity There is not a child in the city that will not cry to see Fantasnia when its peculiarities are knownthere Is not a mother who can refuse her little ones a sight of it A SOYELTT Is offered in connection with Fantasma which the children will do well to take note of The management manage-ment offer a prize of 5 to be awarded to the child who arranges the greatest number of English words out of the otters Fantasma the prize will be l given at the Wednesday matinee |