Show TWO HEN INJURED JRojic Parts During a Trapeze Performance Per-formance NEW YORK Oct SO Prominent in the specialties incidental to the White Crook at the Olympic theater is the trapeze and horizontal bar act of Edward Ed-ward Colby and Frank Dewitt Colby was balancing himself across the cross bar 25 feet above the stage last night Dewitt was just beneath him The audience still as could be was waiting when there sounded through the building a sudden sharp snap like the crack of a revolver The rope of the trapeze parted The two performers crashed to the stage and lay motionless The screams of the women the shouts of men the rush of some of the audience to the doors and of others to the stage followed the fall The stage manager George Curtice and others ran in and carried the two performers to the wings Then the momentary panic began to subside Within ten minutes Wihin they applauded a girl singer and had apparently forgot ten the accident In the meantime the performers were taken to Harlem hospital hos-pital Five toes of Colbys foot were broken and he was badly shocked De witt received severe internal injuries |