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Show A SIUDDERIA'G AtDlEXCE. IX A . C1XCIXXATI THEATRE. TLe dress circle and rarqaette of the ! National were ceaiei" crowded Tester- j day on the occasion of the opri midi peri'ormance ty the Taudeville compa-' ny. Jdverythmg had pasied oif ii-.i ' f'actoriiy through the various pleasing j act-? of the different ani-ts in their spe-1 cialtie?, up to the last of the oho entertainment, en-tertainment, and the ng'y trapeze bui-' ines3 was on. A man and woman known as Monsieur and Madame San- J 3"t-ah (originally Senyah llaynes spoiled spoil-ed backward, we believe ) were doinz their dangerous acts very calmly, on the pendant bars thirty or forty feet above the footlights. Not all the eyes of the audience were strained to catch their every motion, for little children hid their heads behind their mothers, occasionally, and some of the ladies t'Xjk occasion to use their handkerchiefs handker-chiefs very freely. When the bundle of nerve and muscle, mus-cle, dme up in the shape of a symmetrical sym-metrical mart, with his head down and only holding himself by his strength to keep his legs well bent, and thui grip the bar back of his knees, caught the woman by the ankles and threw her out and down, head first, the breathing breath-ing of the audience was very faint. At that moment the bloods of the front seats forgot the sh;rpeiy ! welling of the limbs as thrown out in tights and spangles, and rubbed the perspiration that insisted on oozing from the palms of their hands. An old gentleman remarked, re-marked, "That's brutal," and a middle-aged lady said to her husband, "Oh, I want to go home.'' The tiddlers tid-dlers fiddled on, however ; the woman descended, pa.-sed through the par-quette, par-quette, took her place on the perch at the front of the second tier, and grasped grasp-ed the bar of the trapeze. The man caught himself by a twi;t of his legs to the smaller bar, far above the orchestra, orches-tra, and held the trapeze to which the woman was to catch by her feet, in the two angles made by the ropes and the bar; the orchesira struck up a fu.-ter tune ; the woman launched out and sailed over the heads o! the people, threw her legs out within the ropes held by 1 1 to man, let go the flying bar, and came down head first but safe. We have described this peformance thus minutely that the reader may have some idea of what followed. The last aDd closing feat led the man to do iu?t what the woman had done, the i bar to which he was to catch hanging irom the ceiling, however, but in the -line bositioii as that he had held for tiie vvuinaii but the woman was to take the awful voyage with him fastened to him by wristlets. The woman was on the perch ahead of ihe man, leaving him tip in his old position to carefully adjust (he ropes and bars a very neces-ary operation, as the reader will readily under.-tand. ' lie did his work carefully, descended descend-ed and soon joined the woman on the little platform. The man grasped the "filing trapeze" firmly, as the woman passeu he-.- hands through the wristlets wrist-lets and clasped them around his neck, and then, with his own he and hers depending on his grip of hands and feet, launched out in the long swiug. It was very pretty and very graceful as handsome a pictute as one can well imagine these fine specimens of masculine mas-culine and feminine physical beauty sailing through the air in a grand curve, the woman hanging loosely at the back of the man, whose legs were being thrown forward to the landing place. The distance was accomplished in, say two seconds ; the man's body had passed between the two ropes, he h id thrown his legs-out to catch as he came back, and trust all to his feet aud those two angles: and in another second he would have been dashed to the pit head tiis with his own weight and the woman's. In the instant allowed al-lowed them to see and know, the audience audi-ence saw that the man's right loot, as he came back, head downward, was not caught. One could see and leel the great throb of horror that went through the audience, and hear the painlul gulping of its breath as the thought Hashed throusth every mind, "Idas he lost his grip T ' The athlete must, have instinctively felt, as he threw his legs apart, that he would miss it fur even as he almost loosened the grasp of his right hand, he was seen to lis it again with a convulsive movement move-ment that did not escape an eye that 1. h.ked upon him. The strain upon him was terrible as he came back, still clinging with his hands to the trapeze, and the woman at his back. His lett foot caught and twisted him, and the iar and icik with which their added weight brought the swinging trapes back in its opposite movement war irichtlullv su-gestive of what mighi lmo Kc'ii. In the next minute, a: the irapiie and its d"uMo burder swop: loiwiid again, with its n- hclpA s.- I ut Jon, a'dezcu hands in tin Ljiii'iciU! were raised ti catch tin ... '- h.: Is an.l release her. TUii was accomplished rather awkwaro.y, owing to tin; delicacy oi the men: a.l ol whom seemed to to think that it would lc uy improper to gra.-p the woman by the Irp er thigh- and n --a li". ta-iiv and speedtiy. . n anr.isin,- feature ui' tl, .." nr was ll-.ooni.luei of the loader i t the T-eheMia. T-eheMia. Had there Icon a ta.l he iwo.i.d prebably have bo. n .-ru-hed. ! s .e leoked up and saw tl.: s.ip and i'luard the lerk he spraro; tiom Ins j jeii tl and .lnricd around . a . i -.n ,.e nexcr n.w-i a re H' I (, t.-l-.lei.ed and felt It I.eo -a! H-at he -ii..,i.d knew wh it wa.- '.u : ut ' hAopt OU tl id, Hie-' This ir o'.le.e :. 1 ' 1 ee;;c '..cut over, the Nit.!i o !..llK lo their stand, start. ;' out a.-aia ! and accomplish.' d their sueees;-f.i. sueees;-f.i. v-a- they l.ae a In. 'irol ly. an., more. (V ), i t, n I ' .'''- |