Show ABOUT remoh vator veteran wallis contrasts Contra ala show past a 9 t all and d r r 08 ont HOW HOLY WAN SARAH BERNHAROT BERNHARDT BEON I 1 haina the flona at th illk C crook k hilll L 1 it 1 lart start ilia allot gilt iho 1 be V lix vula sola tho the treaty character aill t the a veteran vel irn LOW lalor W 11 who tor fur nearly hill hilf a coltury ail alai been beefs a familiar figure oil iii the american stage ili it tho the most import important act per aull 11 a in ill thit portion of a ill rap ot of the la 10 stamp lie la be it full all fledged blead or avrey a human willa still agencies at ilij co com mund almand be ila might eight at 0 tile gulf duil provided tho he iniquity to lo inspire in west lu JU cho troubles of tho the iti ry y conventional y oil rig lorem who tho the piece brid aro are final 1 ly rescued r by iho cho scantily clad fairy ancen I 1 bail bad a years lit in that line of oc with tho the sail anil to tao year with bolisay litter the brothers brother dissolved playing lu in tito tho block black crook crock arbet Ar brt in enchantment the burgomaster la IS rho list catcher anil and draco drachin Dra cuIn la tho the water queen till and brilliant appear saco 0 tho the fiend la in the glare ol 01 u tho ilia calcium amid a gra grand 1 I burat ua t of mysterious music always catches ln ilia iho audience anil and loading its conspicuous chip trap nail ad link blek ot at novelty invariably solids a thrill of solo ati through them equally successful Is 18 his cinat exit tho the trap by red fire I 1 am now dow dobur deju the cable father aud and liberoto blimp captala captain la in hands abrom the sea bud seeks to have caught on but 1 can cant repress a till lor flem lao IT laues set iowa owa for or the demon to keptot adolor th tho moat pact hilgh rubbish ut abbell far or tho be g generally I 1 ahlm bol lu that bonlon 0 the cho dialogue ue gad ADI tho ca noail a ewt hold bob hi hla eod 1 I up air ad AB it lie he were edwin booth or 10 barrett indeed ho he not falls alia into the awful do luIon that alit lio ito ill IB ON aa ulio as they are J B roberts hubert tho the aged tragedian edlan used to play with as aa munn much earnestness as aa lie be would have played olt Kl chard ichard ill III ile stew grew to Co nolder ilia lie imper soua tion the legitimate successor ot of his and indeed ho he 2 enre we it quite hi ask strongly ono ol of tire he oga was as an aa actor named T liana who died recently at line laud N i J where he wad lie enacted tho the rolo role twenty your acara ago the fiend Is 19 usually N ery popular with the ballet girl p probably to bably be callea tie be is la in mot most cases an e angly gentle demon oil off tho the 8 cage it la is the like custom for or the public to think lightly ol of tho the ladles of 0 the ballet but in hay or them that as fk a rulo rule they ste are good heisted women nuil bud that in all I 1 never saw mw the thing that could reflect on oa the their I 1 r moral character inn AND CUTTING the never or laid much wilde on alie it chiefly valuable as giving the ballul ballot time to rest reel and dress and at no period lied hea elated to cut cat a play all to pieces if by go doing they could make the torp corp features more prominent nellt the black crook to la a notable I 1 a example of 0 the extent of their cutting as aa very little or of the iho original drama lit la left hardly sufficient clent to stake make the plot I 1 intelligible I 1 always found cho very strict lu in their deal loEi with their people bat quite easy to got atouk with it 1 you yon prop properly efly attended to your Bolo bolous agy ily li N wild mild and kith those in his employ I 1 can truthfully pay eny that the ati three years I 1 passed gift tile w wore ore strong ai igodt anost agreeable a ol 01 in my carcer th tho mack black crook owed its 10 original pr 0 goodou to a chance it was written bacia by charito lia ill al dirrah a cranky craa carpea coni calli steered icib ilia llor lot of lila ilia life lie took to it IE to william vi il mier okho eta thon then new few york and II 11 healley 1110 illana ile pt in ills his drawer meantime jar still or batna patna lallur lal 0 r bought liou glit 1110 7 slid and cabin costumes ill ea 0 it LIT li chatto in paris and brought them thaw over to now kow york to gother ith au all ed b ballet is alett troupe r they applied to ill heatley for a DI play to nt t their mater lall anil and lie ila haule J out the hat half forgotten black croom crook offous rom its larking place placa with will the tha that lie be thought tho it might auber it was wag brought brough tout out at al lii hiblow blod la 1901 with such euch coba that it ni ula fortunes for jarrett S palmer and harras barred tito alie letters latt nii heirs draw a large lare royalty irom from it tor for years I 1 think aa a week seek though BO 60 long before the public it is still one oils 0 of the most popular of the spectacular pieces jt it was wag in the crook that louis lion got his ant start atari aw Groppo during the centennial tit at the national r Pirty lous to that time lie ho bad been entrusted only with very small porte Iwas I 1 was bruntz and john blaisdell rudol ph iho he production was marked by a fatal accident annio kemp bowler wife 0 I 1 bow ter the tenor to was Sta lacta daring ono one of oc tho the per tur tor mances she eho tell oil from the blood car bibich ascends at tho the close of 0 the piece and was so ill much geh injured that she died it A few days afterwards the premiere danse danseuse uso tn in that production was the pretty anil and toad fascinating OR ling marlo marie SARAH ARDT IN X A SPECTACLE I 1 taw saw sarah bernhardt play walking lady ian lu spectacular 91 production action of 0 the lie biche nil bola I 1 in a paris I 1 lu a 17 at lich time she was making her unit altenia alt fitt enla erupts on oil ilia stage at the theater porto porte aalst martin uy by tire the way in the alche au an bois boig which was done in this athla con country a try under the name lamoot botelho iho white fawn w M as an oue cue ol of tho ilia most ingenious effects Iii Cla I 1 ever saw it was wag the death of the rahn lawn and oce ocea in the farat act ibe he asu ann m which aich was as supposed oded to be an enchanted chanted on human being was a purely mechanical contrivance though very natural and surprising it was allot come came on the stage and expired rolling its eyes its iti it i limbs and going through all tho the agonies of death it takes the kirakos about tour four weeks to rehearse reh earBe arse a and prepare it for or production they rehearse hoi lisis the dramatic dru matlo cour T aud beeta he 1 far GS L s and then he the alion w of dreads the night afore the halloo lit la 1817 produced richard ill in style at the arch street theater philadelphia with splendid brulor armor scenery ec enery onery costumes and a d ellec ts the iha production wad waa fully ally equal loan I 1 bing of the its kind done nowadays indea jurci ill jl ji played richard It chard and a very flao he is go daxe a I 1 i as a of tho the stock company comy y at t the ilia walnut street theater fa 1 hied 01 hia from wl iaz 1 to ivis 1136 under uni li A Mar I 1 management and took part to la a grard spectacular production ol of A bib leumas er nights Pr eaul aich for tr senate larco effects I 1 dont think lias his ever been surpassed d in a ilici I 1 appeared in productions a ot off hero the hunter flouter mantl Mii zeppa pa and tho the temple of c death ft at the national theater lo the old zoological garden on street V aher hero tho the central ent ral now stands mand under ilia ati ot at lion kufus us welch the havin having call the isatus litter after the th by lire ot of 91 tho 0 original national Kal loDal theatt r on oil the bite alti it at occupied bytho by ico continental hold rho temple of death its title titar was waa a very excellent play Tholo ollo was w all in 4 B the be time of be horth mell spectacles or lus 1 9 1 AA ND the only great I 1 lean can boa aee in spectacles of t to 0 day dat maxies taxies ot at the pat past are in the tha baic ballet jai features featured and mand the working of tho the ol col clam lights la in the old id vines the ballot was hafl bol bach a la in ani fusil tild riot not to la gov ariy compare with ilia of the present tach each theater hall A foren of 0 tile men bud women at 1 l tadica to it U ho he boro bore ills tie baulo of ba ballet lot suit were called upon for or any ally ila dunces sees which alg lt bo be re quiren but neres and dan cicro un no CIS knoma 0 w a though a and a ding ferkalo dancer were part ot of tile regular company a 0 p ory III hougo a and nil rise it to danco acco auco between the nila mila play ol of ti tha 10 evening and the tbt conein dIng farce arce tito calcium D litcof ilia part pal faoro oro very tiry and it did d not give the octile effect to th tho 0 as they to do at prel prewit lerit biffi WITH were employed ta t cou chattin thi the gaa s in 1 stand of trio to iron bow la in vogue odd nod w storo oro not seem fk D asides that colora 0 lore I 1 glav willio which to ta aty diy giva so EO ciany and ouch euch laded harjd fight effect were not nos I 1 bell iu ili um irk in tired km ai to the see noly while eo ctr not but EO elaborate FL M it lent lant presen tit it wait WAI yet excer jingly doz thom who ro jiember the iho transformation so ecta is la vented still and gotten up dp by baad fiad k men tile the kali aa tor their panto panic livili A r I 1 the green stor asphodel and tho the rialdo rial rest do not need to how novel bod and thoy they were in point ot tho the spectacles ot of 1110 past were acro fully op DP to these of tile the formy for my own part concluded sir mr lV willial allis I 1 dont like playing in spectacular pieces as well so iia la in the legit linato arnato drama dri iain tile tho school in which 1 I was brought nil aud and which I 1 think thick the bulwark ot of the stage but popular clinn Res and add vio me actors ftc tora if we do not dot wish to be wholly lost loot flight of bauit keep in the current lind and cater to its varying phases FAKIR |