Show HER LIFE IN HER HAND the baring feat to be performed at the theatre Thres day ight variety shows please more people and as a consequence make more money than any other class of theatrical entertainments tain ments the specialty company of beilly and which appears thursday evening at the theatre nad pru bably the best artists to be found napier and marzello do an original horizontal bar abot melville and ste son tilt imitators and dialect men imro fox the conjuror mona delaur and mile delimont De bimont gingera and change artists sparks the comedian john and nellie henley grotesque dancers pat It eilly the comedian besabe gilbert the corne and the maidia eis via are some of the features there latter employ a wonderful ing arrangement made of silver called a trapeze on which they perform and execute several daring feats which are likely to cause the spectators to shiver with a delightful sort of dread they are graceful pretty and as self possess edin their work as if it was nothing more than running a sewing machine but the point of the whole performance is lizzie gaidis cleapor rather dive from the dome of alie theater A person who saw the dive in a new york theater describes it as follows 1 I am not so interested in that as I 1 am to kiauw if miss lizzie is afraid I 1 chanced to be high up at one side of the house the other when they were waiting to enter they were standing hand in hand in the wings and as the music quickened up the two leirla kissed one another quietly before coming on I 1 dont know why I 1 took more interest ii them afterward but I 1 did the younger face ao serious and at moments almost sad was especially attractive to me I 1 realized that possibly they as I 1 did that in of practice baill and nerve they do take iligir lives into their handa every time hey go up that rope by the way there is nothing more graceful in the whole chow than the descent of the rope from that fandango trapeze of theirs I 1 wonder if her heart swells up in her throat aa she slowly bends forward to get a steady turn as do so many of ilia hearts that watch her do it this is the kofl powerful dramatic spectacle today to day in relation to its stage ia aa a gladiatorial combat in home to a tragedy of the awe and apell of the reality of the thing the wo mans life fluttering flutter ini through tae void to go out perhaps it seems almost certainty on the crimson mattress in the net the hush and suspense as she poises for the leap the upturned faces white and strained the nervous assist ait on the stage the sister in the wings looking up with grim composure are painfully and the woman herself leaning carelessly against the cornice in the blaze of the reflector you wonder what her sensations are she boea up blithely with her hand in a metal ring and her body swinging lightly you study her face with a glass though the distance makes even khatun satisfactory but what you see is ony perfect impassiveness a little restlessness perhaps in tho eyes and a deepening of the thin lines above the month but no sign of fear indecision almost of calculation and yet she moves carefully saving herself without an unnecessary muscular quiver at exactly the right second must turn so as to fall on her back and distribute the force of the fall over the greatest possible surface hile you are going over these calculations in your mind she leaps A bright body falls heavily on the mattress is thrown upwards ten feet turns a somersault as it dea cenda again and the leaper is safe and bows and the house cheers madly |