Show dead la in the box A correspondent correspond ezit relates the following melano melancholy holy incident which mccurr occurred e d the other evening at the theater deai paris during the presentation of loiseau LOi sean bleu blen 1 performance Tae was interrupted by it a sudden sadden ces cessation gation in the dialogue and the leading lady was seen to look intently into the prompters box before the flie footlights it happened that this was iri ia the most interesting point of the third act and naturally all eyes followed those of the leading lady the audience of c course ce e could not see the cause of the interruption ter but the artists on the stage noticed that the prompter had fallen asleep sleep fi and by an ft unfortunate fortunato coincidence the actress had forgotten her lines at the same moment after waiting half a minute and th the e man giving g no evidence of returning to consciousness one of the actors stepped forward and gently shook him there was no response and looking closer those upon the stage saw that tb the e prompter was dead without dropp dropping the curtain the people on the stager stage remained in their vc veri us positions that the incident found them the manager stepped to the front and made his explanation the body was dragged down under the stage and a new prompter tei climbed into his while the pla proceeded with only a three Min titi wait boston transcript |