| Show fiRE DESTROYS FAMOUS THEATER Historic House or In Paris Parl s Swep Flames O rr WAS SS A AW I 1 Theater J Out nu an hour rime An Am Afternoon Paris S S liO p tTe famous theater Francale has bas been been detrow destroyed by fire firc The lire fire broke out about noon but was not Immediately and the theater was burning furlou furiously ly before the brIgade got otto to work vork Even then tim the appliances w were ro Quite made Inalle quate to cope with by 13 p rn m the Int or of tile the bull build building Ins ing was a roaring ce 3 30 p II dens column of smoke rl rising from the fre attracted crowds crowd from nil of PAris farls the thi henter F c ni i bl being regarded cg rd d a as a national institution The theater stands almost isolated wih with a square In trout frota Ind and the gardens or of the l all Royal b behind Hoth of at t these space spaces were wih with people who as this dispatch Is sent ent at p rn m are ealer eagerly watching the operations or of the Iho firemen fremen who are ure about the root The firemen Were engaged In saving I as lu much h or of the os as possible and the quare 1 In front ot of the theater was littered wih with furniture etc The theater which Is the tho home ot of the Comedic WW was only reo re reopened opened a fortnight I ago co utter having been renovated for tor the exposition throng expected to PArs j durin durIng the year eal wih with flumes Pita drama Driano L for tor which a special set of scenery and costumes had been provided pro vided It Is fortunate tha that the fr fire broke out so er early a as one hour later Inter the building would have hare been tilled with n a matinee audience and I a probably hare hae resulted Thus fa far on only I a fm few personal have haQ been reported and they are mostly slight wih with the or of I a who was fright frightfully tuly fully burned about the rare fare and who mo may die a as a result of at her InJuries The theater contaIned may many pieces of at sculptures dramatists and also some fome beautiful mural paintings which doubtless were ruined A rehearsal or of the comedy which wn was bie billed for the matinee maUnee had bad just when hen the tire broke out I Indeed dam Pul pud i 10 terrt on the ibe Mago talo I when an electric wire and a spark catching the the whole bole stage stae wa Was soon In lames One Madame Dudle Dudie bad to be rescued In costume and ond let down from I Li window Madame adame fled In terror and was wal overcome by b the flames flamel an and perished M the playwright arrived on the Icene scene a at about 1 and burst Into leAI teats when hen he IU saw the building wall van doomed A part of at the dome col at p m The Theater Francais or Comedic was situated on the du near the Paints Roy Royal nl al and occupied the highest rank among amone the or of France I It was wan buit built In but was much alered altered In later laler years the facades being mod modern modera era ern The dark vestibule contained a statue of Talma time by David Dald DAngers and l figures of tragedy and comey comedy b by Durt Duret hearing res the features or of the celebrated actress MIle le Rachel and Mile Ut Mar Mars The Public wan adorned wih with the tho statue or of lre by n a chimney Illece with lh n a relief represent representing ing Ine comedians crowning the figure gure or of Moliere by Lequesne busts and Reene scenes from the writings of celebrated French dramatists and n a new ceiling b by the younger ot of Truth en enlightening lightening the world At the end of the corridor lending leading out or of the foyer fOer WI was a statue of George Sand b by The ceiling ot of the Interior represented France distributing laurels to her three grett gret dramatists Moliere Cornele Cornellie and Racine The re f is under control but still burning remains Only a D shell of at the The c charred corse corpse of a woman waB found In the ruins I It was ns a that of at Mademoiselle not Madame adame who WAs a promising young oung actress The face Wa 10 so burned that I it Wi was difficult to identity her After examInation belet belief Is expressed that the tire Ore I or of Incendiary origin |
