| Show THE yio ylo MOMENT MENT nent the death of gottschalk while at st the piano in the act of performing his hia famous composition ila la morte is by no means the firt firlet circumstance of its kind related in dramatic and musical history we recall immediately moliere and his hia malade 11 the chief personage in the comedy is a sick man which part was played by the author himself it was the fourth night ni gatof of the run moliere mollere weak and alling ailing a ii ng went on for the character h ar aeter acter and got through it until the scene in which his business was to fall as jf dead this he did so well that the audience as well as the in the deceived but alas it was no acting for fon the poor dramatist was wag dead in tr truth uth nth sosaya so bayles account but in another book there is a statement that moliere was ai attacked tacked in the scene where he speaks of rhubarb and senna passing himself off onu for a physician the blood gushing from his hib h Is mouth and nostrils and Ms his limbs limba quivering q ul vering with con aulsion vui slon sion he was ta taken k e home and his sufferings eringa ceas ceased e d forever fo r e ver two tio hours afterward in biographical history there are some names especially interesting te terest lug ing to readers of all tastes one of these is poor wilmot the earl of rochester ester of whom poor hawthorne spoke tenderly in his english travels and another captain farquhar died during the run of his 4 beaux perhaps his very best work look on them kindly said he in his letter to of hla hia two little children soon to be fatherless fa therle therie so for the sake of him who was to the I 1 last as t hour of his life thine 17 with hughes it was more singular still he died in an hour after he received the account of the success of his siege of damascus moody the tragedian fell a corpse in the very middle of his hla performance for mance of claudio in Shake measure for measure he had been very melancholy for some time on account of the loss of some member of his family and on the evening of the play was more than once seen to retire to his dressing room and weep butil impersonation was much better than it had ever been before so much so indeed that his fellow actors remarked it at last in the scene where isabella bids him prepare for execution ec ution and ho he answers in those beautiful lines beginning 1 ay gay but to die and go we know not where ho suddenly became faint and fell to the stage the audience for a moment imagined it was a new anew point and applauded accordingly but the truth was very soon made manifest claudios elaud Claud loa ioa heart had burst burs t with grief somewhat similar was the death of john palme palmer r for I 1 chom sheridan may be said to have written the school for scandal 11 the bill of the night was the stranger strange r 11 like moody beset belet with melancholy for some time before played the gloomy coun countin in the early acts sets with unusual effect uttering the line there is another and a better world with most touching tou ch chi i pathos be he suddenly enli paused closed bis his eyes and leaned up upon 1 on the francis orthe of the night mr whitfield he had spoken his last words upon earth edmund keans last appearance was in othello of which occasion barry cornwall and mr hawkins hawking have hav e given very touching teaching accounts it seems that all had gone well until thard third act gleams of theold the old oid fire ld flashed forth and aad electrified the houas houam hous houa as in the tha eary early days add and aid see the tragedian yet yeb recover ad play many manx times again but who he came to tb those grand ha lines iines nes oh now nw fowe forrer r 1 farewell Va rewell the tranquil midi farewell f con tent he be paused then forth in tones solemn and sweet as tb th wailing of an organ tones so full fall c love so wild with vain negra that thab eternal adieu to happiness in which chave heh eav ing of a breaking heart the despairing lament of a lost soul boul he hd proceeded slowly slowly until th tb music musto of the last cadence became lit a breath Ot hellos occupation sone one it was over overl the house roe rob ic frantically speak to them theme char whispered the actor factor to his son eon I 1 am dying and so he was wai yet adother strange anecdote may be relate of this fatal coincidence in death in ln american actress whose name wehe weave forgotten was performing the sheppard Inthe diatha of ly in one scene her busino was waa to stab herself er elf eif now 11 sald said she laughingly to some bome one a i the wing wili 9 just ju at before entering ont Out the cene 1 t I will go on and be hilled killed and ten go home ll 11 thoughtless jest she ha scarcely stepped forward three feet more a heavy weight fell from the fil fit and crushed crishe her instantly in the cees of moody and palmer it is probate that their spirits already in A a stat of deep despondency spon dency were tellous affected in the parts they were forming deforming pe actors of strong nervous temperament very often lose their ident iden in this manner so much so as ta togi give vevay veray vay ray to violent fits of weeping g in the vry middle of deta dena their most moat demonstrative arb ark and thus render themselves unable to give the effect that a violent passa ip requires the supreme moment athen dahan rt hen han acting is most needed ay very otto proves the moment that nature hersea herse fis fig Is supreme and the part is lost in th thi natural life that even the st strongest t nerve masi mast yield to |
