Show A sawmill saw mill on the stage writing to the ritts pittsburg burg dispatch from london hepburn john bays while lewe we are upon the subject of sensational drama I 1 must tell you ot of joe arthurs idea for the central color point ot of the new play tie he will produce in new york next jail jail he intends having a large sawmill saw mill null in lull full ration aeration upon the stage the saws will not only be practicable but the real article and of the largest kind they will be operated by steam and an engine will be carried by the company when the pla play goes on tile the roud road toe tile way 0 mr arthur proposes to utilize the saws is undoubtedly ingeni ous and as far as I 1 can discover an effect original although ir a second rate play was produced once in which a paper saw operated on the stage was a minor feature one of the characters in the play is subject to tits of insanity he has IL a quarrel with a nother another man about a woman ana in self defense knocks him down the fight occurs close to the saws in the mill and the man who is knocked down falls on the lumber which is slowly being drawn under the teeth of the saw just J at this point the t he other man becomes be comes temporarily insane and in chis his madness without really wishing to commit murder lie he refused refuges to move to th assistance of the man he be has knocked down but t the lie wife of a man who is approaching pro aching a horrible death sees ag t the e situation from a window ot of a room in the mill in which she has been locked in full sight of the audience she cuts through the door and gets on the stage just in time to drag her insensible husband from the revolving saws now only an inch away she after bidding the workmen who swarm in as soon as they are not wanted particularly ticul arly to lynch the would be murderer of her husband faints gracefully in the sawdust the audience watching the man gradually getting closer to the deadly saw it can be readily understood would be wrought up to a pitch of great excitement the critics when the time comes will doubtless point out the moral of this new chapter of sensationalism |