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Show An Arousing Scene In Court. One of the most amusing yet unexpected unex-pected sensation scenes ever witnessed in a theatre occurred at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. The curtain drew up for Mr. Toole to address the court in re Bardell vs. Pickwick, when the whole of the jury mysteriously disappeared, their "box" suddenly giving way and ingulfing the "good men and true." At first the vast audience who crowded every part of the theatre were silent, j fearing some dreadful accident had occurred, oc-curred, but as the unlucky jurymen rapidly reappeared, unhurt, though looking look-ing very foolish, they broke out into a perfect hurricane af laughter, which lasted Beveral minutes. The curtain had to be dropped to allow the jury to be "boxed" again, and when Mr. Toole began his address he provoked another hurst of risibility by alluding to the jury as "that worthy body of steadfast stead-fast and immovable men." A peculiarly amusing feature of this novel scene was the fact that the majority major-ity of the "jury" were stage carpenters, whose duty it was to erect the "court," and they suffered in this case for their own carelessness; London Tit-Bits, |
