Show STAGE ILLUSIONS the extent to which stage illusion can an be carried by skilful managers ie Is illustrated by the tile following account 0 of f a ballet which i was as presented at la ocala in milan the opening scene of the tile performance was a shipwreck wreck the lighta lights in tho the theater were kept low and arid indeed the place waa was so dark that it was some feconda after the curtain curlain had risen before the audience was aware of the fact presently out of the darkness dr kness forked lightning was seen and ani it illuminated a surging sea stretched right down to the footlights the billows seemed to beat upon the rocks at only a little distance die tanco from the proscenium and then a light was seen indicating the position of the distressed ship when the eye became accustomed to the gloom the outline of the horizon dividing the clouds from the ocean was rendered visible by and by as the tempest subdued the moon arose struggling through the clouds illuminating the raging billows billo a and the masts of the ship which presently dashed itself upon the rocks it would be impossible to describe the vividness of tile lie effects of light and darkness in this spectacle and arid yet they were ere produced by very simple means thu the stage and the theater had been kept so dark that there were actually only two wave rolls one big piece of rock to tile left the ship in III the distance a break cloth at tho back tor for tha horizon and a roughly painted sky with white clouds upon it through kilell sailed an admirably contrived moon the tito forked lightning was by elite slits in the ca canvas covered with specially prepared muslin behind flashes of 0 light A ere played from time to imo time the whole thing was of the cheapest and arid timp simplest lest construction but marvelously realistic TUB TIM ador pon people of utah who have heretofore here tolore introduced thin this paper fearlessly into the sacred preci precincts aLtS of their homes will be terrified to learn that t the he alor ro js if not pot a respectable journal lie its offence was jor pressing sympathy for honest settlers rett lera sought to be dispossessed of their homes by the central Iaci pacific fic railway company or by some party acting mider cover rit of its name XV Vv all herself I 1 the sw new venice 11 pretty pi sire stretch ell of the tile imagination for a town located a tholand thou and milt miles inland I 1 |