Show OLD SETTINGS 4 simplicity as scenery na Properties lz 1675 saturday review the following very curious notes of the scenery and properties deemed necessary essaiy at the royal theatre in paris in 1675 will tive an idea of how little attention was paid to scenic effects for the production of les Hora by P C oneille rne ille a palace of adv kind in the first act an arm ch att in the second act two arm clial rs two slid a big chair for the king in the last act for ad ro maque all that is needed is a asce tilt columns in the back r 0 d the sea for le g ahr of moliere any kind of chambee cham bet six and two candle ticks the same ill do for torture Tor tute 1 11 in england things were a little bet er for in mr tom Cor yate tile to stretcher writing I 1 rom venice says the house here is beggarly add base a d with our stately houses I 1 n chingo lou n son neither can their actors capare with ours in apparel show and music there were eight thea tore in london in the reign of charles 11 and punchs play laoue ill convent garden gave exceedingly elaborate if wa aby judge from the following bill for the night of july jtb 1664 v hen ball of man was with a variety of seen e a arid machines particularly the scene of paradise and its ancient inhabitants the subtlety of the serpent in betraying adam and eve etc with a variety of diverting interludes too many to be inverted here no person to be admitted ith masks and habits nor any money to he re turned affee the curtain is up boxes two all illings and pit ono shilling all beginning at 7 |