Show HORSE ON THE STAGE SPRANG INTO THE ORCHESTRA presence of mind of a number of men prevented a panic in the theater east st louis ills nov 24 while a performance was in progress at ane broadway opera house last night a horse utilized in the last act to draw the heroine in a buggy became frightened and sprang over the footlights into the orchestra the heroine fell unconscious to the stage and three women in the audience fainted while the horse floundered around in the orchestra chairs with its hoofs and creating excitement in the theater presence of mind of a number of men in seizing the horse and sitting on it at the s une time admonishing the people to sit down prevented a panic |