Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-04-10
How they Die d the stag.

hVV my nv 49,
"That' s. what you're after" said G.
A. Graver, the courteous stage manager
of Haverly's Brooklyn theater to a Star
reporter. Show do actors die on the
stage? In various ways, should say;
from great many causes, OF nom no
causes at all In shooting scenes young
and inexperienced actors will fall before
YOU see the fash or hear the report of
the pistol shot. To stand without
flinching while pistol is aimed at you
is not very easy. In our early days we
fired cork balls at each other to over
come our nervousness. Shooting acci-
dents are numerous on the stage. l.
need not remind you of the latest fatal
case in Baltimore. Once we took six
muskets from the property-rOom and
found six slugs in every one Of them.
ssAs to myself, l have suffered all man
ners of death. figuratively. in the past
twenty-five years, This is the first sea-
son in that long period that I am not
acting. There were heavy pieces in
which had to die every night for,
weeks. do not approve of Salvini's
death scenes, nor of the hospital at
mosphere on the stage. Death from
corrosive poison is preceded by ex-
cruciating pains. Are they hit subject
for illustration? w. GOodall person.
ated at Barnum's Museum a drunkard
suffering from delirium tremens. He
was seized with spasms, and was car
ried off the stage, utterly exhausted:
His representation of his celebrated
character of Edward Middleton, the
Drunkard, was too realistic and re-
| pulsive to the audience.
{ Consumption on the stage has not
spread much on this side OF the Atlantic.
: Clara Morris has her peculiar cough as
, Lady of the Camelias. Matilda Heron
surpassed her in that character. In
Jack Sheppard occurs a scene
) where cloth is thrown over mans
\ head and two ruffians club him to death.
4. The cloth was getting saturated with
l.. blood. The spectators objected to so
: brutal an exhibition, and now the blud-
g geons do their work off the stage. OF a
: dozen men shot in play, each one will
: act and die differently.
n "At the old Park Theatre, under Mrs.
s Conway's management, swung from
|. the limb of tree on the stage and pre-
;. vented the commission of a murder.
+: The villain in the piece had inveigled a
d girl into a mountain glen, where he had
Il already dug grave for her. l heal
d her cries for help while standing on the
e top of cliff twenty feet high, and grasp
5. ing the limb of tree l swing down
a rescue the girl, and, with . terrific
Ie blow of the spade, kill the villain. A
r. the rehearsal 1 discovered a defective
', spot in the sapling, which was to enable
,r the rescuer to make his descent.
TO 81 pointed out the weak part to the car
he penter, who entered into an argumen
f. and claimed the hickory was strong
n. enough to hold an elephant. To put i
if to test, ran up the cliff and swun:
IL down. The sapling did break at tn
r. point had indicated, and fell down
10 but landed safely on my feet. Next tim
er another sapling snapped, and Coli
IS Stuart broke his arm. Death by hang
id ing is frequent occurrence on the stage
e, l was led 10 the gallOws many times, TO
k instance, in the Carpenter Of Rouen
e. and in Jessie Brown by Boucicault.
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