Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-16
Realisn or tho Stag o.

R00llsl IN OF tho Stn8 o.
"That is the kind OF an article don't
lik. to read. That il to say, it's the sort
of information that ! hate to feel has
gone out to thousands of readers this
morning
The speaker was AN old actor, and the
end of his forptingers rested on a para
graph of comment in the New YORK
Sun on the fact that the Legion OF
Honor" company was disturbed by an
cry charges of dishonor. :,
"Wha | want to get into your mind,
he continued, sis the idea that the illu
sions of the stag. ought to be preserved.
can remember when an actor was
kind of mysterious TO the general pub,
lie; when q hero on the stage WAS hero
off the stage, in the estimation OF his
admirers. The members Of the Legion
of Honor shouldn't he known except as
the high toned parsonages they repre-
sent in the drama. The newspaper
don't you see"-are giving away our
business. That isn't judicions OF the
newspapers, do you think? There's an
ILLUSTRATION of my argument right IN
here" and h- jerkei his thumb toward
the Union square Theatre. "fou' vo
seen the Lights o London" Well,
when YOU saw Charley Thorne ~ the
prosecuted hero leap from the bridge
into the water to rescue the very villain
who had helped to ruin him you yelleh
with delight. Maybe you didn't, but
for certain you heard the rest OF the
audience yell and clap and stamp
They were carried away with excite
ment. They called Thorne out two or
three times, and would have hung lau
rel wreaths around his neck II they'd
had any. What was it made the scene
20 with such IA rush? The bridge was
well painted, the acting was spi ritcd
and the stream look d natural, but those
things didn't get the people. III tell
you what it was, Tr. 1t was the real
water that spashed up when Thorne
jumped in. Eli?
cha. ia true" the listener assented.
"To see genuine water spurt up gave
the realistic touch. 1t was the perfect
illusion that carried EN- away. So?'
"Yes "
"Well, now, what's tle use of telling
the public that it wasn't real water at
all. 1t wasn't nothing but handful OF
rock salt, mixed with little bits Of mica
When the spectator knows this 1t half
spells the pleasure for him."
After a dramatic panSc, for the rock
salt and mica revelation 10 have It's full
effect, the old actor continued; AN
other destroyer of stage illuSi n is the
dissemination OF knowledge about tine
personal relations of tie performers
The audiences over at Booths Theatre
will enjoy the 1.-TWO Orphans all the
better if they don't know that
Miss Kate Claxton, the pursued blind
girl, is the wife of Charley Stevenson,
who acts the pursuer or that the Mar
auis de Presrs is at this minute being
sued by his wife for divorce. And over
at the Windsor isn't it a hel to the
acting of John A. Stevens ~ he insane
hero and Miss LOttie Church ~ the hero
inc that the sympathetic crowd doesn't
know that they have for years been com
fortablv married? Miss Fanny Daven-
port il the well aud hehr'y wife OF Ed
mund Price, the manager Of her com.
pany, aud you ought not TO have that
fact In your mind when you &c" her dy-
ing ~ Camille at the Fifth Avenue.
Her sister May, who plays Nanine, is to
marry Willie Seymour in few weeks
George Clarke, who is the Armand Of
the piece, by the way, isn't either the
brother or husband of Miss Lillian
Cloves Clark, who played with him at
Nib!o's some time ago. She has just
been married to Richard +. Foote, who
was her lover in "The Farmers Daugh-
ter, in Brooklyn last week.
To return to Camille good old
Charles Fisher, the M. Duval is the
husband Of the young Nchette. The
pretty Miss Lillian Russell, the Snake
Charluer of the Bijou, is the wife of
Tony Pastors orchestra leader. Nine,
Januschek Is Mrs Frederick Pilot.
Miss Rose Temple, of the PatieDces,
Miss Clara Morris is Mrs. Harriotr.
Louis James and Miss Marie VAIN
wright, who were the lovers of Bar
rett's recent season at the Fifth Ave.
nua, are married. Miss Victoria NOkes
is Mrs. Wright. The much photogra-
pled Miss Branscom be is Mrs Stuart.
Miss Agnes Booth, of the Madison
Square, is Mrs J. Booth, formerly Mrs
Perry. Mis. Chanfrau bravely bills
herself as married at the Fourteenth
street. Ellie Elsler, the Sweetest of
the Hazel Kirkes, il Mrs. Frank Wes-
ton. Miss Fanny Moraut, of Days,
Mrs. Charles Smith. Mile Marie Bose
Of the opera, is Mrs. Henry Mapseson,
and Nile Cavallazzi, tho chief dancer
at the Academy, is Mrs. Charles Maple
son"
"Hold on. Won't you leave an I'M
actress on the New York
stage ?"
ooh, there are plenty-the Misses
Jewette and Harrison at the Union
Square, COghlan and Boniface at Wal
lacks, Burton and at least half the
esthetic maidens at the Standard, and
next week Mary Anderson at Booths.
though report has her engaged 10 q
Baltimore man. But wasn't making
\ matrimonial directory. was simply
.rguing that, to preserve the illusion
If the drama, the actors shouldn't be
Known personally, except as the dim,
superior beings that they
iscd TO be taken for. DO you catch my
dea "--Phila. Times.