Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-28
pEaYH AND rHE TREATER.
Some Rsm arknbic CeineideRoes-a ct0ra
E1pro Uhiis simulEtios death.
London Standard.

Some Rsm arknbic CeineideRoes-a ct0ra
E1p!ro vhiis simulGtiog death.
London Standard.
Il is recorded Ct julius C@5sr that in
his oHn theAter his passion SO overckme
him during the piece that when one Of
the actors brought him poisoned shirt
dipped in the blood Of the ceutaur Nessas,
instesd of pretending on.y to kill him he
did 80 actually, and threw his body over
his head. In Ike manner one OF the
earliest passion plsys OF which We have
any account WAS rendered terrible in its
result. 1t was acted in Sweden in 1913,
in the reign OF John Il. Lerg,s. The
actor had to pierce the side of the person
representing our Savior "a he hung upon
the cross. His religious excitement was
so crest that ne plunged the lance into
the man and killed MIN. And this was
not the end CT 1t, for the kirg, indignant
at such bru.alisy, slew Lsrgis, and the
people incersed a. the death Of their
fIyor!te actor, cut eff the kings head
30 81 least history tells Is. In more recent
tim, death has fre quently played an I'M
Welcome part upon the stage. There once
WAS theater in L!ncoln's Iun Fields.
ana here celebrated actor named S2iller
WAS, IN the early part OF the Last century.
mortsilY stricken by spoplexy while play
ing in tn, Rape Of Proeerpiue. similar
fate befeIl no less than three we'll known
French actors about toe same time
These wers Morfeury, M0ndory and Bril-
court.
Fifty years lstsr tie celebrated Peg
Woffiag.or, when acting as Rossl!nd, In
Repeating It's epiiGgue to GAS You Like
It," WAS struck Down by EsIalysis alter
repeating the words: "I'd kiss as mary Of
From taIs sttstk sac Dsyer covered,
although SIZE iint e:ed fer nearly tacse
years ere death released her Samuel
Foo.e, lie English AvistopaaneE, IS BIT
was called, hsd similar seizure while
acting in as own comedy, "chs Devil
| Upon THo Sticks" agd died few
months after Esld. Th3re WAS q CHASTITY
appropriateness In the death Of sn .ctoi
named Patterson, who for long time
was prominent member OF the Norwich
Theatrical Company. He was taking the
part Of the duke Ia "Msasufe for Mass u.
ure," and had no sooner uttered the
words
Reason thus with life:
II do lose thee. losea thing
That none but fools would keep; breath thou
art.
Then he dropped into brother actor'i
arms and died suddenly. The tragic
death CT Palmer, the original Joseph Sur
iscs, liz well known. He WAS playing In
"Ths Stranger" st Liverpool. In the
fourth act, allucing to his wife ard chill
dren. be had inst uttered the words, "Oh,
| God! G oc thsre is another and O letter
world" when lie fell dead at the feet Ct
Whitfield, who acted Baron S!einfoTt
The singular thing shout these real stage
tragedies is tbs Invisible Ink that con-
meets the lsss words CT the actor with the
moment of his death. Cumming Was per.
forming in "Jane Shore" He EXP ired or
the stage immediately after recitlng the
following lines:
| Be witness for me, We celestial hosts
/ Such mercy and euch pardon as my soll
| Accords to thee, and begs Of heaven to show
| thee.
May iuch sefan me at my latest hour.
The explanation probably is latent hesr'
disease brought into activity by the de
pressing thoughts suggested by the
words. As, for instance, when Miss
Maria Lindley expired at Bath some years
sgo. while singing az know that my Res
deemer Eveth.n The Instances Of death
on the stage from culpaole negligence
are, unfortunately, numerous enough
Royalty once witnessed one oil
these accidents st Arnstadt. Mime
Linsky, In the course Of &ht
play, had to be fred 81 by : file Of sol
diers. The men had been instructed
before loading tneir pieces, to bite Of ths
bullet when biting the cartridge. Thii
one Of them neglected to do, and death
was the result. A similar accident orct
happened IL Dublin. A coriurer, IL
performing the feat CT catching .
bH,ls. fred from pistol in hi