The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-14

Sig. Salvini takes the part or samson
in this play and is said to be as good a
! trapedian as ever acted out on the stage.
/ can not give his exact language here
but it was very good indeed / thought.
l did not find tho place in my ibretto,
however, till the next to the last act
and then tho lights were all turned of
so that | could not get at the drift Of his
remarks exactly.
Sig Salvini is q large, powerful look
ing man with deep voice and largo
sub-chest. He wears long, black wig
wherein his muscle Is supposed to re-
side.
In an evil hour he meets Philistine
girl named Delilah who has been great
deal talked about and falls in love with
her. He speaks to her in Italian, to
which she replies In good English. All
their courtship is conducted in this way
without the aid OF an interpreter. Final
ly to quiet the tongue Of gossip he mar
ries Delilah and they take a little bridal
tour by canal.
In tho meantime he proposes riddle
to tho Philistines which they are about
to give up when the idea OF securing the
cooperation OF Delilah occurs to them.
They give her new tea gown and she,
while Samson is sleeping off a large jag,
goes to his trunk, finds the joke book
from which it is taken and tells the
Philistines the answer.
This naturally provokes Sig. Sam
son, who starts out and kills quite a
quantity of Philistines with the jaw
bone OF man named Veritas. They do
not mind being killed, Of course so much
as they do the humiliation OF having
their brains knocked out by the jaw
bone Of man who had none himself.
One OF the saddest scenes is the one
where Delilah, in order to secure some
valuable silver ware and clothing, seeks
out the secret of Samson's great
strength. She speaks very pleasantly
to him and gives him Manhattan cock
tail which he ought to know would 60 to
his head for there is about quart of it.
Gradually Samson gets more talk
alive and finally he becomes sleepy.
Before he goes to sleep, however, he
manages to tell what he knows, which
does not take him but q little while.
She sends out for pair of shears and
while the orchestra softly plays "Chippy
Get Your Hair Cut" Delilah docks him.
Finally he awakes and feels real mis-
cradle. He calls Dclilah "huckster of
filthy kisses Kenditrice de Lozzi bach
questo capo mto-are his exact words at
this time.
To make long story short, he next
appears as the blind and Inundated
champion of Israel. His hands are man
acled together with trick chain which
he breaks when he remembers that his
hair is grown. He now sees way to
fulfill the prophecy made at his birth,
for while the Philistines are banqueting
in the temple, he can hear their laughter
and the stories of the after-dinner
speakers as they take advantage of the
drunkenness Of the people, to tell them
some feeble anecdotes of the prehistoric
variety.
He knows that thousands of these peo-
pie are there and as the jaw-bone OF Old
Pro Bono Publico is not at hand, he lays
hold OF the papier mache pillars OF the
temple and by dextrous movement,
brings down the house.
The story is thrilling one, though l
fear have not been able to make 1t
seem so, and Sig. Salvini makes a
deep impression on the audience, even
on those who do not understand his Ian
guage.
To show his wonderful recuperative
powers, though now over sixty, l will add
that after his death, he came before the
curtain and bowed twice in the Italian
tongue.
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