Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-30

brought before a long suffering public
la II certain sort of plays. About the
only real thing that has been rigidiy
excluded from this class of plays has
been real actors.
Tbs great success OF Messrs. "Spikc"
IIennessy and kid Mccoy, the real
burglars now playing IA profitable en-
gagement in II local theater, led them,
it is understood. some time ago to
think seriously of producing play of
their own shortly IN which everything
will be real. Accordingly they began
to collaborate, and it is reported that
their play is practically complete. but
little remaining except TO arrange part
OF the cast and map out the route. Mr..
Hennessy himself will manage the
play, while Mr.. Mccoy will assume the
part OF the leading burglar and star
The play will open with n splendidly
mounted tank scene in which the tank
will cover the entire stage and be
fairly Overlooking with real water.
High above will be n real suspension
bridge. A real tug will be steaming
about the back of the tank and couple
OF real barrels and a real silk hat lost
10y real Brooklyn man will float past.
Suddenly Mr.. Steve Brodie will appear
on the bridge and leap into the tank,
Mr. Brodie having been secured as
''iirst jumping gent" as Mr.. Hennessy
puts it. The engagement Of Mr..
Brodic as leading jumper, Mr.. Hen
messy, with pardonable pride, says he
considers remarkable managerial en-
terprise. He trusts that it will not
materially reduce the receipts of
Booth, Barrett and Mod jeslta in their
contemplated tour. Mr. Hennessy de-
sires that Art may be successful in
whatever form it may appear
The other act will follow in rapid
succession. A smaller tank will be in
troduced in the third in which some
person from the audience who really
wants to commit suicide will leap in
and be rescued by q real policeman.
There will he a street scene in the
second act, in which a real street.
sweeping machine will be introduced
IL will be the first appearance of the
sweeper on any stage, though il has
been rehearsing for some time. There
will be n real letter-boX fastened TO a
lamp-post and the audience can step
forward and mail their letters, rs II
real letter-carrier will come along and
get them in the last act. A real street.
car will have a collision with real
ash-cart and the drivers will indulge in
a real fight. A man who has swung q
bnnch OF shoe strings at Broadway and
Ncsey streets for two years will appear
ms shoe-string peddler. He will be
blown up by real subway explosion
in the fourth act. There will be
real cocking-main, and n resl Texas
stage robber will "hold up the Or
chcstra.
At the end of the act there will be
real fire scene. A man now serving n
ten-years term for arson at Sing Sing,
but whose sentence will expire before
the first night. will come in and in full
view Of the audience set the theatre on
fire. 1t will he burned 20 the ground
and as the delighted spectators escape,
their pockets will be picked by real
pickpockets, those having orchestra
seats being sand-bagged in the lobby,
while patrons OF the dress circle and
balcony will be run over by the real
fire-engines coming to attempt to sub
due the conflagration. The cost of
procuring a new theatre for each per-
iOrmance will be great, but Manager
Spike is not a man TO falter at expense
Texas Siftings.