Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-20
BREAKING THE RECORD.
4 Star Reporter Goes Around tho World
In 2 Hours IS Minutes.


Bro SHOW FROM BEHIND THE scExEs-wHAr
TEE AUDIENCE DOESN'T SEE IN AROUND THE
wdRLp"--srRANaE SIGHTS TO TER uxrx-
ITIATxD.
Say, old fellow, lend me dollar"
The speaker was . gentleman in faultless
evening attire and the person appealed to was
representative Of the STAR with large and
wormy wad of secondhand money in his in
side pocket, and the time was 8 o'clock last
Wednesday evening.
Certainly" replied TIE STAR man, going
down into his cash drawer; ''Eere you are"
But he was not there. He had gone, and q
few minutes later the STAR man heard him
talking with three or four others of like
feather with himself about making Journey
around the world in Ell ghty days, and ulti-
mately he closed the dis cussion by Offering to
bet $500, spot cash that he could do it.
The bet was accepted and tho next thing the
gentleman did was to hand over TO his valet
three or four hundred thousand dollars in
change for spending money on the trip. make
u rush for q suit OF travelling clothes. and bolt
out Of the magnificent apartment or the Eccen-
trio Club to where The STAR man stood among
n lot OF Bashi Bazouks and things, With the
dollar between his thumb and finger.
"Ah! thanks, he said, with CRATE full gurgle
~ am saved from q watery grave"
That's the difference between the way play
looks to an audience out in the open space
and to person back in the wings whe n the
genuine realism Of the stage is seen in u iuxu-
rance, which Is almost rank, it is so luxuriant
ACT ONE.
A good many thousand people in Washing
ton during this week have seen Kiralfy's
around the World in Eighty Days" at AL
baugh's from the front, but not so many have
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behind the scenes" and there a representative
OF The STAR went on Wednesday evening with
Mr.. BOlossy Kiralfy, brother to Imre, the other
brother, to see what it looked like.
by the way" said the reporter as they
stood waiting for the curtain, how do YOU
pronounce that front name of yours, Mr.
Kiralfy2"
"Bolossy," responded Mr.. K, pleasantly.
"Oh, yes, see," continued the reporter
"Honesty is the best Bolossy," and all the flies
from the top OF the stage came down and
settled On the gigantic intellect OF the reporter
to MIR. X. g evident pleasure.
great spectacular play like this, which to
an audience moves in air its completely as
smoothly as O simple pair of wheels over a con-
crete pavement, represents an immense amount
OF engineering skill, and what is going on be-
hind the beautiful paintings and costumes and
tipSel and fittings and the dramatic action of
the play, which the audience sees, bears no ap-
parent relation to the mass OF properties, scene
pieces, lights, crowdIng soldiers and sailors and
Indians and rajahs and coryphees and actors
and scene shutters and supers and the hundreds
OF diversified elements which move about on
the very verge of all the glitteriug order and
symmetry before the footlights
'Ting!' goes the bell, and al the curtain
rises for the first time there il a hnrrying and
scurryiug from the stage into the wings by
those who have made al ready, and they stand
back and note the effect, while the stage man
aBer husties about preparing tor the next move
aud having those wh1 are 70 appear when theiS
time comes ready and prompt to respond.
SCENE ONE.
In the hrst scene Of Around the World"
after the prologue, the reporter stood on a
Union Pacific railroad locomotive gazing out
upon the crimson sky above the Suez canal,
while two feet from his left was the magnifcen,
steamer Magnolia, With a charming English
tourist (gnl, OF cpurse,) on deck, leaning over
the guarI talking to q sturdy scene shifter
wrAstrHg with a section OF Nile scenery, and On
the ether side Of the vessel under the truck OF
the craft The engineer had soda fountain tank
loa1 lad with steam, winch he let off at intervals
whistle bl W, four men OH the far side of
the stage grabbed rope hitched to the iib-
boom of the steamer and began to pull, the en-
ginser stopped dawn out of sigh. OF the au-
dlence and ran along up to his neck
pretty girl told the sad, sad scene.
shifter good-by and the next instant
the audience greeted the vessel with
burst OF applause, Mr.. Fogg. PassepartoSt, NJ.
OPake and the others calmly stepped clean
across the deck OF the boat from the stage and
gracefully passed off On to the dock. for all the
world (to the audience) as if they had ridden
q thousand miles on that same steamboat.
Then, you will remember, she blows her whis
tic again and goes of up the canal toward Alox-
andria or Georgetown and the travellers disap-
in, In ha
time the vessel is headed for the shore and laid
up against the wall on the o. p side, the steam
stomach is taken out of her to be reloaded for
further service in a locomotive and her sections
are taken apart to be set up again for the X,
appearance.
Her passengers by this time are hustling
around getting into their summer clothes for
the Indian climate. which is almost as warm as
Chicago was last summer, and big painted
canvas is let down from the flies like great
quilt on a Monday clothes line, and the audi
ence rees an East Indian bungalow.
SCENE TWO
A jump from Suez to India in about eighty
seconds And still it takes eighty days to go
around the world While the audience listens
to Mr.. Foggs astounding offers to the Drahmin
chief, by which he breaks the corner on ele-
plants In order to rescue the Indian Princess
Miss Helen Tracy, vino at the time is leaning
up against the c0w-catchcr of the locomotive,
WHICH, VIII appear tattf. Calmly QtSCu5SillH Win
the reporter the relation OF living elephants to
| histrionic art (fOr Miss Tracy is u really fine
legitimate actress), there is u massing of the
forces OF mCurners, OF priests. of dancers of
musicians and OF singers and moving and
placing and fitting aud fixing for the Royal
Metropolis scene. which is one OF the finest of
Its kind ever put on the stage, and not a note
| OF advertisement i'll the statement either.
The beautiful Princess. who by the way il
also HlndOO widow to be griiled on the same
| gridiron with her lato lamensed, having been
| interrupted in her conversation with the re-
porter to 90 on and tell the Old duffer OF high
priest thar although she is young and beaufi-
Iul AMI life Is very. very sweet to her Gas it is
to all young and beautiful wtdows), yet she will
| die brayely, though under profess, now comes
| of with the others through the buck door OF
the bungalow to the audience, but to those be-
hind the scenes. stepping over the rccumDen'
| mourners, who are lying out Ill tho Metropolis
waiting for the scene to SHIFT and lrlng them
| into view u the house, and once more resumes
her chat with the reporter just as il there
| never had been such u thing as domestic infs-
licity and she was not going to be roasted alive
] in the presence of her friends within the next
| few minutes-by the way, that sentence II
| nearly ns long one OF senator Evarts', ism
| iH But the Senator is not reporting any be-
hind-the-scenes business for IKE STAR thin
season.
SCENE THREE.
Now clustered thick in every op,nng Of the
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