New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-25

dience for their patronage, and informs late
comers that they are invited to remain and see
the next performance, which will BEGIN IN five
minutes This is the polite Algerian way OF
showing the door to those who came in carly.
The manager has hard time with his orchestra
during these hve-minutc intervals They invaria-
bly, try 70 escape by sncaking out through side
door of the theatre. The manager chas"s them,
and then there begins long and heated argument
in which the pursuer invariably wins. and the
crestfallcn musicians return ~ their places
Torture dances are occasionally given at this
theatre The performers are men, and the audi
cncc usually becomes entirely masculine after the
fire. dance for few women have the strength Of
nerves to remain and see the thing ont The
dancers seem TO be afflicted with epleptic fits at
first. Gradually they calm down and devote
themselves To what imprcsses the audience IA a
series of novel and ingenious attempts at suicide
Ono man eats live Goals. glassware and bits Of
crockcrv: another picrccs his tongue with a sharp
w nointod iron stick, while third thrusts a
sword into his body and seems 70 find thr sonsa-
tion delightful. Live scorpions form the princi-
nal article of diet INDUCED in by one performer
oro.bor dances with a wrggling adder attached to
b;s noso nv its fangs still another makes hu-
man nincushion Of himself, with dagGerS Tor pins,
ord when he has planted enough knives IN his
eosh- he varies the monotony of the proceeding
h,- dancing on red hot iron plates with bare icet.
Whom the performance is over you hurry out ior
an ambulance. only to find on Your return thlt
.ho dancers are bowling gracefully 70 the audience
o"a chat they show no signs Of the torture
60 which they have submitted themselves
, AMONG THE CELEsTIALs.
The Chinese theatre is not 81 novel an a''r"c-
,on &C il would have been few years ago. nciorc
Now-york had one Of it, own still thr average
p,,ieancc visitor finds much to interest DIN 'h"rc
corui,c rlavs arc given, though, out OF
1oc.ro,co "a American TASTE they are boiled down
o. a very great extent play that "o"l' iaS'
ch;roman several months in his own country
ooorn;os Int half an hour in its Amerrah'z"' ana
! ,,,n,,.;atod state The theatre is IN larg" room
| =. QUO ond Of China's building on vi" ilai>a"'"
+. bos seating capacity for several huhuro" pro-
| I and an average attendant" az eat" % '''
pr,' "' ,,orrorn,nccS Of from one to TIRE" doz'r
rer.ons On one occasion four "on'" a" ""
mau constituted the a""icho'' '
! given just the SAM al .bo dram 8.
n Tho first play | saw began with "a mono
| hr = venerable gentleman who Wore ii iohH
Tito hoard He was very much "h'res@e
| o,binc or other. but not rccol'ihS any
''o'' 49,, from the audience, he Literally 'ooh
ue,r the orchestra, which aS III al ''''
p,a;san.c theatres. was stationed at ~. oa,,,,
,hc stnec. Presently several young wo'"." vonr,
W. At least they were dressed 10 reprS. an. NV
~, nomon They were clad in CANDY eafln'" ,hni,
Ing with really fine so''n ro ",', ncrhaps hall
cie'h' .t.o,, anil they carried fans. lhcy w'r'
a.. ,oot mincing STEPS, an" spoh,
III, voices They were pre'c"'" ~ ,,,;ol
sdueaNs Immigrants carrying CHAIRS on w %,I
dozen s"pln" 60 Il, You could distinguish th'
tn" aa's FROM the actors because the former
plain o naS danced across the stag once OF '"'''