The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-26
ADJUSTMENTS.
McLEAN-pREsCoTr.

Tire management of the Crawford has
secured Mclean and Prescott for Tuesday,
March %, in their new play L'Absintheur
They have been at the Broadway in Den
yer during the past week, doing an i'm.
mepse business
The following is a short outline Of the
plot of the play: CASTOR Beauvais, the
son of Partisan banker, is in love with
Pauline de Charmiiles, the daughter OF a
rich count. Silvion Guidel, peasant by
birth. who has been reared in Brittany
and educated for the church, comes to
Paris to be ordained priest. and falls from
grace by falling in love with Pauline de
Cbarmilles, who reriprocates his affection.
They keep their attachment n secret until
Pauline's parents insist on hurrying the
marriage with her finance, CASTOR
Beauvais. Pauline confesses to CASTOR
her love for Guidel and begs him to release
her. He refuses aud stirring scene fol-
lows in which she tells him that she will
break the engagement herself and marry
Guldel
She does not know that Guidel has just
been ordained, but is crushed with this
fact which CASTOR taunts her with, and
he, lashed up to spirit of revenge: de-
nounces her and rejects her before her Ell.
tire family. This blow kills the old count
and maddens the abandoned Pauline, who
leaves her home and disappears without
leaving trace of her whereabouts. The
unhappy CASTOR Beauvais becomes an alb
sintheur. He meets Silviou Guidel in the
Bots while he is under the influence of the
drug, and after an exciting scene murders
him. The murderer then becomes prey
to remorse and Authorizations. He meets
Pauline by accident.
She is starving, and he goads her to
death by telling her that he has killed her
lover. She throws herself into the Seine
and is drowned. Her body is found and
taken TO the morgue. where CASTOR wan
Gers with his friend, Andre Gessonnex, the
artist, who freGuents the place to sketch
the faces of the dead. The body of Silvion
Guidel is also found and taken to the
morgue, where it is identified by his uncle
Pere Vaudron. CASTOR becomes so terri
fed that he confesses to the priest his
crime, and terrific scene ensues He is
left in a room in the morgue, the door of
which accidentally closes upon him, and
he dies alone, locked up in the room with
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
A peculiar accident, laughable in the
extreme, but which might have resulted
seriou sly, took place at the Nashville
Tenn, theatre recently. Mr.. Lewis Morri-
son Was presenting his spectacular produc-
ton of Faust" at the matinee. At diff
ferent points throughout the play Mr..
Morrison has introduced some intricate
electric effects, and in the Broken scene
numerous wires are stretched across the
stage at different angles. In this scene
number Of supernumeraries are used,
several of whom are required to make
large papier mache heads at the top of the
neck; on each of the costumes is large
hook upon which to fasten the head. One
of these ''supers" was crossing the stage
lesurely (he had not as yet donned his
monstrous headgear) when he felt himself
raised off his feet and in a moment was
dangling in mid-air. A wire was being
placed in position, and as it was being
raised had caught tine hook in the back of
''Mr. Super's" costume.
Ia trying to release himself, The naturally
used his hands, and catching hold of the
wire with one hand, stretched forth his
other hand and grasped another wire. Be-
fore he could be reached the electric cur
rent had been turned on from beneath the |
stage, giving him several severe shocks. |
He did not know enough about the princi- |
Piles of electricity to loosen one hand and |
break the circuit. At the same time he |
did not dare to let go and drop twenty feet |
TO the stage below. All he could do WAS
to hang there and yell. Mr.. Morrison's
position in this act is on a high platform,
and having already taken his place, he
yrasped the situation instantly. Drawing
MS sword which las Mephisto) he wears,
De dealt one of the wires a sharp blow,
cutting it IN two and breaking the current.
The man was quickly released from his
elevated position, and was confined to his
bed for some time with nervous prostra-
ion, the result of his somewhat peculiar
accident.