Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-16


 in sunrises and in sunsets, for the produc ton of moonlight and to simulate the lightnirS flash. The transformation scenes in spectacular productions will be, by their use in n thousand and one ways, glimpses of fairyland, the dazzling bril- liancy and beauty of which we can now scarcely form n picture.
 Imagine in this glow of artificial sun light the divine Patti making her positive ly farewell appearance!
 have spoken of the automatic ticket bar which will supplant the human ticket taker It might be we'll to explain that device a little moro in detail because of its radical departure from present methods.
 Instead of a box office, we have bureau of exchange in the lobby, where bank notes may be exchanged for silver, if we are not on silver basis by that time A man desiring to enter the parquet will drop the necessary price of admission in coin into n slot machine. On tho top of this machine will be arranged a keyboard, showing every seat in the house, and the piece of money will be dropped into the slot in front of the seat desired. This will release the tickets and at the same time cause turnstilc tu swing open to admit the buyer, and the stile will register auto matically the amount that has been de- 
 hand on a dial over his desk of the location of the seat and how much has been paid for it. This will apply to the parquet circle, the two balconies and the four gal leries, And tho house is kept constantly counted up."
 Tho samo contrivanco will bo used to detect the wrong seating of persons, either through mistake or deception. The slot machine delivers tickets after payment has been made in tho exact order in which they appear on the diagram. The unsold seats will be charged with a strong cleo trical current, so that if any one gets into the auditorium by subterfugc it will he impossible to occupy the seat until the necessary amount has been dropped into the slot machine. This immediately shuts off the current, and the chair is in n con dition to be occupied.
 Managers will probably esteem this as one of the most useful and necessary at- tachmentS in the house, and ushers will despise it corrcspondingly.
 It is altogether likely that tho theHter of the twentieth century will bo visited by ladies who will wear garlands on their , hair instead of big hats. X federal law, in addition to the state laws, will bo in oper- ation forbidding not only the wearing of the GainsbOrough, but also the sale of it, l ana IullllncrS who Ouenu VIII De seDtcDceu to pay Q heavy fine and to maintain Abso- lute silence for one year. This will effec- l tually put an end to the big hat habit. The puff sleeve will not disappear until some years after tho stage hiding hat has gone, and ie may be that laws will bo en- acted for its abolishment also. It would be a fatal error, however, to mako any serious prUgnostiCations in that direction.
 As to tha character of the plays which | will be presented in the year 1850 or there abouts, they will not differ markedly then from now. except in the alteration that must necessarily follow the introduction of the improved and enlarged mechanical equipment already cited. Virtue will usu ally triumph over vice: dramatic stars will break away from their cancellations and start of on orbits of their own; critics will disagrec diametrically on the merits of new productions; playwrightS will con- tinue to be accused of plagiarism. WI will in all probability have more of what is known as realism, swifter action vii be demanded, and the increased nervous energy of the people will demand change: that must bc kalcidoscOpic.
 It will be in the mechanical equipmon and in its general structural characte that the theater of the future will difTe from the theater of tho present in ever.