The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-22
WHEN DEATH IS REAL.
Tragic Fatalities that Have Occurred
Upon the Stage.

The recent calamity ON a London
stage in which an actor actually killed
a fellow player in the scene where he
was supposed to run him through With a
dagger has brought TO light numerous
former occurrences OF a similar charac
ter.
The great Roman actor Roseius. en-.
acting Aureus, was so carried away
that he fell upon slave and killed him
on the spot. Farquhar. in Dryden's
Indian Emperor" wounded a fellow
actor so dangerously that he was said
to have died from his wounds. In
Stockholm. early in the sixteenth cen
fury, an actor who was playing Lon
ginus in The Mystery Of the Passion"
was so realistic in his playing that he
pierced the mimic Christ so severely
that his death on the cross was actual
Many years ago. an Italian artist nam
ed LOMBARD. playing in "Antigone,"
had to turn his sword from his fathers
breast to his own, and did 1t SO Ger.
tainly that he fell dead.
Upon the opening night of the pro-
duction of Michael Strogoff'' In Lon
don, in 1881, Mr.. Charles Warner, in
the title role, was set upon by the viii
lain of the piece. and in the duel with
daggers which ensued Mr.. Warner was
badly wounded. Barry sullivan once
attacked Richmond In "Richard the
/ Third" with such vehemence that his
4 opponents sword was struck from his
/ hand and serious accident barely
averted. The elder Baron. French
actor of note, performing in THE Cid"
Of Corneille, had to kick a sword out
Of his path and in so doing punetured
/ his foot; the matter was trifling ut first,
but later on gangrene set in and the
player died. Charles Kemble, at one
time playing Macbeth to Mrs. Siddon's
Lady Macbeth, flung away goblet
with such violence that it shattered a
chandelier above the great Sarah's
head. That lady bore 1t without finch
ing, however. At the dress rehearsal
of 'The Huguenots" at Paris several
years ago, the famous tenor Nouritt, in
pretending to jump from a fourth-story
window, injured himself so that the
piece had to be delayed for week. AT
the final rehearsal of Faust" the orig
lnal Mephistopheles, Balanque, contriv-
ed to wear pair of dlabolical red
wings. With these outspread, he rose
from a trap in the first act, and, by
fnnnlin0 n thnGn la M
the conventional cloak. But the spring
behaved badly, and the actors face was
horribly lacerated by the futterlng
whalebone ribs, over which the cloth
was arranged
Deaths from sudden and unknown
causes are frequent on the stage, and II
has generally seemed that the passing
of the actors soul has always been al
some moment when his words were
particularly applicable to. the circum
stance. Not long ago Federico was
playing Faust" in Melbourne, and JUS
after he uttered the last word before his
descent to Hades he gave sigh an6
fell dead. At this actors funeral, al
the venerable clergyman finished say
ing 'In the midst of life we are II
DEATH" he fell lifeless. Paterson dice
while preparing Claudio for execution
in Measure for Measure" saying Of
life "a breath thou art" Cummings
as Dumont in "Jane Shore" expired
with q quotation for Gods mercy OF
his lips, and Palmer, as manager ant
actor, died as he exclaimed, "Oh, God
Godl There is another and a bette
worldv'