The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-16

ment.
After an exciting day for the Italians
| Mr.. Crawford gave up the fight"
PLAYS ABOUT DREYFUS.
The Westminster Gazette says: "The
continental playwright is making a good
| thing of the lola trial. In Zurich the
people have been worked TO such pitch
of excitement by play entitled Captain
Dreyfus, that the police. finding their
popularity seriously threatened by the
representation of a more than usually
villainous informer who works the ruin
| of Dreyfus, interposed and obliged the
author to cut certain passages in his play.
In Amsterdam piece called The Process
Zola is having a most successful run at
the ParkShoWburg theater, while in yet
another theater in the same city 'Drey
fus the Martyr is drawing immense
immense crowds. Such plays are another
proof of the universal popular interest
which has been reused in the fate of the
prisoner of the DEVILS Island and the
adventures of his champion, NJ. Zola.'
SOME REAL STAGE TRAGEDIES.
Innumerable instances are recorded of
death on the stage from apoplexy, syn
cope, heart disease, and other natural
causes; but if to the actors and actresses
who have thus died in harness we add
those who have been killed and wounded
from agents other than fire, falling down
scene docks, etc, the list would be a
long one. In fact, murder, premeditated
and otherwise. has several times been per-
was witnessed in Sweden in the year 1913,
during a performance of the Passion
Play" One of the actors had to pierce
the side of the principal character in the
crucitiXion scene, but instead of thrust
ing his sword into a bladder tied to the
side, he plunged the weapon into the
body with fatal results. The dead man
fell from the cross upon the impersonatcr
of the Virgin Mary, who was fatally in
jured; and the brother of the slain actor
who had Immediately afterwards cut
down the assassin was himself hanged
for his summary act of vengence. So this
tragedy was concluded with four true
not counterfeit deaths; fitting retribu-
ton. as Puritan tract entitled THE
Theater of Gods Judgment" published in
ling of heavenly matters"
In 1850 a disastrous and, as it was after
wards discovered, intentional smash oc-
CURED during a representation of the
pantomine, "Dr. Faustus,'' at the Lin
coins Inn Fields Theater. A scene-shifter,
who had a quarrel with a super whose
duty it was to be hoisted to the flies,
dressed as Pierrot, by means of ma
chine, deliberately let go of the mechan-
ism, with the result that the poor fellow
was hurled headlong down with such fore
was hurled headlong down with such
force as to be killed outright.
In November, $780, Madame Linsky, at
a performance at Armstadt, in the pres
ence of the royal family, was fired at by
six soldiers who were instructed to bite
off the bullet when biting the cartridge,
but which one omitted to do. For a mo-
ment the actress remained standing. but
almost Immediately sank down, exclaim-
ing, 81 am shot" She died within few
hours. A very similar incident had oc-
CURED in Dublin half dozen years
earlier, where a juggler had to catch a
ball, fired from a pistol, between his
teeth. A gentleman in the audience had
the wrong pistol handed to him. and when
he fired a real bullet crashed through the
head fthe unfortunate actor. There
have, in fact. been many accidents of this
nature to music-halI artists. Only two
years ago a lady performer attired in a
bullet-prOof cuirass, was seriously wound
ed by rife bullet, which the cuirass was
supposed to resist.
In 1859, while Blackstone was touring in
the United States with a mixed English
American company. his engagement at
Mobile was marked by a terrible affair.
The play was My Old Woman in which
a Mr.. Ewing acted the part of Cardinal
Hamblin, who was performing Victor, the
page in the same piece, went into the
dressing-room. and stabbed the young
man in the heart. A singular circum-
stance in connection with this occurrence
was that the murderess was acquitted by
a jury, who were charged that he might
have died from a disease of the heart,
with which ne was afflicted, If he had not
been stabbed
Mr.. Lambert, a well-knovn actor IN
"old man" parts died at Wells, Norfolk,
in 1875, from the effects OF a curious ac-
Cident which had befallen him at the
Theater Royal. Melbourne, in 1872 He
was playing the part of miser in
drama called "Fazio," and had placed in
his doublet. for concealment. q bag Of
property gold nuggets, just over the
heart. a fellow-actor came UP TO him,
and jokingly dealt him a blow or the
pebbles. driving them right on 70 the
heart. Lambert tainted from the pain,
and contracting heart disease from this
cause. died three years later.
In 1876. Miss Mabel Hall-reaI name FL
Iott-a member OF the ballet Of the
Theater Comique. St Louis. was shot
dead on the stage by a super named
Moore. whose attentions had been re-
jected. The murderer subsequently, shot
himself. In ISIS. in the midst Of a play
in China theater in Yolo. California Two
actors. armed with knives. struggled on
the stage. while the spectators yelled and
stamped their approval % the realism q
the combat At last a stream OF blood
ran down 70 the footlighis. and one q
the combatants fen back dead The fgat
lad been genuine. the actors having
ousrreiled about 4 woman who played IN
the same piece
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