El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
1.-THE Merchant of Venice" The
stars are supported by very strong

ssThe Merchant of Venice" The
stars are supported by very strong
company.
Sarah Bernhardt has performed
feat that casts many of her more youth
full exploits in the shade. The other
foot and peered at the lake of molten
lava in the crater. She is said to have
lost one of her curls and suffered the
scorching of her eye brows, but she
was enthusiastic over the experience
Dramatic Mirror.
1t has been the general opinion OF
the Ell Paso public that the reason we
do not get the fine scenery of the bet
ter shows displayed on our stage Ia
because the stage is too small to per-
NIT it, but this IL not the. case, for FL
Paso's opera house has the second
largest stage in the state, the lar
gest being only six inches deeper.
Among some of the coming plays
are: "a Contented Woman" which is
now playing in Seattle. BLACK Pat
ii g Troubadours," under the manage
meut of Messrs Voelckle and Nolan.
will be here in the near future, the ex-
act datenot yet sknown. "Tennessee's
Pardner" is booked to be here some
time the latter part OF next month, as
they are now playing in Portland,
Ore.
A giant nineteen years of age and
eight feet tall has recently been intro
duced as q feature in the ballet at the
Follers Bergerers, in Paris. His feet
are thirty two inche long and are
weie bt. BE has to take his own bed
along with him whenever he travels,
and it is such q massive affair that it
takes eight men to lift it.-Exch8nge.
Lulu Tabor, the charming Madge
Briefly of SIN Old Kentucky" had
painful fall and narrow escape from
severe injuries while rehearsing at
McVickers Theatre, Chicago, last
week, the tweuty-fou foot swing across
chasm that her part requires. The
length of the swing has been Increased
for the big production of the play that
is being giveu at McVicker's, it hav-
ing been only. ten feet in the road
production. Miss Tabor made the
leap safely, but as she Landed on the
other side q board slipped and she fell
backward to thesstage. Luckily she
escaped serious injury, but was bruis-
ed severely.-Ex.
A newspaper in a small Massachu-
sets town the other day published the
following editorial: The management
of the opera house should not rent it
to travelling companies carrying girls
in the cast. Nothing ID. known of the
q
ing, and they are quite apt to be gay
girls. Nothing ought to be booked but
UnclesTom's Cabin, male minstrels,
The Little Minister, or The Old Home
stead, without first detailing q cure
fully selected committee to zee the at
fractions in some osher town. If it ap-
pears to the committee that the COM
pany has nothing Objectionable the
opera house should be rented, unless
the date desired comes on Thursday
evening.-Ex.
Some enterprising manager has con-
ceived the idea of Willing away the
tedium of travel by providing vsude-
Vile entertainments on trains running
between the large cities, and it il said
that special cars are now being prepar-
ed to carry out the scheme. About the
same prices will be charged as at the
regular theatres, aud it is expected
that the plan will prove profitable.
This offers a new opening fer vaude-
vile talent, and performers will no
longer feel shy about accepting engage
ments on the Orpheum circuit on &C
count OF the loss of time in going to
and from California. They can book
their passage on the vaudeville train
and make as much as they would If
they we're working in regular
theatre, while at the same time they
are being whirled to their destination.
Versatile performers, or those who
have q large roper DIRE, will be most
in demand, as it would never do to
spring the same acts on the same audi