The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-05
St. Louis. No. june ,.


bear the names of Creation" ana
Hereafter one purports 10 illustrate
the placing of man on earth and the
other where he-goes TO on leaving us.
creation" gives also q practical exhi-
htion OF earthly evil of the present
era. for you can set drunk if you stay
long and swallow hard. The theatre is
az The front of au extraordinary c0n-
stfuctlon OF lakes bOrdered by moving
SIDEWALKS and aICoVcs iu which thirst
may be Stacked, but not with water. At
tHese drinking places you may step out
or your boat or Off the sidewalk. your
tlp ticket has st0poYer privileges
WIN no time limit. The management is
upefai about that and hopes thai you
Wiil be The same iu buying beverages.
! don know what would be the treat
ment Of man who brought along a
fack of whisky in mis- pocket or key
ol bceT under his arm Theatres. to
enter which y0r nave To pass alongside
of cafes, are NOT uncommon. Here
you go through the theatre 20 get 90
che cafes. But you are liberty to turn
about after seeing the show and SO
avoid the temptation 10 bibllous I'M
diligence.
The show is a Biblical panorama. but
not merely that. for IL is also an OBJ
jet lesson in stageCraft Charles
Fechter the German actor who gained
fame here in broken English, had am
idea rhat by topping a stage with half
a dome the open half toward the audi
t0rium very realistic skies might be
produced. He convinced some wealthy
men that he was right and they pro-
Vlded the money for MIN To make the
experiment. He rebuilt a New York
theatre from the fG0tlishts TO the rear
wall very eNpensiFeiy, because his plan
involved not only the hosting of the
dome slOft when il was not iu use but
also much of the scenery. So he built
the tOWer-li1e structure over the rear
portion Of what IS now the Fourteenth
street theatre. FeChter's mechanical
ingenuity didn't come 70 anything that
prOHted him or his hackers, yet his sys-
tenn or handling scenery came into use
afterWard and now his dome is utii-
lied to make the Creation panorama
"a remarkable spectacle. BY means OF
"a moving picture machine, all sorts Of
atmospheric phenomena are thrown
upon that COveX surface in a closer inn
itdtiOn Of nature than I have ever seen
elsewhere. some adaptation of the
principle would be practicable in dra-
matte productions.
Gods creative week. as recorded I'M
Genesis. is here shown day by day. The
irst view Is a chaos of forIlIess mat
ter ia molten turbulence. Slowly i'm
the -dimuess we see water and land
separating from each other. the former
steaming from fire underneath and the
latter upheaved i'm .belchiug volcanoes
Arabic shores appear. first with scant
vegetation and gradually with herbal
gT0Wths till forest come into view The
Illusions are perfect. They are pro
duced by introducing sections of seem
IA Hr go .aHrl
call set pieces. and they are finely
painted and iugeuiously illumined- The
next. progress is the making OF the sun
TO rule by day and the moon 10 rule
by night The sun IS the more novel
and artistic representation IT'S diff
fusiye light reveals the landscape be-
fore the orb itself shines through and
dispels the clouds. The moon makes
more ordinary entrance it rises from
behind am eEpause of water, on the rip
ping surface of which it glimmers. just
as ft has iu thousand plays. But the
spectators prefer their old theatre ace
Quamtance, the moon, 90 the much 7u-
perior stranger, the sun, and applaud
her Vigorously
After five DAYS developments have
been illustrated, the creation of human
ity is omitted. The artist has not pre-
sumed 10 picture how God made man
iu his own image. nor even the eVolE-
tiuu of woman from the man rio. We
see Adam and Eve first Bon the Garden
OF Eden 4 hos and a girl impersouate
them iu a small size t0 10 the environ
meut. and they must have eaten al
ready of the fruit Of the tree of hnoWl-
edge. as their nudity is modified with
fe leaves Divine rest 0u the seventh
day IS aIleEorically represented ana
.arfshiv. too And it is therein made
TO .appear that not Edison. but the cree
ator. invented incaudesCeut electric
bulbs
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