The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
FLAMES DESTROY
 CASINO THEATRE Chorus Girls Have Narrow Es- cape from Death REHEARSAL IN PROGRESS One Girl Falls Down Stairs and Is Injured, and Stage Carpenter
 Is Overcome By
 Smoke.

theatre one of the most historic of the New York play houses and the scene of the production of many famous light operas. was damaged by fire today with a loss of $50,0OO.
 The blaze began about noon in dress ing room on the third floor over the stage while a rehearsal of the corus girls of the Lady Teaze" company was in prog ress. Though they were thrown into a panic. the members of the company es- capped uninjured with the exception of enc chorus girl who fell while going down the stairs of the stage entrance and was painfully but not dangerously hurt.
 There were no spectators in the the atre when the fire broke out. Two hours later the building would have been occu ried by an audience composed principally of women an children. As it was the chorus girls had some difficulty in es- caping the hurried advance of the flames. The exit of an audience under similar conditions would have been hampered by the fact that t.4e main entrance is a winding staircase.
 In Heart of Theatrical District.
 The Casino is located at the corner cf Thirty-ninth street and Broadway in the very heart of the theatre and hotel district, and no sooner was the fire under way with burst of blaze and smoke from the third story windows than a tremendous throng gathered in Broad way for blocks in both directions, stalling all traffic and hampering the efforts of tho firemen.
 In the Casino some of the most noted of light opera productions have beel presented and achieved their first and greatest successes. Erminie mad It's begin hing and initial success there with an all. star cast including Francis Wilson, Mark Smith, Pauline Hall and Marie Janse and ran for two years. It has been closely Identified with the successes of many of the stars whose names are now familiar to the patrons of light opera The house was built by Rudolph Aronson.
 '"The Lady Teazle'' company, which was rehearsing when the fire broke out is headed by Lillian Russell, but she was not in the theatre at the time. About forty chorus girls were rehearsing in cos tune and were crowding up a narrow stair way to a dressing room on the third floor above the stage when a burst of flame and smoke from the dressing room drove them back. In their frantic haste one girl was thrown down and had to be car ried out of the theatre. She was not badly hurt. So swift was the advance of the flames among the fimsy material in the scenery that the chorus girls were in a panic when they rushed from the stage exit. Ignoring the efforts of the stage manager to calm them they ran shrieking down the stairs arrayed In the gay cos tunes of the play and were given shelter in the nearby stores.
 Stage Carpenter Overcome. < A stage carpenter, who fingered too long in an effort to save some of the scenery was overcome by the smoke but revived on reaching the street.
 Four alarms of fire brought an abun- dance of apparatus but the stage and up- per balconies were blazing fiercely when it arrived and thousands of spectators poured into Broadway blocking all traffic and even the approach of the firemen.
 This caused much delay in getting the apparatus at work, Once fairly at work the interior of the building was soon de- luged with water with the result that a good portion of the main floor escaped absolute destruction, though very badly damaged. The stage and balconies were burned out and portion of the roof destroyed Some of the scenery of Lady Teazle was saved.
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