The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-12
Death-Defying Carlotta.

Death-Defy1ng Carlotta.
To.morrow night tho Academy will
have u most unusual attraction u sens,l-
ton which, will thrill every spccLator to
the heart--Cnrlotta. in her wonderful
loop the-loop act The act is said to be
one of the most hazardous ever done
on or OF the stage 1t Will be the climax
to an entertainment new in style to
Richmond but promiseful Of excitement.
Tho New York Commercial printed the
following about carlotta:
There Is n little lady in Proctor's
Theatre called "Carlottn, tho Marvel.
who gives her audience q shock twice
day with what the programme IS pleased
to call her "dcath-defying plunge on
bicyclen The act Is nothing more nor
less than a loop-thc-loop performance,
but performed by woman--hnd that
woman young and nttractire-an added
interest Is attached to the perlous and
foolhurdy ride. We have had acts OF
this kind In many varieties during the
Last few years: four riders have been
killed, and others manned for life but SO
long as the public Graves scnsationalsm
OF this kind there will be performers
found willing to take the risk
This new sensation plunger has an un-
usually pleasing personality. Half French.
half American, she Is curious mixture
OF tho two races; upon the beauty of
the American has been engrafted tho
charm OF manner of her Gallo other
half. Her slim body is az straight as
an arrow, her muscles are hard and firm
her hands and feet small for one so tall
(she stands five feet nine IN her stocking
feeD. or nerves. she has none. Her
eyes look straight into yours when she
;aks to YOU and she has something to
say. too, and when she speaks about
co1f Go FIN M
gether delightfully."- modest little chapter
she gives you. She tells you how she
began riding In public when child OF
four, and how she has kept on learning
new tricks and novel poses ever since.
She laughs at her successes here and
across the water, and naively adds that
"A It is all very well TO be a success. but
that she needs lots OF money and-well-6
q new trick and a perilous one must be
added to bring UP the weekly stipend
to more than that of an ordinary head
liner. FL
..snd-thnt is why I have added this
loop-the-loop TO my other work." she
added. Because 1t is a money-makerg'
She leads you to the dreadful loop and
tells you that her manager Is the ono who
built the first one In the world three
years ago. and that since then he has
erected fourteen. She explains to you
the mathematical principles upon which
1t is built, and shows you the little
banks" ut the entrance and the exit
OF the dreaded circle. She asks you 10
lift her wheel, made OF heavy iron bars,
and weighing ninety pounds, and point
ing to the. straight and narrow way that
leads 10 the flies above. tells you that she
rides down that eighteen-inch plank at
the rate of sixty miles an hour.
And then she looks at you and smiles
and Won wonder how fhio
young woman, with her allurng face
and modest demeanor. could ever wish
TO climb up TO that fearful place and
rush down to certain
But you remember the Saturday night
envelope and you shut your eyes to tho
danger and wish almost that YOU we're
young and handsome and daring and all
the rest Of It. I
"A Madcap Princess"
at the Academy Tuesday, matinee and
night. Claxton Wilstach will present his
new star, but already a favorlte to the
pubic, Sophie Brandt, In the comic opera
success "A Aladcap Princess" for the
libretto and music Of which Harry p.
Smith and Ludwig Engander are re-
spectively responsible.
This is an operate rendering of the
, romance OF Princess Mary Tudor's clone
ss''N'A' "'eH ~t'h''co ioIdIluOU, inc three
acts OF the opera show SUCCESSFULLY a
part OF the historic retreat of the Eng
lish royalty, Windsor Park. on May-Day.
when Mary meets Brandon, tho uncourt-
~ courticr, whose nonchalance has such
strange fascination for her-an apart
n;ent In Windsor Castle, when Mary dis
guises herselfGns a page boy in order
to escape with Brandon to the coast and
thence by ship to the Eldorado over the
sea, and incidentally to foil her broth
er's attempt to give her in marriage to
the decrepit King Of Franco-and the
quaint old Bristol inn, where the runa-
ways are overtaken by the irate Henry,
accompanied by a body Of retaners. The
stage settings have been carefully de-
vscd, with the result that theftrnditlonnl
splendor of the eighth Henry's court
Is said TO be effectively reproduced.
To all acquainted with the character
of Sophie Brandt's work, the role of the
yivaclous, unconventional. madcap prn-
cess would appear to- afford her every
opportunity Of registering another sTtistIc
triumph. Her portrayal Is said to nave
evoked generous enthusiasm wherever
she has appeared, and her visit to this
city will certainly be awaited with pleas
'urable interest,
Miss Brandt will be supported by a