The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-10

women and cntldrent eAnlDAttHe the HstDa
moving pictures. interspersed with up-to-
date Illustrated songs rendered by yo-
cnlists. It is Mr.. Shepard's intention to
open this house the latter part of this
month. During the past six weeks men
have been Installing hose. extinguishers'
fire appliances, electric alarms and new
exits, all this work being done under the
direction of Sylvester Agens. The safety
of the house had to first meet with the
requirements Of the fire, building and
police departments before Mr.. Shepard
] would sign the lease.
A historic tour of the scenes made ia
mons bv ''The Clansman" will be a feature
of that plays itinerary this year. Manager
George II. Brennan has invited as his
t guests half a dozen students of the recon-
strhction era in the South, who wish TO
verify the historical statements made In
the play. They will visit Columbia, ). G.,
and search the archives Of the negro-car-
p~et-bagger Legislature of 1S67-69: thence TO
the northern part of the State and West
ern North Carolina, where the deeds OF
the Ku Klux Khan will be studied, ana
| finally to Nashville, Tenn, where Is to De
found most of the documentary and oral
evidence regarding the original OF the
Khan.
Robert Mantells production of Ibsen's
Brand" Is now definitely announced for
October, 1908, in New York city. Promise
is made that 1t win be put on the stage in
magnificent fashion, although it is Mr..
Mantelrs intention to make use of the play
In conjunction with his repertoire OF
Shakespeare, which by then will have been
made larger by the revival-of both king
Richard IL" and "Coriolanus," two trag-
edies that will be veritable novelties, In
action, to nearly all theatre-goers in this
country.
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wilton Lackaye's appearance as Jason In
Halls Gaines THE Bondman' will be made
early in September. William A. Brady has
imported for the play the entire "produc-
ton" used in Drury Lane Theatre, Lon
don, last autumn, when, from all accounts,
THE Bondman" was a genuine success.
Miss Grace George resumes. directly on
her return from London. her New YORK
City performances as Cyprienne In "Divor-
cons appearing there, in the Lyceum
Theatre. on August u for a limited en-
gagement before taking up her tour. Sar-
don't play is likely, because of her London
hit as Cyprienne, TO be the feature of her
tour. for the managers of theatres wherein
she is to appear in the various cities are
STIMULATING that 1t shall be the offering,
although in many of these places her en-
gagement was arrange with the under
standirg that she wAuld again appear In
her medium OF last season., OlJtneS, oAS
is to return to London next spring. Begin
ming another engagement there on May(1.
The Chicago run of THE Man of the
Hour will end on Saturday light, Au-
gust 81. when sixteen weeks will have
been rounded out and 16 consecutive per-
formances given. The Broadhurst play
will then have had the longest single run
of any non-musical piece ever given In
that city.
There is reason to suppose that the ter
rible scenes by which initiates into the
ancient Egyptian mysteries were i'm
pressed were some sort of moving pic
lures, although nov they were produced
before the invention of glass lenses can
only be surmised. From the fourteenth
century onward such representations were
almost as common, though not, of course,
SO perfect as they are nowadays. Chaucer
mentions them as the appearances which
kind Of shows which would appeal to the
taste of the period famed for hunting,
hawking and jousting were repre-
scented. AS lenses were known at this
date, these appearances were probably
managed by some kind of crude magic
lantern, although that in its modern form
was not known until long afterward.
Whatever the apparatus was, its use must
have been very widely spread, for such
diverse witnesses as Bonevento Cellini and
Sir John Vaudeville testify to having seen
it's results. The latter has left it on record
that he saw moving pictures at the court
of the Great Khan, in Central Asia.