The daily sentinel., 1908-02-19

Death, the grim monster so out
of place in merry playhouse.
stalked behind the scenes. and, just
as Hal Newton Carlyle, the veteran
actor playing the part of Hon. Sam
uel Grayson, the old guardian, in
Paul Gilmore's play, "The Wheel of
Love-" started to step upon the stage
in answer to his expected cue, the
Dark Messenger from the world un-
known laid his pallid hand upon the
old mans shoulder and gave to him
the last cue the actor ever receives
the cue that bids him to enter up
on the portrayal of never-dying
character on the stage of the Thea
ter of Eternity. 1t was just as Paul
Gilmore, as Jack Hartley, and Will
ard Louis, as GriZ, the cowboy, were
entertaining the great audience with
some of their brightest and most hui
morous lines that Carlyle fell to the
floor while in the act of stepping into
the glare of the footlights.
Mr.. Gilmore. unnoticed by the au-
dience, received a whispered message
from one of the members of the COM
pany standing behind wing to the
effect that Carlyle was stricken I'LL
and could not answer his cue. The
brilliant young actor grasped the sit
uation Immediately and very admira-
bly, and cunningly closed the act
without badly breaking the course of
the performance. He simply said to
Griz, Come into my private office,
want to talk to you" Griz fol-
lowed him. The curtain then was
dropped, and the audience thought
it was an odd but regular termina-
ton of that act. The manager of
the company then stepped before the
footlights and stated that member
of the company had tainted, but
would soon recover and the perform
ance would proceed. He requested
that III there was a physician present
he should come to the stage. DR..
A. p. Hubbard OF Collins & Hubbard
went forward. DR.. Hubbard found
that Mr.. Carlyle had suffered from
a fatal attack of heart trouble. He
was unconscious and pulseless when
the physician reached his side. DR.
Hubbard administered two powerful
injections of nitroglycerine, but they
were ineffective. The old actor was
beyond the reach of human aid. He
died within six minutes after he fell.
Naturally the members of the
company, Including Mr.. Gilmore.
were terribly shocked by the sad oc
currence. Carlyle was the Oldest
member of the company and was be-
loved by all the men and women
with whom he had been associated so
closely for many months. However.
Mr.. Gilmore realized that it would
be best to proceed with the play. He
called the members of his company
around him and expressed the deep
thA Of hnf-
comrade: but he said that he be-
lieved that it would be best to pro-
ceed with the play as the audience
was in ignorance of the death. There
could be no disrespect to the dead by
completing the performance. He
then urged the company to meet the
emergency bravely, to show as lit
tie as possible the effects of the ter
rife shock received. All the mem
bers expressed Willingness to pro-
coed.
The manager of the company then
appeared before the footlights, an
nounced that the actor who was sick
would be unable to proceed but that
a substitute would be provided and
the performance would proceed
The curtain then arose and the
second act proceeded. The power of
an actor or an actress to hide the
true emotions of his or her heart
from the audience while delineating
the roles that are sharp contrast
to the real feelings of the actor or
actress was never more clearly dem
onstrated than last night. Little did
the audience dream that, as Paul
Gilmore. Griz and the others ideally
portrayed their roles, nearly all of
which were of light and merry
vein during the latter half of the
performance. the spirit and presence
of death was hanging over that
stage and thar each actor and actress
was possessed with a feeling of sor-
row and sadness.
]. X. Applebee. whose regular role
was that of Arthur Gimmerdale. the
Englishman, substituted for the dead
man in the role of the old guardian,
and, although he was not thorough
ly familiar with the part. he did ad-
mirably we'll under the trying cir
cumstances, and the performance
moved very smoothly. Each and every
member OF the company deserves the
highest oommendation OF his or her
work under those trying circumstan-
ces. Not a one faltered even as they
had the awfulness of the situation
thrust 80 forcibly upon them as each
addressed the man who was under
studying the role OF one who had