The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-06
THEATERs

Al the Grand Tonight.


This city is to have some notable
visitors on Friday night May 9Th at
the Grand opera house. Admiral
Dewey, Rear Admiral Schley and Sec
rotary of the Navy Meyer, with the
cadets of West Point. the Midship-
men of Annapolis. the famous trick
cavalry of Ft. Myer, and ten thousand
soldiers including the colored regiment
that led the charge at San Juan, with
Col. Theodore Roosevelt will present
| Lyman II. Howe's remarkable spec
tacle in moving photography,-"The
lU. S. War Game" The spectacular
features of the service are so repro
duced with sound that the Sherman
estimate of human lighting is realiz-
ed without any of the nerve rackinS
and dangerous circumstances. To pro-
duce the multiple of infantry fire, the
roaring of cannon, the explosion OF
| land mines, the rumbling of army
wagons and horses in action, the dy-
lnamiting of bridges, the hurting or
giant projectiles by the biggest guns
against the strongest armor plate.
and other parts of the din of war, is
probably the most difficult feat of
stage realism to date. The theatre
(sensitive to sound because of its con-
Istruction) does not permit the use of
articles creating the original effects
Mechanisms must be found by cx-
perimenting that will present natural
sounds so tempered that the spectator
wonders and is pleased. The point at
which the audience = thrilled but not
offended bs, for instance, the sound
effect of the impact of the huge
shells on armor plate, Is a matter of
the keenest judgment The photo
graphers. standing fifty feet from
the plate. had to stun their ears with
cotton to prevent the drums" of that
part of their bodies from bursting
The sound was terrific.
The Howe imitators have so dimin-
ished il that the effect is no less
realistic but needs no such protec-
tion. The property boy says the
property list."-things for use on the
stage-that the Howe entertainment
requires him to obtain is the largest
and most difficult to get since he has
been at the theatre.
Arthur Deming, that irresponsible
and Irresistible peer of minstresy,
brought across the big hand and the
large laugh at the Orpheum yestcr-
day. To be funnier than Mr.. Deming
would be dangerous, for right now
the minstrel king with his inimtably
odd mannerisms and endless fund of
fun touches the limit of risability. He
keeps handing the new gaff across
so rapidly that the best you can do
is to catch as catch can" and take
the rest home with you to laugh over
there. If you can't laugh at Dem
ing you had better see a doctor and
find out what ails you.
The LAMBERT Trio does some classy
instrumental stunts, the miniature
LAMBERT being especially talented.
Holland and Letelle sing and talk
| fun-wise, and do both exceedingly
we'll They have their audience with
them from the start and finish In a
whirl Beano. the novelty gymnast,
does undreamable stunts with box.
Marion, bringing up sad rear In
| the list of second-class cities on the
| sun Murray circuit at the beginning
of the season. now stands fourth OH
list OF seven. Mansfield Newark
and GAINESVILLE have been distanced.
Canton. Portsmouth and Lima have
| IN ha nagsad hefore Marion leads