Life — December 21, 1905 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- formance from which some of our Jeading juvenile actors might learn much in the way of combined eas: and virility, ‘The minor parts in the large cast, both male and female, were excellently filled, and the stage management was notably and unusually good, In one particular the latter was highly artistic. On our stage it is customary, when the grouping on the stage makes an effective picture, for every one engaged to hold it by remaining absolutely still, until the effect. sinks into the understanding of the dullest person in the audience. Here there cture transforming easily one. were none of those unnatural pauses, each pi and without apparent effort into the succeedin It may be that this is in fact Mme. Bernhard; America. If the other plays in her large repertoire are as well pre- sented as ** La Sorciére,” this is not only the last opportunity to see her here, but it is an opportunity to see her before her powers have faded, and to see them displayed in a better setting than any she has ever had in America. * * * 's final tour in FIRE recently broke out in the Grand Opera House, but fortunately at an hour when the theatre was not in use. In a report of Fire Chief Begin in charge, printed in the New York World, he says: “On reviewing the facts of this fire, it seems a fair con- clusion that the improvements secured by the committce prevented aslight fire (rom developing into a serious one."” The fire started in scenery on the Twenty-fourth Street side of the stage, near the proscenium wall. The fire burned upward through the fly gallery floor, but did not spread be- yond this nor ina lateral direction more than fifteen feet. That the fire was $0 confined was undoubtedly due, in Chief Beggin’s opinion, tothe h were in automatic sprinklers w stalled over the stage through the efforts of the committee. Although firemen did not enter the auditorium least a half hour after the re had started, the asbestos tain which was dropped and which the committee had caused to be run in metal grooves, making a tighi joint with the proscenium arch, had prevented any but a slight amount of smoke from entering it. The automatic sky! were placed over the stage on the ghts which recommendation of the committee, and which opened by releasing a single rope attached at the stage level, proved successful in operation, Until these had been opened the smoke on the stage was so dense that the fire- men could not locate the fire. The committee mentioned is the one made up of heads of differ- ent city departments and ap- pointed just after the murderous Iroquois fire in Chicago had roused public indignation, The committee seems to have done admirable work in the case of the Grand Opera House, and Lire sincerely hopes they have done equally well in the other theatres in New York. A de- tailed report of what they have accomplished would make inter- esting reading for theatre-goers, MME, BERNHARDT 1 The public cannot be kept too well informed about the safety of the play-houses it is iavited to patronize, freancoy 779 Metea. SONFIDENTIAL GUIDE J teademy of Music amusing spectacle. Bijou.—" The Music Master.”” admirable character: ; The Earl and the Girl.” cast. Well staged and amusing. Fietds's.—Peter Dailey in abilities wasted in a mediocre musical comedy. Casino. — Garr) especially passionate —"Babes in Toyland.” Victor Herbert's music and Sil of the Golden West,” ad a well selected company in an interesting play of life in eorge in except to those who are passionately fond of the ks of Mrs. Humphry Ward. “LA SORCIERE. LTFE'S. y David Relasco, introducing Clever comedy, with David Warfield’s English musical play, with American he Press Agent." Mr. Dailey’s fun-making Phe Marriage of William Ashe." Not Hippodrome.—*A Society Notice later. Lyric.—Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in repertoire. See opposite Mar Henry EB. Dixey, Carlotta Nillson and others t but amusing comedy, * The Man on the Box.” Manhattan.—"Belore and After.” Margaret Anglin i Well acted and well staged dramatic version of VV Collins's The New Magdalen, Proctor's Fifth Avenue. — Stock company in weekly change of bill. Weber's 's Theatre.—" The Prince Chap.” Unassuming but attractive little serio-comedy pleasantly done. As no representative of LIFE ts permitted to enter the theatres in the following list, they are not included in the Guide, As a re- sult of this exclusion, twenty- Jour managers have been arrested on a charge of criminal conspir- acy and are now at large on bail, fending action by the criminal courts, DALY'S, HUDSON. LYCEUM, EMPIRE, LIBERTY. MAJESTIC, GARDEN, WALLACK’S, SAVOY, KNICKERBOCKER. NEW AMSTERDAM, No Help for It. HE CLERGYMAN : Do you mean to say that your wife goes tochurch every Sunday without you? “Well, it isn't my fault. I can’t persuade her to stay at home."” GOOD listener is often loved for the brains he lacks, a HE difference between repartee and insult de- pends on whether you or the other man makes the re- mark. comicbooks.com