Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — Real Tragedy of the Stage. [ARTICLE]

Real Tragedy of the Stage.

A beautiful actress, Fraulein Darmer, was killed by accident recently, while playing at the Theater of Varieties at Berne, Switzerland. The last act of the comedy, “The Pride of the Third Company,” was coming to an end when Fraulein Danner fell through a defective Btage trap to a distance of six feet and fractured her skull, The actress was carried unconscious to her room anda doctor was in prompt attendance, but the case was beyond his help, and as the curtain fell on the comedy on the stage the girl died. Neither the membenrof the company who took the final “call" nor the public, who .wondered why the actress did not appear, had the slightest idea of the tragedy that had occurred behind the scenes.