Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — Somewhat Spoiled the Effect [ARTICLE]

Somewhat Spoiled the Effect

Comparing the stage conveniences of the present day with the makeshifts existing a generation ago, Robert Man tell tells of the Inconveniences of hts early experience as the ghost In "Hamlet” "One night I was playing the part of

the ghost” he says, "and as I was not very certain of myself the stage manager had the lamps turned down unusually low. As a matter of fact they were so low that while I was on the stag% they went out Of course, they had to be lighted again and the manages sent put a stage hand to do it I bad to remain where I was and the ghost’s funeral lines were recited while a man In civilian clothes slowly and painstakingly made his way across the darkened stage, lighting the lamps as he went*