Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1904 — A Salvini Incident. [ARTICLE]

A Salvini Incident.

The late Alexander Salvlni was once playing Hamlet In a small Wisconsin town. The theater was the crudest of structures, and the stage had been contrived for the occasion by the simple device of elevating a platform on four posts. When the gravedigging scene was reached a draft of cold air blew up through the aperture In the stage and not only caused the gravediggers’ teeth to chatter, but played freaks with their garments. Salvtnl, entering with Horatio, heard from the grave only a strange jumble of words bitten in pieces by the first clown’s clicking teeth. But when he saw the loose garments of the workmen flapping Jocularly in the breeze the irrelevant sight was too much for him, and laughter checked his speech. He tried to say, “Has this fellow no feeling of his business that be sings at gravemaking?’’ but he had to turn his face away from the audience and laugh, while the gravediggers carried tiie scene along with much fuss of occupation with pick and spade till Hamlet had recovered his gravity.