Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — Applause by Machinery. [ARTICLE]

Applause by Machinery.

The third act climax of the Christmas melodrama fell very flat. “I wish,” said the manager, speaking low in the dead silence of the theater, “that I had some of those clappipg machines like they use in the French and German theaters. “These machines are made of windfilled leather. They are like two flatfish footballs. Bang them together and they make a sound exactly like hand clapping. “They are hidden in different parts of the house, and an electric wire connects them with the Wings. You just touch a button when a climax comes and the theater resounds with machinemade applause.”