The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1899, Page 2

THE SUNDAY CALL. ° . - P Jhrewdness of the Jact ~ ul Boer Discovered a New MASTES CHRISTHAL = fOR INBAD T "EC TACLE arintended tha rehear stumes and dry goods were of the stage as he wished it to appear in a sfde door and carted away the varlous phases of the production, and ., where a dozen or superintended the preparations for its tegan the work thousand-fold larger production. With his , on a platform of cast-off and d old costumes, horus girls were taken in rles H. Jones, master of the to the costuming #0 of quick-h: of repairing old costumes, altering new own rapld and skiliful brush he painted and asso The stage m the different. c his the “epecials.” ist drew diagrams of ains and drops, and put ,. work to prepare the ones and drew the outlines of the fifteen ‘“‘drops’” that form the staging of the ex- travaganza. His workmen were assigned the task of cutting out the outlines and Grand rpenters \ “flats” or foundations for the Alling in what they had cut away with Rot the “‘gauze” that gives the hazy effect of Mr. King. at, the head of scenery the spectacular. n conferring with Mr. An- The shipwreck scene, beneath the water, ifted and set up & tiny model gnd Cupid's chariot drawn by sea horses ed off Bacteria in Rum n the Torkshops Bebind the HBeenes coming to the ressue of Sinbad—the pal- ace of Binbad, the glittering valley of diamonds, the beautiful panorama four hundred feet long, ending with the arri- val of the “White Squadron,” and the grand ‘“‘transf on scene,” or the change of the geasons, terminating with the icebound ship in the polar winter and the splendor of the “aurora borealls,” all worked gradually into perfection from different depart 14 were holsted with steam appllances to their places the heavens, three storfes above the stage, to be lowered, each in its time and place, to form & part of the production The scenery world of the stage is alo among the timbers, and is presided over by “Cap” Taylor, the manager of the thousands of great ropes, pulleys wheels of the “fly gallery.” Mr. may be sald to * thoroughly Mr. James Cann of the stage, man, went about thunder drum, the big wheel flap which is the source .of the w wind which whistles out from beh scenes and causes to turn up coat collar—the ly Imitates the b against the crags other apparatt nature of the modeling room lery, to his little el und, Mr. Cannor unds. His was t} trreproschable ses- t loose his thun tro eys wera In per m;s} Rémarkabie Magnetic Island [ ;7he oCdtest JIs Jeeth of Paper den The Danish island of Bornholm Baltic Sea, c danger to na measures ek by fourteen about twent from the nearest t of its inf which makes p & matt is f video heve to be v 100 near it.