WHAT HE REALLY SEES.
A common and very bit of stage I business consists in the hurling of some characj ter in a drama headlong from a "loftiest bat- . tlement." To effect this the battlement is built near the back of the stage, and ia order to gi^c the
idea that its, say, 3ft of height is in reality reared high up in mid-air, the scene at the back consists of a few housetops very low down, with a great quantity of sky showingabove them. At tho crucial moment over goes the victim, with Hord-curcllipg cry as he falls. The vil-
i lain croucho-5 down upon the battlement watchj ing his victim dropping through space. What he really sees is shown in the second diagram. 'The "-victim," falling lightly upon the soft mat placed ready to receive him, is leisurely making off on his hands and knees, none the worse for being " dashed on to the courtyard stones, hundreds of feet below."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2323, 8 September 1898, Page 61
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162WHAT HE REALLY SEES. Otago Witness, Issue 2323, 8 September 1898, Page 61
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