PREVENTING A PANIC.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1170, 1 August 1884, Page 3

PREVENTING A PANIC.

One of the most experienced thea* tvical managers in England relates an incident connected with his career, the j particulars of which may possibly serve a useful purpose. One evening in 1872, during the pantoniine of “ The Children in the Wood,” when the house was crowded from door to ceiling, he was seated in the the propri tor and the manager of one of the Birmingham theatres, watching the development of an elaborate transformation scene called the ‘‘Nativity of Venus,.” and in which some eighty w omen and children were suspended, many of them at a great height from the boards, Suddenly a sharp report was heard, followed hy a scream in the wings, which was quickly taken up by the children. Knowing from experience that the report was duo merely to the explosion of a lime candle, Mr fk-w round the box lobby to the private door dashing on to the stage beheld the white faces of the audience, who - had risen en masse, and were making a noise which ho compared to the roaring of the sea. Endeavoring to calm the excited people hy holding up one hand, he with the other motioned “ be still ” 10 a girl who was unstrapping herself from her iron support, evidently with the intention of jumping a distance of üboin- twenty feet. Finding he could not obtain a hearing, Mr carelessly stuck his hands in his trousers’ pockets and smiled. Partly reassured hy the managers attitude, the audience waited to hear what he had to say, on which he said : “ There is no danger a limit caudle only has explode.!, and alarmed some of the children, who have affected the others with terror "Go on with the music.” A rush for the doors had been begun, but the whole affair only occupied a few seconds, and by his coolness and promptitude ho doubtless prevented a very serious panic. Goal head at such a time is worth a hundred excited in dividuala who, under cover of rushing off for the fire engines, take precious good care to save their own bones.

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