Newspaper clipping of article written by Gunn for The Sunday Courier, describing the Edwards family's 1859 Christmas party. Transcription: the ladies ? predicament, bearing also baggage. They offer him money, he takes it, demanding more. A bell sounds, indicating the advent of Bluebeard, Fatima retires to the divan. Sister Anne disappears. Enter Bluebeard. He admiringly approaches his presumed slumbering wife, kisses and arouses her. A matrimonial embrace. He inquires whether she has obeyed his commands. Rendition of the keys ?THE KEY! Discovery of the result of Female Curiosity. Dreadful res
Newspaper clipping of article written by Gunn for The Sunday Courier, describing the Edwards family's 1859 Christmas party. Transcription: the ladies ? predicament, bearing also baggage. They offer him money, he takes it, demanding more. A bell sounds, indicating the advent of Bluebeard, Fatima retires to the divan. Sister Anne disappears. Enter Bluebeard. He admiringly approaches his presumed slumbering wife, kisses and arouses her. A matrimonial embrace. He inquires whether she has obeyed his commands. Rendition of the keys ?THE KEY! Discovery of the result of Female Curiosity. Dreadful resolve to decapitate Fatima, and tableau. Act 5. Sister Anne and Fatima at back of stage, the former on a step-ladder, looking out afar, by the aid of an opera-grass, the latter on her knees, with disheveled hair and face as white ?literally as white ?as chalk. Enter Bluebeard. The summons to death. Petition for only a few minutes; consultation of watch and assent to it. Bluebeard sharpens his scimitar ?a fearful-looking weapon ?on the floor. Sister Anne waves her handkerchief ?hope in the distance. The tyrant will delay no longer; he seizes the trembling victim by the hair of her head, and makes a terrible circular sweep with his mighty scimitar. Her wig comes off ?hurrah! ?she is saved! Enter Ali, tumultuously. ?ǣMonster, draw and defend yourself! ? Monster does it. Bibbo brings swords sacred to melodrama, and chop! chop! at it they go like Richard and Richmond. Up! down! here! there! chop! chop! Bluebeard is wounded and falls. He fights ferociously on one knee. Hurrah! Again and a little one in! Bluebeard receives a mortal thrust under the arm ?he stiffens up ?he straightens out he died to red fire while the rest form a tableau, the rescued Fatima on the summit of the step-ladder beautifically blessing her deliverers! It was all in dumb show, to music, but a more triumphant success could not have been imagined. Each pantomimist was so marvellously ?ǣup ? in his part, that to
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