Around The World In 80 Days

A man of wealth named Phineas Fogg laid a wager of L50,000 in a London club house tliat he would travel round the world in eighty days. He made the trip and won his wager. Jules Verne recites the story in his novel of "Around the World in Eighty Days," the title of the play that is to be given soon in Ann Arbor. The scènes and incidents through which Mr. Fogg passes are all depicted in the drama, which gives abundant opportunity for spectacular effect, with National dances and Amazonian marches. This play will be given in Ann Arbor next week Friday night. The Norfolk Virginian says: "Around the World in Eighty Days is the wild vagariesof anenthusiast, britnful of the most intense imagination, regardless of time, place or action, but all blended together like a fairy enchantment, now here, now there, now everywhere and there, too, make up a gloriou8 compound of fun, brimful o] excitement, from the oriënt to the dent, between the antipodes, blossoms one minute in tropics and frigid scènes, next in the arctic, with a kind of moonlight as a novel accompaniment. The spectacles are gotten up in the most superb oriental style, and with an exhilarating ballet of lovely women in intricate marches and moyements. The whole piece is a conception of the renowned Kiralfy'e, with the help of Gustave Dore in the magnificent scenery, painted by artists of the flrst order of merit and ability. The company consists of forty people, the costumes are superb and costly, and all the appointments go to make it one of the grandest spectacular dramas ever placed upon any stage. The plot of the play is something like a crazy quilt combina tion, very little regard for continuity kut in every sense primful of attractioi and fun for the millions. It is a kim of display seen only once in a lifetime and calculated to pïease all who witnesi it."