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Chris Scott
Detective Sergeant
Username: Chris
Post Number: 109
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 9:51 am: |       |
Hi all
I found this short notice posted in the Decatur Daily Despatch dated 22 September 1889
Any further info known?
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John V. Omlor
Detective Sergeant
Username: Omlor
Post Number: 93
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 10:29 am: | |
Hi Chris,
From our very own Casebook, a passage from the London Observer of Saturday, August 17, 1889:
The Whitechapel Murderer on the Stage. -- Jack the Ripper will be able to do what no other assassin has been in a position before him to achieve. Having still complete liberty of action, he can, if it please him, go and behold himself as the hero of a drama. Messrs. Xavier Bertrand and Louis Clairan have written a play entitled "Jack l'Eventreur," in which the Whitechapel fiend is the principal character; and this piece is to be produced in a day or two at the Chateau d'Eau Theatre in Paris. The legendary Jack will assuredly be wanting in ordinary human curiosity if he fails to avail himself of one of the numerous cheap trips to the French capital, in order to see for himself what a couple of ingenious French playwrights, well versed in the physiology of crime and criminals, have made for him. Seeing what French writers habitually do when they touch English subjects, some of the characters and incidents in "Jack l'Eventreur" will doubtless be very amusing to such English tourists as may happen to stroll into the Chateau d'Eau Theatre to see the play. East London will of a certainty be vested with attributes of a new and startling sort. Quite recently there appeared a serious article in the Gaulois, in which Whitechapel was spoken of as the locality where "le cher Charles Dickens" lived and died. When "able editors" thus err, what is to be expected from playwrights, who at least may claim the poet's privilege of license?
All the best,
--John
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Chris Scott
Detective Sergeant
Username: Chris
Post Number: 112
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 11:34 am: | |
Hi John
DOH! I should have known to look here first!!
Many thanks
Chris
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Christopher T George
Detective Sergeant
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 119
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2003 - 3:10 pm: | |
Hi, Chris:
Yes indeed as John kindly showed you, this Parisian production is well known. As it states in this London Observer piece of Saturday, August 17, 1889, this production raises the possibility that Jack could have seen himself onstage.
All the best
Chris |
Stephen P. Ryder
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2720
Registered: 10-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 7:26 pm: | |
By the way, I've got copies of the original play and have translated it into English. Shakespeare, it isn't. Its a 4-hour long piece, involving a bumbling London police chief, a rowdy street gang, a love story, a mother-son reunion, various and asunder tragedies, etc. etc.
Have intentions to put it up on the Casebook, but need to polish the translations a bit I think.
Stephen P. Ryder, Editor
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