sappeared. During this circumstance, which
sufficiently employed the eyes of the spectators, the stage was
refitted, and the scene changed into a beautiful garden, with which the
third act began.

The scene painter, Devoto, painted the scenery and decorations for the
Goodman's Fields Theatre, where, it is interesting to note, David
Garrick made his first _London_ appearance in 1741. His first appearance
on any stage had been made at Ipswich on Tuesday, 21st July, in the same
year, under the name of Lyddall. Garrick, during his time, introduced
many novelties in the way of scenery and transparencies, acting on the
suggestions of Signor Seivandoni, the scenic artist at the Opera-house,
and the fencing master, Dominico Angelo. These transparencies became the
talk of London, and it has been known for several plays to have been
written so as to introduce them. The first transparent scene is said to
have been the "Enchanted Wood," introduced in "Harlequin's Invasion," at
Drury Lane, the painter being one French, the scenic artist of the
theatre.

Beverley, the scene painter for Madame Vestris, half a century ago,
brought fairy, or Pantomime, scenes to great perfection. Leopold Wagner,
speaking of them, says:--"We have it upon the authority of Mr. Planche
that these were almost entirely due to the skilled efforts and successes
of Mr. William Beverley, who, in the nature of Extravaganza, so
impressed the public with his fine talents as an artist upon theatrical
canvas, that gorgeous scenes became quite the rage, and how, year after
year, Mr. Beverley's powers were taxed to the utmost to outdo his
former triumphs, and how the most costly materials and complicated
machinery were annually put into requisition until the managers began to
suffer."

Speaking of the production on the 26th December, 1849, of "The Island of
Jewels," Planche says, "The novel, and yet exceedingly simple, falling
of the leaves of a palm tree, which discovered six fairies, supporting a
coronet of jewels, produced such an effect as I scarcely remember having
witnessed on any similar occasion up to that period. The last scene
became the first in the estimation of the management. The most
complicated machinery, the most costly materials were annually put into
requisition, until their bacon was so buttered that it was impossible to
save it. Nothing was considered brilliant but the _last_ scene. Dutch
metal was in the ascendant. It was no longer even painting