These talented exhibitors, in conjunction with Madam and Miss Daisy Silvester, gave their fourth performance before a Shanghai audience at the Lyceum Theatre, on Tuesday night last, when, despite very unfavourable weather, the house was well-filled by an audience who, by their frequent applause, seemed to be much gratified with the excellent entertainment pet before them. The programme embraced several new features, though the parts that were repeated possess sufficient attraction to warrant frequent production, if only on account of the complete mystic fication they cause.
After an overture on the piano, by Mr. G. B. Fentum, Dr. Silvester made his appearance and performed some exceedingly neat tricks of legerdemain, which elicited loud and frequent applause—the seemingly inexhaustible hat, from which was first extracted sufficient ribbon and ornamental boxes, &c., to half-stock a small
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