The " Great Thurston" and his Company opened a short season at the am Theatre on Priday night toa Mr. Howard Thure: on's good performance. Rumour not lied, for the entertainment provided was really excellent throughout. Whether Mr. Thurston himself was occupying the stage—conjuring or perfor ing mystifying illusions—or whether the other members of the Company, Miss Maud Amber and Mr. Winfield Blake, wore delighting the audience .<C. Herald and S.C. & C. with song and burlesque, or agai ing the Edisonograph exhibition, each every item of & wall-arranged and varied programme was received with the greatest onthusiesm, and at the ted of an exhibition of legerdemain by Mr. Thurston, who is undoubt-idly "facile princeps" in the art. He is © master of card-manipulation, can produce from the most unlikely sources all manner of farm-yard animals, and can, at will, without any detectable mechanism, make & human being disappear instantaneously from sight, and re-appear. All these tricks were. performed with marvellous nestness and entitled " Creation disclosing on th glass tank, which was afte with full view of the The tank was then covered for seconds with an innocent-looking piece of cloth, which had boon fully displayed and could never have been imagined to contain " human being. On the cloth being removed from the tank, it was seen that the glass structure was now occupied by " lady, reposing at the bottom tank, That the Indy was 11 not an optical delusion was soon evident from the fact that ah rose from the bottom of the tank stopped out on to the stage, dripping with water.
In the second part of the entertain mont, Miss Mant Amber and Winfield Binko coen delighted the anti which or was deservedly m was not, a of long standing in cot burlesque. They possess t Following this turn, came ries of moving pictures by the Edisonograph, much amusement caused by the antics of magic letters their lively movements to form them-8 into the necessary words of les of the pictures, The pictures re very amusing and th was absence of that vibration usual machines of a similar kind which always ao trying to the eyes.
Mr. Thurston then gave an tractive exhibition of what described as "Chinese Magic", in the course of which he produced an apparently unlimited supply of water empty occa-nut shell, caused ble ballowr. ascond from an Perhaps the most wond was that entitled " Amusement." ithe rise of the curtain a Indy covered ¥ in a casket, and at the will of t's magician she rose in the ina hori tal position to a height Of some three "r four feet from the platform. Flow ug thus in mid-air, Mr. Thurston passed a hoop all around proving that there was no material artificial support, after which at hi command she performed various evolutions and then gradually descended and
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