Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-09-18
Stage Hll0siOns,
REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES OF A coNyuRER
Iy PARIS

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From the London Saturday Review.
Perhaps the best merit OF Q conjurer, says
the London Saturday Rersssc. Is the ability 20
devise new illusions: and this merit Buatier
de Kolta possesses In . high degree. His
Latest trick is the vanishing of o lady. II IL
the most startling and effective illusion which
has been brought out since the sphinx origi-
naly astonished and delighted the world Q
score of years ago or more. Buatier de Kolta
Eden thssisr in Paris Siin 50 great success
Visit to Ioppaon where Se has
during Che autumn tour Of Msssrs MssEs-
Is no copyright In the illusions OF con-
lurer, and INSCRIPTIONS imitators are oil
ready reproducing the semblancs OF his
night Therefore Buatier de Koita. nndiug
THAT ne was about 10 be forestalled, has de.
puted Mt Charles Bertram to present the trick
In London exactly as 1t Is done in Paris by the
inventor; and tor the past week MIR. Bertram,
al the Egyptian hall, has been vanishing lady"
twice aaily. Buatier de Kolta's Illusion 10
made the eliminating point Of the entertain
ment given 10y Messrs. Maskelyue and Cooke.
The performs nce begins with the exhibition OF
Maskeiyne ulilizes to record the results Of The
ieat OF mental teleKraphy,s in the exercise OF
which we remarked even more neatness and
ingenuity than We had discovered when We
nrst saw u. Then Mr. IL. Berne gave musical
ana ventriloQuial interlude, and Mr.. Charles
MELONS performs On Mr.. Maskeiyne's mechani-
| cal and automatic orchestra; atier which there
~ acted the spiritualistic sketch entitled Mrs.
Odoodn Dopaey's Light and Dark Seaace.
Ia most marvellous cabinet. Mr.. Charles
bertram thereafter does few magic feats
deity and effectively. Especially to be COM
menoeQ Is his improvement on the Trick with
the borrowed wedding ring, winch is found in
SIDE OF three sealed envelopes made from Dor.
rowed program. This trick was brought TO Eng.
NJ NArhAPk a A laSf aar A
Piccadiliy hall; but Mr.. Bertram accomplishes
II without the aid of an assistant and without
lsaSing The stage. Then comes the great event
OF tue evening, al escamotaga en- personne
vivante." Mr.. Bertram takes a large news
paper, which he uniolds in the center OF the
stage TO cut OH communication with any posi-
Ole tfap-door. On this newspaper he places a
u cnair. In the chair he places young
iaay, who crosses her hands in her lag
over her lace handkerchief. After she has als
parentiy been rendered insensible by inhala-
lions, Mr.. Bertran produces AN enormous black
by seven feet long. thus he a' brings . down
~ the audience to show that il ID
not In any way prepared, and the spec
tator can see That the silken stuff is tniu
enough to be translucent. With this flimsy
shawl Mr.. Bertrain completely covers the
young lady, Carefully adjusting it TO the floor,
anG as carefully tying AZ beAiud her head
W hen All has been done regularly and in order
and there is only to Ice seen the figure OF The
young lady as she sits an the chair enshrouded
| la the black veil, Mr.. Bertram suddenly
shatcnes away the silken shawl, which disap-
pears from his hands AT once. The young lady
has vanished; the chair stands there empty
save that there remains on the seat the Lace
handkerchief she had held ia her fingers; ii
has fallen from the touch vi a vanished hand
Amid The applause which this strange disap-
pearance calls forth Mr.. Bertram steps " the
door at the side OF tho stage, and leads On again
the young lady who vieut dc disparsitre.
Preacher. Guthrie, who was deposed by the
Michigan Methodist conference his own con-
iession oi immortality, has been reinsts,ted.
Henry A. Stangnouxht, oi New York, sho
himself last week because Ills lady love
did not reciprocate his affection This capt.
waited the lady, and she Was married to Staug
nought at the New York hospital On Saturday
Virgil, the great stallion, and the race horse
Dew Drop, that WAS purchased at tie kancocas
sale by the Dwyer Brot ler Tor S2Y,OoO and
Won tor her owners $4,000 this season, are
bot h dead.
the concession granted to Gen. Grants south
ern Mexican railway Tor waste lands in the
states vi Vera Cruz, tuebia, aXaca, and Chkpat
has been officially declared forfeited by the
Mexican government.
The edl.or ol the London Sportsman has tele
graphed To Hanlan > representative that Beach
Will only row him on Australian waters.