Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-09
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London Saturday Review.
Perhaps the best merit Of a oonjuror -
the ability TO devise new illusions ana
this merit Buatier de Kolta possesses IN q
high degree. His latest trick is the vanish,
ing of lady. II is the most startling ana
effective illusion which has been brought
out since the Sphinx originally aston.
ished and delighted the world score OF
years ago or more. Buatier de kolta IS
now performing the feat nightly h the
Eden Theatre in Paris with 80 great sue
CESS that he has been compelled 10 post
pone his promised visit TO London, where
he had intended appearing at the Egyp..
tian Hall during the autumn tour OF
Measra. Maakelyne and Cooke. But, I'M
fortunately, there is no copyright IN the
Illusions of conjurer, and INSCRIPTIONS
inlitators are already reproducing the
semblnnce OF his trick in two or three
music halls night. Therefore Buatier do
Kolta, finding that he was about to be
forestalled, has doputed Mr.. Charles ber-
tram to present the trick in London exnotly
as II IL done in Paris by the inventor ana
for the past week Mr.. Bertram, ut the
Egyptian Hall has been vanishing q
lady" twice daily. Buntier de kolta's
illusion is made tho eliminating point Of
the entertainment given by Messrs'
Maskelyne and Cooke. The performance
begins with the exhibition Of the sketch
ing automaton Zoe, which Mr.. Maskelyne
utilities to record the results Of the feat
Of mental telegraphy," in the exercise
OF which we remark even more neatness
and ingenuity than we had discovered
when we frat saw it. Then Mr.. II. Berne
gives musical and yentriloquial inter
lude, and Mr.. Charles Mellon performs
on Mr.. Maskelyne's mechanical and auto
matio orchestra; after which there Is
acted the spiritualistiO sketch entitled
"Mrs. Daffodil Downy's Light and Dark
Seance," wherein most marvellous mani
| festations occur In q most marvellous
| cabinet. M. Charles Bertram thereafter
does few magic feats deftly and
effectively. Especially to be commended
| is his Improvement on ths trick with
the borrowed wedding ring, which IL
1 found inside of three sealed envelopes
made from borrowed programme. This
trick was brought to England by M. Yer.
beck who did il last year at the Piccadilly
Hall but Mr.. BertrRm aocomplishes il
without the aid of an assistant and with
out leaving the stage. ThoD comes the
/ great event Of the evening, "Lescamotagf
on personne vivante" (does not this NEAR
"L'escamotage dune personne yiyante =
Conjurers' French is rs peculiar as thu
anglais de cuisine whereof we read il
Partisan noyels,) Mr.. Bertram takes I
large newspaper, which he unfolds in thu
centre of the stage to cut of communion
ton with any possible trap-door. Oh
this newspaper he places chair. In th,
chair he places young lady, who CROSSE
her hands in her lap over her lace hand
kerchief. After she has apparently beei
rendered iusensible by Limitations, Mr.
Bertram produces an enormous blRcl
silk handkerchief, about five fec
wide by seven feet long. Thi
he brings down to the audience b
show that ii is not in any way prepared
and the spectator can see that the silkei
stuff is thin enough TO DO translucent
With this flimsy shawl Mr.. Bortram com
pletely covers the young Indy, CAREFUL,
adjusting ii to the floor, and as carefull
tying il behind her head. When oil In
Deeh uohe regularly ana IN oruer, an
there is only TO BIO seen the figure of tn
young lady MS she sits in the chair en-
shrouiod in the black veil, Mr.. Bertran
suddenly snatches away the silken shawl
which disappears from his hands at once
The young lady has vanished the chai
stands there empty, savs that there re
mains on the seat the lace handkerchio
she had held in her fingers il has falle
from the touch Of a vanished hand. Ami
the applause which this strange disar
pearanco calls forth Mr.. Bertram steps
tho door at the side of the stage, nm,
leads on again the young lady who wien
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