Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
woes PoPULI.
IN Evening with . Copjuror


Scene-A suburban hall. The performance has
not yet begun. The audience IL limited and
fov-spirited and may perhaps number, in
Guiding the attendants eighteen. The only
people I'm the front seats are q man in fan
evening dress. which he tries 10 conceal under
capped cloak, and two ladies' in plush opera
cloaks. Fog is hanging about in the rafters
and the gas stars sing q melancholy dirge.
Each casual cough srouses dismal echoes.
Enter an intending spectator, who is con-
Quoted TO seat in the middle of an empty
row: After removing his hat and coat. he
suddenly thinks better-or wor-e-of it. puts
them on again and vanishes hurriedly.
First Sardonic Attendant Cat doorway
Reg lar turnin EN- away tonight. we are
Second Sardonic Attendant-He come mn 10
me afore he goes 10 the pay box. and seq he,
us there seat left?' he ser. And ser TO i'm,
well, think we can manage 90 squeeze YOU
| IN somewhere" Like that, I seq.
CHE orchestra, consisting OF two thin
armed little girls, with pigtails. enter and
perform O stumbling overture upon a
cracked piano Herr Won Kamberwohi.
the conjuror. appears ON platform amidst
loud clapping from two obvious confed-
stes IN a back row.
Herr V. K Gin q mixed accentlI.ytiesand
shentilmans. befoor / commence viz my hillu-
| sions zis heSenin'. L ave most hemphadically 20
repoodiate hall assistance from many spirrids
or soopernaturai beins vatsohever. AMI shall
| ave re honor of showing YOU will Do PERFORM
BY simple sioight Of and. OF ledger-,iee-mang,
lHe invites any member OF the audience 20
step up and assist him. but the spectators
| remain coy.) l see Eat I ave not tonight 30
larsh an orience 10 select from as usual,
still 'ope-(here one of the obvious con-
federates slouches up and joins him on the
platform). All, Eat is goot! am vair moch
obiige to you. sare. (rhe Confederate grins
sheepishly) Led me see-I seem to remem-
Der your face some'ow. broader grin from
confederate.) Hah. You yos ere last night
Eat EXPLAINS it But you ave neyaire assist me
befoor, eh? Reckless shakes OF the head from
Confederate.) l thought nod. Bot Won viii
dry? You neyairc dell vat you gan do tall you
dry, as re ole SOW said ven she learn ze Ealpha-
bet. lHe pauses for a laugh-which doesn't
| Gomez Now, sare, you know a cart ven Won
see mn All. zat is something's alretty! Now
Will ask you to choose any cart or carts ont OF
zis back. (The Confederate fumbles.) don't
wish to urry-you, but want you to mike haste,
DC.
The Man in Evening Dress-I emember wing
Bimbo, the Wizard of the West a guinea once
to,teach me that trick. There was nothing in IT,
First Lady in Plush Coat-And can you do it?
The Nj. in Z. d. (guardedly We'll. don't
know that ! could exactly do it now; but I
He explains deliberately how il is done
Herr Won h. stamping, as a signal that the
Orchestra may leave off )-Next 4 shall show
You my celebrated Infusion of re inexhaastible
At to conclude viz re Invisible En- And L
shall be moch obliged if any shentelmans viii
kindly favour me viz lis at for re purpose Of
my experiment.
The NJ. in f.. D.-Hcre's mine-it's quite at
your service. Go his companions.) This is
stale old trick. he rerely-(explains a. be-
fore) But you wait and see how I'll score of
him over it
Herr V. X. Ito the NJ. in +. D.)-You are
gvide sure, sare. you leaf messing insoide Of
your at.
The NJ. in f. d. with a wink to his neigh
bors)-cn the contrary. there are several little
! things there belonging TO me. which III thank
you To give me back by-and-by.
Herr N-h. Owing into the hat)-So? Vat
ave We ere? \ bonch of fiowairs, Anozzer
bonch of fowairsI Anozzer-and anozZeri Ha,
do You always garry fiowairs insoide your at.
sarc2
The NJ. in E.D.-Invariably-to keep NV head
cool; SO hand them over, please; want them.
| lHis companions litter and declare lit really
| is too bad of him.
Herr V.K.-Bresently. sare-zere il sometimes
aiise, IT feels lolke-yes, it ees-a mahouse drap.
Your haid Is drouble vid moice sare YES! Bot
Zere is none ere in re at
The M. in ED. with rather feeble indigna-
| ton IL never said there WERE
Herr V. k.-No, Zere is no mahouse-bot-
diving again -he ieedie vide rad Anozzer
| vide rad. And again a vide rad-and one two
dree more vide RAIDS. You Wind zey keep your
haid noice and cool, sare May drouble YOU
| TO com and dake zem avay? L don't loike re
vide RAIDS myself, 1t is madden of daste. CThe
audience snigger.) Oh, bot vait-zis is a most
convenient at Extracting large feeding bot
tie and a complete set OF baby linen)--ze shen-
lehman is VARY domestic. see. And zere is
more yet, he Is goot business man, he knows
how you must hadyertise in ices ere tonnes
L as clip me, SO viii clip i'm by distributing
ONE of his cairculars for i'm.
(he showers cards, commencing somebody
seif-adjusting trousers among the audience,
each person receiving about two dozen
chiefly IN the eye-until the air is dark and
the floor thick with them.
The III. in 4. ID. (much annoyed)-Infernal
liberty COMPOUNDED impudencei ShouIdn I
have had my hat if I'd known he was going to
play the fool with it like this
First Lady in Plush Coat-But 1 thought you
knew what was coming?
The M, in Z. D.-So I debut this fellow
does il differently.
Herr Won X. is preparing to fire marked
half-crown from blunderbuss into q crys-
| tai casket.
A Lady with Nerves Ito her husband John,
I'm sure he's going 10 let that thing off,
John "a brute We'll, l shouldn't be surprised
If he is. can't help it.
The L.with N.-You could if YOU hked-you
could tell him my nerves won't stand 1.-THE
trick viii be every bit as good If he only pre-
tends to fire, I'm sure.
John-Oh, nonsense You can stand il very
well if you like.
The L.with NJ can't John. There.
! he raising it to his shoulder. John, must 60
out. l shall scream if l sit here, know
| shall!
John-No, no--what's the use? He'll have
fired long before you get to the door. Much
better stay where you are and do your scream
ing sitting down. CThe conjuror tires.) There,
| you see, you didn't scream after all
| The l.. with NJ screamed 10 myself which
/ is ever so much worse for me; bat you never
] will understand me till it's too latei
(Herr Won X. performs another trick
| First Lady in Plush Coat-That was very
clever, wasn't it! can't imagine how it was
! done,
The NJ. in E. ID. Gin whom the memory of his
desecrated hat is still ranking oh can't YOU?
| Simplest thing in the world-any child could
do it!
Second Lady-what, find the rabbit inside
those boxes, when they were all corded up and
sealed!
| The N. in Z. D.--You don't mean to say Won
were taken in by that? Why, it was another
rabbit, Of course!
First Lady-But even if it was another rab-
bit il was wearing the borrowed watch round
| Its neck.
The M. in ED-Easy enough to slip the
! watch in if all the boxes have false bottoms
Second L.-Yes, but he passed the boxes
round for US TO examine.
| The N. in E.D.-Boxes-but not those boxes
4 4 p,,yb hon n ~, IL.