The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-20
ADJUSTMENTS.
Grand-"KeIIar, the Magician,

No prestidigitateur in recent years, not
even excepting the great Hermann. has been
capable of mystifying an indianapolis aud
fence as did Kellar last night at the Grand.
This pleasant looking genius with his beau
tiful wife not long since returned from
India, where they pursued the study begun
in this country some years ago. Kellar has
so STEPPED himself in the famous black art
Of the skillful Orientals that he performs
some of the greatest wonders described by
travellers who have been to the fountain
head of all necromancy in the far away
East. The performance began with a series
of applause-producing tricks described as
pure sleight OF hand, but which were car
ried out with such art that the most ex-
perienced could not discover at what point
the deception began. Mr.. Kellar has the
happy faculty of taking the audience into
his confidence and suddenly creating start
ling effects that In less practical times
would certainly have written him down a
sorcerer and insured his orderly and ex-
peditious removal at the block. Placing a
tumbler and two tin cups on separate tables,
he filled the glass with bran, one cup with
white paper and the remaining cup with
colored paper. All three were covered and
the covers almost instantly removed. Be
hold a tumbler filled with sugar. a cup with
milk, and the second cup with steaming
coffee. He took six rings from ladies in the
audience. them into a revolver
and fired il at a box hanging from a rod.
The box was opened, five inner jewel cases
removed, the last one being filled with five
roses. He passed the box to the audience
and the ladies each selected a rose and
found their rings attached thereto with a
silk ribbon. Mr.. Kellar then went up the
aisle with a claret bottle in one hand and
a wine glass in the otner, offer1ng TO pour
might be named. The first man took water
and the LIQUID came out clear as Wauke-
sha. The next asked rye and Kellar poured
three fingers of as good booze as the
and sherry he got. Others called for whisky
and wine, each man being accommodated
to his taste, all from the same bottle. One
lady called the performers attention to the
fact that he had not returned her ring, a
small band with jewel settings. Kellar be-
came confused. claiming to have overlooked
declared Il was within. He then broke the
bottle by striking IL on the side with a
hammer. when out popped the cutest young
guinea pig you ever saw. 1t just filled the
bottle. Kellar came running down the aisle
with the little animal. Around its neck was
tied a silk ribbon on which the lady found
her ring. while the house a~pplauded fu-
riously.
With the assistance of Mrs. Kellar the
magician conducted a series of mind-read-
ing tests that We're more puZZling than his
a cabinet manipulation. Being tied by
four men from the audience he was free
to walk out of the cabinet in twenty sec
ondS by Allan Hendricks's watch. He dealt
the audience and then placing a pack OF
cards in a small cabinet the spirit of Gag
lioStro, by exhibiting cards at the cabinet
window, played the game, the woman win
ming. Kellar's masterpiece is his famous
'.hyto" trick, by which n little girl is locked
in a cabinet and made TO appear in a Sec
other part of the stage, a soldier beins
made 10 take her place in the original cab,