The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-27
MYSTERYMANISTO
OPEN Engagement
HERE THIS evening
Blackstone and His Company Here
From Ohio Army Camp For Three
Day Stay in Maysvllle.
Today's the day.

Today's the day.
The Great Blackstone and his COM
pany of mystifiers arrived early this
afternoon from Camp Sherman, Ohio,
where they played three-day engage
men to capacity business. and tonight
will make their bow to Maysvillians
at the Opera House for three-day
run.
Those who chance to be In the VI
cinity of the theatre this afternoon
will observe an air of mystery that is
going to be reflected tonight in ca
pacity audience, judging by the i'm
mense advance sale not only for the
inaugural night but as we'll for each
of the other three performances. A
special mystery matinee is announced
for Saturday afternoon.
There will be loads of scenery, large
and small crates that will arouse the
curiosity Of every onlooker, a whole
menagerie, queer looking freaks that
must command awe and establishment.
Mystery will pervade the air. Every
small boy who has seen the circus bill
ling of the Great Blackstone on the
boards and elsewhere will picture the
little red devils that on the bill boards
whisper their secrets into the ears of
their big. manly looking master.
Blackstone invites, even challenges
detection. His whole performance is
staged so that his work is executed
near the audience, where everybody
will have an opportunity to inspect
his work at close range. He Is said to
be the only magician, illusionist and
who does not insist
upon the stage crew leaving the stage
while his performance is in progress.
The superman of mysticism does
much of his work in the aisles and
between the rows, so that his specta-
tors may watch his clever hands at
work. He invites men and women
from the audience to 60 upon the
stage during his performance to make
their own inspection and investiga-
lions. He makes them do card tricks
they never dreamed they could accom-
plish. He permits them to literally
scour the stage for appliances and
methods of trickery during his illu-
sion de resistance. the Levitation and
Disintegration of Princess Zrah.
In brief he defies the world.
One of his most elaborate achieve
ments, one that all magicians and IL
lusionists have agreed is the master,
piece of the art, is "The Bachelors
Dream" which will be town talk for
weeks after the superman's departure
from Maysville.
From two large plain tables on the
stage Blackstone produces a COM
pletely furnished bed room, with bride
asleep in the bed, maid in waiting
nodding at the foot of the bed. dress
err fully equipped, washstand with
pitcher and bowl, an electrolier in the
ceiling and many other adorments of
boudoir. In just AZ seconds
he makes this transformation from
two plain tables and large army
truck would be required to move the
from the stage.
Everybody in Maysville has read in
the newspapers, on the bill boards, in
the shop windows on the street cars
the injunction ASK the HAND or
Death" That is the browning spirit
ualistic achievement of the Black
stone production. The spirit rapping,
answering questions propounded by
spectators, will be a feature of each
performance and its operations will be
enlarged at the Saturday
mystery matinee for the benefit of the
patrons Of the Washington
Theater.