The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1905-12-22 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

THE HIPPODROME.  The attendance at this house of entertainment during the week has been of a record breaking character. On Tuesday, every seat in the place was occupied, and many people were compelled to stand through the performance. The reason is not far to seek. By the engagement of such high-class artistes as Goldin and Dates, good business is assured. Those who have the opportunity of seeing Goldin, readily acknowledge him to be far and away the best man in his particular line of business. Goldin is a wizard, a magician, a living contradiction to the maxim that seeing is believing. The audience sees him apparently doing feats they know he can't do, and does not do, except by tricks, the secret of which is known only to himself. He produces live stock from a bucket, and taking a four or I`,- • ',num] dock in his hand, he appears to roll it ".1.4 a piece of paper, and throw it amongst the audience. That duck re-appears in a tub of water, which a moment before was empty. But his vanishing feats are the cleverest, the quickest, and the most bewildering we have ever seen. They must be seen to be appreciated. His work has the dispatch, the neatness, the quick succession of illusion on illusion, that the audience has hardly realised the cleverness of one before a cleverer is exposed to its view. He was loudly applauded on Tuesday evening, and responded in a few sentences of good English. Another star turn is Betas, the human almanack, who appears to have thoroughly assimilated Haydn's " Dictionary of dates,- "Annals of Yorkshire," and other historical frorks. He was asked the dates of the Phenix Park murders, and detailed the whole dates and circumstances. He also gave the dates of Marsden Moor and Bills o' Jack's murders, but seemed beaten by a request for the date of the Mirfield murder, and another i;t Batley. Shipwrecks, floods—Holmfirth, Bradford, and No's,—fallen chimneys, he rattled off with remarkable rapidity and accuracy. His agent, in introducing him, told how DMus had sold his head to an American doctor for surgical purposes when dead, for Stylo is vury smart as a hoop manipulator, and the ItinglinF Trio do a funny sketch entitled "A manager s lunch." Mdlle. La Corina is a more fascinating dancer than a singer. Flo D'Orvillo sang cockney songs. Jack Lennox is an able comedian, and the Zenary Brothers are remarkably smart nrol finished in their balanein, ' .• and athletic feats. L 0 C  AL SHARE MA mP W entley k Co., fiudi  -15 zp  41  l .0111pw77  :.5 21 60 leo  Stock 2 6 10 to  10 alsithwatitscau.... 2 !do  4 Slaiths;aite Spinnin-jr. 6 , Globe Worsted ICO Longwood GS3 100 do. 4 pr cent. prf 1U Halifax and Iladi,refield Union Bank 10 Halifax Jnt Stook Bk 10 Lance and Yorks Bk 12i London City& Mid. Ilk 151 Union of London and  Smith's Bank . 10 A. &8. Henry & Co.. 74 11. Vickerman & SORB 10 do. 6 per omit pri Crowther, Bruce & Co. 6 do 6 per cent prl 1 ForEs Indic° Dyers do. 51 per cent pat 10 Jackson's Sterna 6 per cent pet 10 Jno. Barran & Sono 6 per cent pal 100 do. 41i per cent deb 2 John Crossley k Sono 5 do. 5 per cent pat 10 Leeds Firoclay Co. 10 do. 6 per cent pa e•Learoyd Bros & Co 6 do. 6 per cent pat ai ?althorn Spinning Co 10 T. F. Firth k Sons no I do. 644 per rdrt dP:ht • X: div.