Theater playbill for Mr. Wyman at Odd-Fellows' Hall, Washington, D.C., September 3, 1860
Contributors: H. Polkinhorn & Co; Odd Fellow's Hall (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: H. Polkinhorn, Printer
Published: 1860
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Other titles: Wyman's grand coup de etat in necromancy!
Description: Odd-Fellows' Hall. Monday, September 3, '60 and every evening during the week Also on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, at 3 1/2 o'clock. Wyman's grand coup de etat in Necromancy! He will perform some of the most wonderful things ever witnessed in the practice of the mysterious arts of diablerie and magic! He will not promise, exactly, to Restore the dead to Life! nor yet engage, in so many words to make Spirit Voices audible to common ears; but he will approach as nearly to it as the resources of Science will admit. He will render the visible invisible! Exhibit a wonderful bottle that cannot be emptied! And in its multiplicity of supply is a complete liquor saloon itself, compelling a drum to turn spirit rapper and answer his enquires; beside the famous Crystal Casket! ... Gunfeat ... Necromantic Illusions! ... Arts & Mysteries ... During the evening Mr. Wyman will perform his ventriloquism ... The exhibition concluding with Wyman's laughable life-moving figures ...
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).