Theater playbill for Houdin and Caroline Houdin at the Tremont Temple, Boston, January 22, 1866
Contributors: Houdin, Caroline, performer; Tremont Temple (Boston, Mass.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: F.A. Searle, Plain and Ornamental Job Printer, Journal Building, 118 Washington Street
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Other titles: Houdin
Description: Tremont Temple, positively for one week only. Commencing Monday evening, January 22d, 1866 ... The unique and wonderful mechnicien, ventrioloquist, and prestidigitateur Houdin! en route from China, Japan, East Indies, and the Sandwich Islands, with his extraordinary daughter Caroline Houdin, and the Arab boy, Al-Raschid, will appear in their marvellous, laughable and startling feats, Eastern necromantic illusions, with Houdin's mirth-provoking Automata! ... The sleeping Arab of the desert!, or "Suspension in the Air" of the Arab Boy. Houdin's wonderful feats are performed after the style of the East India Jugglers, on the naked stage, without the aid of tables, traps, or conferacy of any kind .. Everyhthing advertised performed. Crowded houses. Triuphant success ... Eclipsing everything of the kind ever presented to the American public. The Great East India Deception, El Chapeo de ta Travulo! will be introduced ... Second Sight ... Programme changed nightly. No money taken at the entrance ... A grand matinee on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, commencing at three o'clock ...
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

Portrait illustrations of Houdin and Caroline Houdin on playbill.

LC copy rehoused: 2014-08-14. Shelved in Oversize.

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