ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 15, 12 July 1911, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE GREAT NICOLA. The. most talked about show lli.tt lias ever titruck New Plymouth is to open I a short season at the Theatre Royal on .July 20, when "Nicola" will make liis debut. This is Nicola's first appearance , in New Plymouth, and judging from the interest taken by local theatre-goers, his reputation as an entertainer must have preceded him, and it is safe to predict a record attendance during his short I stay here. The Nicola show i.s a disj tinct novelty and vastly different from [any other entertainment that we have ever seen. From the earliest times when the Great Egyptian sorcerers and the Hindu fakirs mystified and amused the people of the early periods, magic was the best form of amusement, and so it has been from generation to generation up to the present time. Magic is still the most interesting of all entertainments. The Nicola magic is not of 'the old style which we have seen here in the past. Hi* is new, ariginal, and up-to-the-minute. Nicola, although still a young man, has invented and improved upon the old style magie, until it has become a science, and the prestidigitators of to-day are indebted to the young scientist for many of the new and improved methods now used by its exponent. Nicola is said to perform his I feats with such rapidity, one after another, that should one turn to a friend to express his opinion of an illusion, he is likely to miss two or three equally astounding feats, Nicola carries over fifteen tons of paraphernalia, and more, illusions than any two magicians extant. He is ably assisted by a corps of trained assistants, and the magical programme is interspersed with several high-class vaudeville specialities by America's best artiste. The plan opens at Collier's on Tuesday morning, July. 18, where seats can be "booked. I "