THEATRE ROYAL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 108, 13 February 1872, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

Professor ITaselmayer performed his feats of magic, &c., last night to a full house, and certainly the whole performance was well worth seeing. The audience frequently testified their high opinion of the operator’s skill by bursts of genuine applause. The first part of the entertainment consisted of sucli tricks as we have oftentimes seen before, all of which were excellently performed. llis money trick, catching all the half-crowns, &c., was equal to Heller’s performance of the same trick, and that shows how good it was. Without doubt, Ilaselmayer must be a wonderful trainer of birds. His are simply wonderful, and their performances were so prettily and neatly gone through that they could not fail to please. And now we coine to the drum. “ That drum!” and how shall we describo it? To do so accurately would occupy too much space, so we will confine ourselves to a few of its doings. The drum is placed on a stand in the midst of the audience, and answers, infallibly, all questions put to it. Two gentlemen in the audience wrote certain figures on slips of paper, and placed them in their own pockets. The drum then gave the correct figures put down by each, after first giving the correct sum total of the two. The drum told correctly certain cards drawn by persons in the audience, also the numbers turned up by a throw of the dice. All this the drum told correctly; and then came the last performance of this wonderful instrument. The professor asked, pointing to a certain gentleman in front, if he (the gentleman) was in love ? No response. Pointing to another, the question was answered in the affirmative. How many times? Once, says the drum ; and then, pointing to another gentleman very well known in this town, the questions were both repealed ; but this time the drum, in place of stopping at the first beat, went on at such a fearful rate that it was impossible to count the number of times the gentleman had been in that predicament. This answer brought down quite a furore of applause, and the audience departed, having thoroughly en- | joyed the evening’s entertainment. It is not known whether the beating of the drum lias yet ceased. We had almost ■ forgotten the Stylocarpe, an instrument j invented by Ilaselmayer himself, which is ! very unique, but was heard last night to i disadvantage, as there was something wrong with the piano, or with the pianist, which defect, however, Mr Jones will have remedied to-night. An entire ; change of performance will take place to--1 night, with the exception of the birds and J the wonderful drum. Personals in the Pittsburgh journals arc almost exclusively announcements of the recovery of prominent citizens from the smallpox. A man in Cincinnati is organising a brass baud of twenty women,