NICOLA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 1 August 1911, Page 5

NICOLA.

A REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE.

There was «. large and csn.tliusaa.stic audience in the Mactorton Town Hall last evening, to witness- the entertainment given by "Nicola," the Monarch of Mystery, in his illusions and .soiientific problems and original tricks. The. programme was< a remarkably clever one, and the audience were bewildered and amazed at the list of startling surprises presented, and testified their appreciation, by frequent and hearty applause. The entertainment is not of the- ordinary kind, but a series of I j new aaid unique illlusionn and novelties, most elaborately staged-, Th? j programme was divided info three.: steo.tio.TjS', the first porton- of which consisted of isome twenty illusions, j all given in a manner as toot to .permit of one nipnent of monotony. Probably the best- performance in this part i®. "The Astral Bride- and the Brahmin Priest,'' in which Nicola placed a young lady asaiisitant in a. oamopied seat and drew a curtain around her. Hie then- enclosed himself in another curtained apartment. Almost immediately the tlra-pings Were thrown aside, ' showing that both l Iliad vanished. Astonisihmenft, however, was. great wlheai Nicola and his assistant rani through the body of the Hall on to the istage and bowed/to- the audience. Nicola- also introduced-, amoavg other .things, the haunted cabinet, .the prisoner of Borneo, and the throne of Delhi. The first of theso items is a '.marvel. of mystery, and, the noises;;, that emanate from this chamber weird. In the prisorjief Vi of • Borneo. act a young lady was strapped to a board in an, upright position so 'that die" could move none of her limbs, and was placed in a. -wooden- apartmen.t so restricted in size that it seemed as if she could not turn round even if she had loosed herself. The doors were closed for a couple of seconds and opened again, when it was found that the young lady stilt strapped to the board, wias in the apartment head downward. Conv edy is also introduced into rthe illusions by "Dobski," ,a. man who has beejii aptly described as making "laAvkwaaxlness'ia.ni lairt." He works in. the guise of an eooenitrio butler, and to isee Mm fumbling and dropping everything lite- handles., at the most inopportune time m rhighly diverting. "Mijidalhiy," the comedy juggler, is a remarkably clever artist, and treated the audience to some amaxing juggling feats, performed, apparently, with the grea.te-.sit ea.se. The entertainment of mysteries will be pre.sien.ted again this evenr ing for the last tame, wihem a large attendance should be assured.