THE GREAT LEVANTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 7

THE GREAT LEVANTE

PERFORMANCE IN OPERA HOUSE. ILLUSIONS AND REVUE. The Great Levante and his revue “How’s Tricks?" received round after round of well merited applause from a packed house at the Opera House, Masterton, on Saturday night. From start to finish the high standard of entertainment set by the company held the attention of the audience. The Great Levante and his forty assistants treated the audience to' a fastmoving series of mystifying tricks and spectacular illusions, combined with the colourful work of a ballet. The programme was arranged to provide for continuity of acts which switched from mystery to humour in rapid sequence. A steel box provided the most outstanding item on the programme. Four members of the audience tied one of Levante’s assistants in a silk bag, put her in the box and strapped it down. A screen was put round the box, Levante went behind it and after a few seconds the screen was removed. When the bag was opened it contained Levante. The three card monte, the haunted hotel, the magic kettle, a talk with a gramophone record, numerous card tricks and many other clever illusions were well received. Variety was provided by a complete ballet of experienced tap and toe dancers; a pair of expert acrobatic dancers and Protea, a girl who sang appropriate songs in a series of kaleidoscopic views.