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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 20 May 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Marvels of Electrioity.-Wlio knows but tbo day, or night rather, is near when we can see ana hoar our favorito actor by staying cosily at home, Juat read this from tlio current number of the Electrician : By aid of the dioseopo, an ingenious instrument brought to public notico during the Parisian Electricity Congress, patrons of the drama will henceforth bo able to see as woll as hear their favorite operatic and histrionic artists without moving a yard from home. The apparatus consists of a small" objective" lens, fixed in a position commanding the stago of some theatre, and connected by an electric wire with a dirainutivo whito gloss plato, which may be framed and sot'in the panel of a privato drawing-room, howover distant from the_ play-house in question. Total darkness having beon obtained in the room furnished with a dioscope, a perfect picture of tho stage, its scenery, actors, and so forth, faithful in color and absolutely reproducing the whole performance, will becomo visible upon the surface of tho glass plate. Supplemented by a telephone communicating with ihe theatre, the dioseopo will, therefore, enablo its owner to spend his evenings at the opera in dressing-gown and slippersj seated at home in an easy chair,