Frank I. Frayne “plays a Chinaman without inpiring the audience with murderous thoughts.”
On the flags in the background he states “Traditional Angelus Bells” and “Prehistoric Trumpet-Bugle and Drums Militair”
They do a little dancing
The tricks are old and not big. One good trick is the balancing of the wheel on the backs of two of the team rather than a table, but this alone will not save the act.
Lacks the spontaneity of the earlier offering.
They should both work as men and “leave the wench out”
Employs a lantern arranged in a prism, which throws upon a screen an image drawn on smoked glass. Portraits of some well known people as well as buildings such as the Flatiron building and the Statue of Liberty. Act is faked, two sheets of glass are used one painted over with lampblack to erase the perceeding picture, the picture slide is removed and a new subject substituted. The lampback is removed and the second slide shows through.