Figure of about man size, dressed in Chinese costume and connected by wires to a small cabinet. Numbers and words are written by men in the audience and one man chooses a card and the figure is able to read them. Two poker hands are dealt to audience members and the figure guesses how many cards each will draw.
Two women and a man who acts as an anouncer. One woman sits in a chair and the man puts her into a hypnotic trance. Her hands are outstretched and the stage hands lift the blocks by bamboo rings to hang on her forearms. The men then stand on her arms. She holds the blocks for two and a half minutes and the combined weight for a bit less. The woman’s arms are slightly built and she looks to be in pain while the weight is on them.
Lacks the attractiveness of Mrs. Fay, she is middle aged and stout. The act commences with an announcer in evening dress. Black boards are set up with numbers written on. While blindfolded Sa-Hera reads them and adds the figures.
His act is similar to the one done by T. Nelson Downs except that he works with a black drop and has a better stage presence. His best trick is carrying cards and coins acoss the back of his hand.
Worked by a man, woman and a boy. A tripod with a plaster woman’s head and shoulders are shown. Flesh colour is added, and undergarment placed on and a large dress thrown on the whole thing. A wig is placed on with the hair covering the face. It is turned away from the audience and when turned back walks to the footlights and thanks the audience.
Miss Fay performs some spirit cabinet tricks which were much better done by Harry Kellar. Does some hackneyed table lifting. Pretends to cause a hankerchief to rise through psychic force but a thread can be seen running out of it. The audience writes questions down on paper which they keep. Miss Fey comes out in an egyptian costume, sits in a large chair and is blindfolded and covered with a sheet. She then anwsers these questions.
Works so rapidly that the audience has trouble keeping pace. Improvment of Jeanne Fransiolo’s appearance with a wreath of golden hair. She has developed a real stage presence.
Auditors are invited on stage to examine to cabinet, cords and knots with which she is surrounded.She is tied to the back of a chair and several objects within reach are thrown out. Questions may be written and retained and then later answered. Later in the program she returns and gives answers to the questions.
Works so rapidly that five assistants are required. Fits two hours worth of entertainment into half an hour. Shows great improvement in every way. No longer replicates tricks with slight changes. The feature is firing a woman from a cannon into a nest of trunks above the audience. Does the plant and pot trick with deftness. One trick was badly done with a car being lowered before the curtains hiding the woman who is made to dissapear are closed.
Max Sterling and a shabby outfit of aparatus. The gong trick was shown first. No new principle is used. Three assisstance are used. A girl who appers from behind a screen and is placed in a trunk with a false back, and in a De Kolta “vanishing lady chair” who hides behind a staircase. A man in a cage with a mirror who changes places with another man, who changes places with a girl. As an interlude while the stage is being changed, the girl is fitted with cloth “moth” wings. Apparatus in a shockingly bad state
