Adelaide Herrmann
Her illusions were “augmented by an effective stage setting”.
Henry Clive
Horace Goldin
“An entrance is now had with Jeanne Fransioli, as well dressed and as handsome as ever, if not more so, being drawn on the stage seated in a sedan chair. It is rested on the floor by the four bearers, and Miss Fransioli, after drawing the curtains, steps out. The curtains are raised, and Goldin bows to the audience from within. The chair has no unusual depth, and it is a striking illusion for the start.”
Horace Goldin
Horace Goldin
Horace Goldin
“Speed was the secret of the second series in which Goldin presented an entirely bewildering array of illusions and legerdemain. Clever impersonation and duplication of familiar feats constituted the first, while the third was a drama in pantomime, dressed and staged like a comic opera spectacle.”
Eva Allen
Eva Allen
“Before Eva appeared on the scene, […] her company came down the aisle and gave everyone a pencil who wanted to write a question for Miss Allen to answer. All questions when written were folded and hidden. […] Most of the requests were for lost articles and proof of the correctness of the answers given was wanting.”
Eva Fay
“She appeared twice on the bill, first in a series of cabinet feats such as spiritualists are wont to perform in darkened rooms, but this time on a brilliantly lighted stage, after a committee from the audience had securely bound and bandaged her to a chair attached to a pole in the center of the cabinet.”