"NICOLA THE GREAT."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 9

"NICOLA THE GREAT."

Mr..' -wondrrfiil *■•• J »r* at th* N>W Oprrs H<r.:«e th:« b? the cr-at Xitola. the tD»K ' .an. from iilaiion* inroiTin# the apparent murder of jounj womro iq limp!* aleiff of hand—siropie, tbat ia, b«"»a«e Nirola makrs it appear «o. Nicolaisa much-travelled man. *ho tai appeared m moat o; the countries of the wcr'cj, and he ha* learnrd n.»tiv oi th« out*t*nding tncks ci the mystic E*»t. China. India, and Ejypt havinc eupphed Mini with their beat, and in tho first part of bs entertainment he appeared in imp«r»on»tion» of cotyarcrf Datitre to those Uoda. Aj the Roj-»! Chines* conjurer. C'hinj I.tnf Foo. he preaected a ,«eriea of myjteries, the moss »triiinc cf which »n the «'r»tch inc nf a aoman'i arma and lef* to such an et'.er.t a« to make the fle*h of tfcose present rreep. • th< of relief bem* heard on all sides »h»a the "rictun'' «t«pp*d out of her rack qaite unhurt. A« the Hindu fakir, Ha««aD Bus. b» did the famou* Indian basket Irirk, restored » turt-an which «i« cut in halvej, (he t*o piecen being perfecllT rejoitied when he chose l-o do this, concluding the acene wilh a wonderful levitaHon act. In the ro'e of the Koral Etrptian mr.:erer. Prinze Rametet Aba«. hj» further baflled hi* audience by producinif two young women from a cabinet, and after he had Keen distinctly obtened standing in the cabinet, a lhiwlcovered flr-re which crawled out in his pre*, ence aeea to be the man himself. altho-i»h ho-T Nicola apparently came to be in two placea at the tame time ®«> n<u eTident. Two clerer ar:i.«t«. Herman Holmberf and Ibex, the Shadowgraph K;cj. asi.ited with bnjht fjm*.