NICOLA.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1922, Page 11

NICOLA.

Nicoja, who will appear at &*> Gwndl Opera, Home on Tuesday next and following evenings, under the direction of J. 0. Williamson, Ltd., goes wandering round the theatres of the world m^-ing' things disappear is little puffs of make, and making them reappear without the puffs of smoke, a akiUed'mechanic make* all ,fche magical apparatus for brim in his own workshop in Moiunoutb'V near Chicago. He works continuously all tha. year round, turning out magio at a furir ous rate. Sometimes he thinks of idea* himself, and works them out, at other times Nicola hits upon a' scheme, and sendr plans to th 6 mechanic to be made" up. Nicola does not lay claim to th» supernatural; he calls himself a magician,----i and he says frankly that the whole art is deception. Of his opening night at the Criterion Theatre, Sydney, the i "Daily TelegTaph" said : "Nicola is one of'tljose expert showmen who can make the oldest trick new, and can make an illusion an astounding creation of an imaginative brain. In short, Keis'itho master magician." Nicola ia supported by a company of American star vaudet ville company, and the whole entertainment is one which will appeal to all classes of the community, old and .young alike, and) if is said there is never & dull moment from rise tc fall of the curtain. The box plans are at The Bristol for the first six nighte and Saturday matinee: