THE STEEN-SMITH COMPANY.
The Steen-Smith Company appeared in the Theatre Royal yesterday to a tolerably large audience. So much has been heard of the wonders performed by Mr and Mrs Steen that there was a great deal of curiosity to see them. Before beginning the performance Mr Steen invited the audience to select a Committee to go on the stage and watch what was to be done, and accordingly six gentlemen, most of them well known in Nelson, stepped forward and were present during Mr and Mrs Steen's part of the entertainment. I Mrs Steen then entered and sat on a chair with her face to the audience. She was carefully blindfolded with a handkerchief by one of the Committee before going through her feats. Two black-boards stood on the stage behind her, oue blank and the other having on it a representation of a chess-board with the squares numbered. A member of the Committee pointed to one of the squares and at once, without the least hesitation, Mr Steeu at Mrs Steen's direction made the knights tour over the board, covering every square aud returning to the starting one. A number of figures were written ou the other board by one of the Committee, and the correct addition waß at onoo given and all.the figures named. The dat:s and hour of "birth of several of the Committee were stated and acknowledged to be correct, nnd names written and thought of were repeated. The latter tricks were particularly hard to explain, as apparently Mrs Steen could not receive auy private signals from her husband. A number of articles belonging to members of the audience were tuen desbribed by Mrs Steen on being shown to her husband, showing the existence of a wenderfully well devised code of communication between tbem Mr Steen was oareful to assure his audience tbat he made no pretensions to receiving supernatural aid, and that all the feats were due to skill. The litter put of the entertainment consisted of a performance by Mr Oscar Smiuh, who is a clever ventriloquist
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1893, Page 2
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344THE STEEN-SMITH COMPANY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1893, Page 2
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