NICOLA, MAGICIAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 878, 23 September 1922, Page 2

NICOLA, MAGICIAN.

"These magicians are all the same: when you've seen one you've seen the [ lot,"' says the badly-bored man, but as plainly as daylight the bored man has not seen Nicola at tho Opera House. Nicola does things that are obviously quite impossible, but still he does them. Sometimes he uses nothing but a pair of really wonderful hands, then he calls on every day things to behave m outrageous fashion, and now and again he has the conventional stage cabinet set up before the audience, but whatever he does the house enjoys him immensely, and is still wondering long after it has gone home. The classic Indian basket and sword trick has no mysteries for him, no matter what it has for those who look on, but that is no more than a preliminary to his big substitution trick, m which a young lady bound and roped up m a sack and he change places and bonds m a flash. It is a startler. As a handcuff king Nicola takes a deal of tying up, and so far no one has been able to do the job, and, just how he does get outside of bonds and irons the audience can see for itself. He runs risks, too, m that ipart of his show."" Supporting him are several tip-top vaudeville artists: Ibex, shadowgraphist; , the dainty Dares.song and dance purveyors; Randolph "Wagner, the man with a box of chalks; and some others. It is a show with any amount of entertainment and. laughter to it, and one that should not be missed.