MYSTERIOUS NICOLA
A WONDERFUL MAGICIAN TO VISIT HERE. . It is seldom that a visiting company is as the press agent says it is, but the Great Nicola, the world’s wonderful transformist, will open a season at His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday, October 9, and it is said that ho will be a notable exception. Nicola comes here with a brilliant reputation and the heralding of his advance staff will not be short or even equal to the boosting of a performance which undeniably stands alone in the world. . ' It is said that Nicola is marvellous and that he lakes the audience by storm and literally sweeps them off their feet, as he whirls from one illusion to another .with lightning like rapidity. In his magic of the Universe, Nicola displays a remarkable exhibition of quick changes—one minute vou see him ns a Royal Chinese conjuror dressed in the height of Chinese fashion, the next as an East Indian Fakir, Japanese juggler, Egyptian Sorcerer, etc. The offering is refreshing to an unusual degree, replete with mysticism, melodramatic happenings, lightning transfigurations and novelties that bewilder and mystify the audience. An effective and almost unbelievable change takes place in full view, and on a fully lighted stage when Nicola stands in the centre dressed in full evening dross clothes of jet black, and changes (he colour of the entire suit to scarlet rod right before you in an instant. Nicola presents more illusions arid magical surprises in a. programme than is seen in a dozen performances. While illusions, magic, mystery are the paramount features of the production, the programme is not exclusively devoted to this, for ho is ably supported by a number d; foremost American entertainers who alone are worth seeing. Nicola has a large staff of illusion experts, and skilled mechanicians, all of them indispensable auxiliaries to insure the effects aimed for .and results attained. The dominion tour is under the direction of J. (J. "Williamson. Ltd., and up . to the present has proved highly successful. . The box plan opens at the Bristol on Thursday next for the season of eight nights and Saturday matinee. ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18673, 30 September 1922, Page 2
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