THE MAN OF MYSTERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 3

THE MAN OF MYSTERY

NICOLA, Mystery is just one feature of Nicola’s great, performance. The whole world loves to bo mystified.' As the flame draws tho moth, and the magnet bits of steel, so mystery attracts the young, tho old, the grave, the gay. Its enchantment is irresistible. '' The ancient 'people had their soothsavers, their temple mysteries, their oracles, the Indians had their medicine men, the Puritans their witches, the Hindoos their Fakirs, but with Nicola mystery becomes an art. he is not a mountebank, nor n charlatan. but a Royal entertainer.. He has set aside all known scientific principles, ho upsets nature's laws completely. Unfathomable methods with the aid of dexterous manipulations are outplayed in order to gain the wonderful and weird effect in the production of his great illustrations, all of which are of his own invention. _ The man who has spent a lifetime delving into science is baffled beyond description by Nicola’s original methods of producing and presenting wonderful, novel, and unique entertainment. There •is much to see, much to bear, and when it is all over, much to think about. No ono should miss the opportunity of seeing (he performance of Nicola, tho man who has mystified millions. His entertainment sparkles with originality, and his remarkable transformations awaken the keenest interest of his audiences. Just when they think they arc looking at him closest, ho is somebody else and somebody else is ho. His cmitUinding personality and original style is so far removed from any other kind of entertainment, and every surprise is so stamped with bia individuality that one can’t. Help but marvel at him, who cun bo so “different" from all other artists and yet so much more interesting and entertaining. Nicola comes to us in tho heydoy of his fame, supported by his big American company of illusionists and complete staff, together with some of (ho foremost entertainers in the Stales. The tour is under tho direction of J. (J. Williamson, Ltd., which stamps it, with the seal of success. Tho box plans open at the Bristol on Thursday and the season, which is for eight nights only, opens on Monday next at His Majesty's Theatre.