THE GREAT NICOLA
FAREWELL VISIT TO DOMINION Theatre-goers will learn with pleasurable anticipation that Sir Benjamin Fuller has made arrangements for a further tour of the Dominion by the Great Nicola with his new international company of entertainers. Dunedin will be included in the company's itinerary. The present will be Nicola's fourth tour of this country, and, incidentally, his last, as he has definitely decided to make this his farewell tour of the world, at the conclusion of v/hich he will return to the United States and retire to his estate, where he will devote the remainder of his life to writing and research work.
It is more than 25 years since Nicola made his first visit to this country, and almost 10 years since he last visited the Dominion. During the interim, Nicola has been appearing in the principal cities of Europe and the United States, and has from time to time added many new and startling effects to his show. One of his latelyperfected sensations is the age-old myth of India. "The Famous Hindu Rope Trick." For half a century, magicians all over the world have been trying to reproduce this fabled mystery, and leading journals throughout the world have offered substantial rewards to anyone that could successfully produce this seemingly unfathomable mystery, and it has fallen upon the shoulders of the Great Nicola to be the first magician successfully to produce f his greatest of al historical enigmas. Nicola will definitely produce this great Indian spectacle at his forthcoming visit here. and. in addition, many other startling features will be presented that are entirely new in principle and effect, and differ from anything that has been presented bv nnv other magician in the world. Sir Benjamin Fuller expresses pleasure ovej the successful conclusion of long negotiations to bring this worldrenowned magician again under his management, and he is also gratified by the highly-successful opening of the tour in Auckland
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23669, 29 November 1938, Page 15
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