HELLER’S BONANZA COTERIE.

Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 45, 12 February 1898, Page 5

HELLER’S BONANZA COTERIE.

This clever company played to good houses in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The programme included conjuring, feats performed in a ‘ spiritualistic ’ cabinet, and some good comic songs by Mr Heller ; skirt dancing by Miss Yera Havlock, vocal items and banjo playing by Mr Percy Abbott, animated photographs, and “ Rosicrucian Psychomancy ” by Madame Heller. Mr Heller is a good conversationalist, and whilst on the stage he kept the audiences highly amused. ■ l/nder close supervision from two gentlemen from the audience he performed some mystifying tricks, which, he said, were done by some persons who claimed supernatural assistance. He has lost none of his deftness as a conjurer, and sings with good effect. Miss Havlock’s performance was certainly the best of its kind seen here. With a skirt, consisting of 200 yards of white silk, by certain moye-

ments she makes this flowing silk take extraordinary shapes, which, under the coloured lights, appeared very pretty and fantastic. The snn and the butterfly dances, in which Mr Heller focussed colored photographs and national emblems upon the dress, called forth signs of admiration from the audience. Mr Percy Abbott is a good singer, and plays the incidental music, which adds greatly to the effect of the living photographs'shown by the biograph. So many questions were written for Madame Heller. to answer that a large number could not be dealt with, but those she undertook were in cases dealing with the past, said to be wonderfully correct. The programme, on the whole, is attractive, refined, and well worth seeing, and the company will do well in their country tour, which includes the Bluff to-night, Winton on Tuesday, and Wyndham oa Thursday next.