MELBOURNE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 316, 21 August 1858, Page 4

MELBOURNE.

The long-expected Wizaid of the North made his first appearance at the Theatre Royal, on Mon. day. This gentleman, for the last month, at least, has. not only made us acquainted with his pel sonnel, his history, end his achievements by every imaginable means ; not only have they been prominently placed thdt they who run might read, but evefy dead wall has become intimately acquainted with his antecedents, till sticking has received a never - before-known impetus, and the recent rise in the best Adelaide might be traced to m'oie remote causes than the enormous quantity used in the dissemination of his placarded wizai dship's renown. lie has come at last, and the Magical Temple is opened ; the paraphernalia, the cost of which is expressed by a factor and an interminable quantity of cypheis, is displayed to our wondering gaze. We have pigeons produced from cauldrons which we could have sworn we saw filled with water. We have bank notes produced from the interior of sperm candles, and the gaping jaws of the astonished denizen of the pit, who is called to assist. From the scrap book, three feet long, and six inches thick, we have produced a girl four years old, a cage full of canaries, a large portmanteau, and a couple of geese. We have living canaries, with a lady's ring tied round their

neck, pulled ready fledged from out of a hen's egg, ] a species of hatching altogether, contrary "to nature. We drink sherry and port out of a black bottle, and | then find, to our disgust, when the bottle is broken, that it contains two equivocally clean pocket handkerchiefs. But that is nothing to what follows. Two huge smoking plumpuddings are concocted in a black beaver of long seivice from the pit. The puddings, rocking and smoking, are cut up, and ladies in the dress circle pionounce them " nice." The same hat then vomits i'oith a bed lull of feathers. We see pocket handkerchiefs instantaneously washed, and returned fiom the other end of the theatre to their owneis. A poor simple female is betrayed into lending the Wizaid her bonnet. A man from the pit washes the bonnet, flowers, ribbons, lace, and all ; he holds it up drenched, and then — O horror ! — he wrings it out, the poor woman is aghast, but the bonnet turns out of a box, placed in iront of the dicss circle, in all its pristine fashion and consistency. The centres are cut out of awhite and colouied handkerchief, and in a moment afterwards are found with the coloured centre sewn into the white and vice versa. Pigeons by the dozen are placed in a box, and are tiansiormed into bouquets of roses. Ladies, gloves and bracelets are borrowed and disappear. On opening a huge case, which has been suspended all night from the ceiling, it is found to contain a score of others of ovevy gradation of size, and in the last one the gloves and bracelets aie found. But it is useless to follow a succession of feats that baffled comprehension and exceeded belief. To say that the tucks are wonderful, magical, preternatural' and incomprehensible is only to employ bynonymes that leave the subject inexplicable as ever. Seriously, the perfoim.inces of Anderson are wonderful, and although an occasional lacke gave us an inkling of the secret, our clue was boon lost, and the only solace we had was to make up our mind that the piofessor, despite his piotostations to the contrary, was in league with . This done, we felt ourselves wiser and more comfortable, notwithstanding our pioximity to the infenwi. We would rather be tricked by an imp, than believe our eyes and ears make fools of us. We resigned ouiselves to this easy solution of the mystery, and at every new revelation murmuied devilish good. After making due allowance for the exaggerations ot advertisements, the paraphernalia of the Wizaid is truly magnificent. The back of the stage literally ] glitters with candelabra, goblets, vases, and nondescript vessels beating at least the appearance of silver. The fmnituie is equally superb. There is nothing gingeibread or tawdry in anything either displayed or used in the enteitainment, and it is some time befwe one can believe that the collection beais anything like the value represented. Had mere attractiveness been the only object, it might have been attained at a much less cost. Of couise the house was full, and it is superfluous to say that Anderson was well received, and his performance a success. The vein of humour which has always characterised him, was not wanting on this occasion, and it added considerably to the amusement of the evening. — Age, June 25.

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