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( … ) Davis followed Florodora at the Lyric Theatre with a second Stuart/Hall musical The Silver Slipper. If its musical content seemed to be moulded rather closely on the Florodora score, it nevertheless fulfilled the ‘more of the same’ requirements opened by the extravagant success of the earlier show and The Silver Slipper had good runs in the West End and on Broadway, as well as being played in Hungarian in Budapest and in German in Berlin, where it played at the Neues Königliches Opernhaus in repertoire with no less pieces than Der Zigeunerbaron and Der Bettelstudent. ( … )

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But perhaps one of Kellar’s least known advancements in magic, would be his modification to the levitation illusion, as was later purchased by Blackstone from the Kellar estate. Blackstone successfully used the illusion for many years.

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When his wife Grace inherits her father’s stock, John Miller, the president of the Western Power and Development Company, becomes a millionaire and moves to New York with his family. Beset by business problems, Miller pays little attention to his wife, and Grace, feeling neglected, takes up with a bohemian set. Among her new acquaintances she meets Stuart Mordant, the attorney for Thomas Hurd, a business rival of Miller’s. Grace seeks refuge from loneliness in Mordant, who makes a bargain with Hurd to gain control of her husband’s company for half a million dollars. Mordant succeeds in compromising Grace and Miller, finding evidence of his wife’s betrayal, insists upon a divorce. Grace transfers her stock to Mordant, and at the stockholders’ meeting, Hurd demands Miller’s resignation. He is about to comply when Grace enters, exposes Mordant and destroys the transfer. Miller offers Mordant a pistol, suggesting that suicide is his only honorable alternative. Mordant takes the gun and leaves the room, but escapes to Europe, leaving behind a note which exonerates Grace. Grace and Miller then decide to unravel their problems together.

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Born in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 7, probably in 1870 (some sources give 1868 or 1876), Alice Nielsen grew up in Warrensburg and then Kansas City, Missouri. She sang in a church choir and received some voice instruction from a local teacher. About 1886 she had the opportunity to sing in a touring juvenile production of The Mikado. Her marriage to Benjamin Nentwig in 1889 was short-lived. In 1892 she and three other singers formed the Chicago Church Choir Company, and, after an unsuccessful tour through Missouri, she joined the Burton Stanley traveling opera company. In Oakland, California, she appeared as Yum-Yum in the Stanley production of The Mikado in 1893. The next year, after a period at the Wigwam, a San Francisco music hall, she joined the Tivoli Opera Company, with which she made her grand operatic debut in Lucia di Lammermoor.

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