Archive for the ‘affiches’ Category
March 16th, 2005 | 
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the silver slipper
( … ) 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. ( … )
Bron: math.boisestate.edu
thurston
The largest apparent separation between Houdini and Thurston was their views on Spiritualism. Houdini spent tremendous amounts of time and energy exposing fraudulent mediums and spiritualists during the last years of his life. Thurston supported Spiritualism. While Houdini did believe in an afterlife, he felt that afterlife is so bizarre and unreachable that it has no relationship to our world and life. He saw the Spiritualist movement of his age to be a complete farce. Thurston, on the other hand, was friendly to the movement.
Bron: Houdini and Thurston
kellar
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.
Bron: magicandillusion.com
