Salle Diabolique
Event Information
Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Variety / Vaudeville
Performance Forces:
Instrumental
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
9 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
06 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM07 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM
08 Mar 1865, 2:00 PM
09 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM
10 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM
11 Mar 1865, 2:00 PM
11 Mar 1865, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
Heller’s Salle demonique. The “Gyges” includes Heller’s disappearing and reappearing, and playing the violin. Worth seeing and hearing.
“Heller’s solos on the piano-forte now include the brilliant, laughter-stirring burlesques, A Jolly Friend’s Reminiscence of Faust, and A Young Lady’s Music Lesson.”
“The ‘Gyges’ is a remarkable optical delusion (sic), and now works splendidly.”
“’The Gyges still disappears . . . before the gaze of the assembled throngs. Clever as the Gyges may be we prefer the Heller, with his tricks, and his hits, and his music, and other entertaining qualities. He is his own best card, and will never be without a star attraction while he shines so brilliantly himself.” The critic writes of a magic show of Heller’s in Ohio where he played a joke on an audience member, and the man’s and audience reactions to it.