Magic Show with Music
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Price: $.75; .50; .25
Event Type:
Orchestral, Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
10 August 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
05 Oct 1865, 8:00 PM07 Oct 1865, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“The Orchestra of the Academy will be in attendance.”
Performed with the “Orchestra of the Academy;” includes information about the magician and his travels in Mexico and Havana.
Music not mentioned. “At every one of his performances this skilful magician produces some new tricks and effects. He has carried the old hat trick to a stage of development which it has never before reached, and produces from an ordinary ‘beaver’ the recent assortment of articles, prominent among them a dozen of lighted paper lanterns. The most graceful of his performances is, however, his ‘Miser’ delineation—in which he finds money—hard specie—in the air and gathers it from the most apparently unproductive localities. The drum trick which Heller used here so successfully, Hermann explains so that the audience can thoroughly understand how it is done, the ingenious mechanism being exposed to view. Mr. Hermann has associated with him Mr. Hazleman, an inventor of intelligence and skill, and the first deviser of the drum trick.”