HORACE GOLDIN

  1. Performer rushes on stage, seizes handkerchief, and produces a fire bowl from under it.

  2. Next, takes a red silk handkerchief from his pocket, vanishes, and reproduces it from leg, then puts it on the barrel of a gun, fires, handkerchief vanishes, and is reproduced from performer's collar.

  3. Produces from a small drum a number of silk flags, which are transformed into two very large flags suspended across the stage.

  4. A small bath is covered with a cloth and an egg thrown into bath through a hole in the centre of cloth, which is then removed, and several ducks produced from bath.

  5. Next follows the Chinese rice bowls and glass of water vanished from a handkerchief combination.

  6. A plant is then produced in a pot on a glass-top table.

  7. The table-cloth pulled off a table without upsetting the articles on table, then four eggs are placed on rings on a tray on top of four glasses. The tray is knocked smartly away, the eggs falling into the glasses. The eggs used are produced from an assistant's mouth.

  8. A small cube is shown, at a pistol shot it enlarges into eight times the original size (square measure), a lady then steps out from the cube. One chair is made into two, a lady sits on one, Goldin on the other. Wine poured from bottle into glasses, Goldin changes his wine into confetti, lady dances. Two Salvationists (man and woman) now march across the stage, beating drum and tambourine. A pair of large scales are brought on, lady gets on scale and is covered with cloth, and weighed by Goldin. Salvationists return, Goldin hides behind a cloak, then comes out and fires pistol. Lady from scale vanishes, female Salvationist removes cloak showing that she is the lady that was on the scale. Male Salvationist removes his cloak showing that he is Goldin.

  9. Kellar's flower trees produced from a cone on two side tables is the next trick. Second pot, after cone is placed over it, is brought on to a table in front of stage. After the trick the third table collapses and closes up in the form of a hand-box, and is carried off by Goldin.

  10. Aga, the floating lady illusion, follows. Goldin walks away, leaving the lady suspended in air.

  11. Lady next gets into a big cannon, which is fired at a box slung up to the roof of theatre. The box is then brought down on ropes to stage and opened, when a second box is taken out of the first, and a third box from the second one. Lady is discovered in the last box.

  12. Lady tied in a sack, then suspended from a scaffold pistol fired, empty sack drops to floor showing that the lady has vanished.

  13. Large cage on a cross-shaped stand is now brought on, Goldin gets in cage, assistant in cloak and hood pulls curtains down, then goes off to side for pistol, comes back, fires pistol, curtains withdrawn showing a lady in cage instead of Goldin, assistant throws off cloak and shows that he is Goldin.

  14. Next a rabbit is produced from a paper cone.

  15. A number of ducks are placed in a bucket, covered by a sheet of paper. Ducks are then vanished. Another duck is vanished after being wrapped in newspaper. The ducks are reproduced from an ordinary-looking wash-tub filled with water.