1912 Richmond VA handbill programme famous magician Howard Thurston

The Academy of Music of Richmond Va presents an evening with Magician Howard Thurston with his many tricks, and a play on the capture of Pancho Villa.

One week, commencing Monday May 6^th, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday

…the Most Bewildering Array of Tricks, Illusions and Scientific Problems in the History of the World..Please consider this entertainment as a visit to Fairyland..

PART 1 Thurston the Magician

1. Opening
2. Original Card Passes
3. Aerial Fishing
4. Rooster’s Head
5. The Levitation of Princess Karnac

THE GREAT HYPNOTIC SCENE

1. Mystic Rabbits
2. The Spirit Cabinet
3. The Glass Trunk
4. The Vampires
5. An Invisible Flight
6. Concluding…comedy experiment entitled “A Bit of Fun”

PART II

1. Flags of the Allies
2. The Wandering Handkerchief
3. Do the Spirits come back?
4. Theodore Bamberg – Europe’s Greatest Shadowist
5. Villa Captured – A mystical sketch...introducing a realistic race between an automobile and a motorcycle

PART III

1. Pigeon Pie
2. The Mystery “Oh”
3. The Haunted Screen
4. Shadows of Life
5. The Bangkok Bungalow
6. The Lady and the Boy
7. Finale – The Triple Mystery, the most daring illusion ever attempted

Newsprint paper.

Horizontal folds, some tears on folds. Paper browned.

9” x 2 ¾”

Howard Thurston (July 20, 1869 – April 13, 1936) was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio, United States. His childhood was unhappy, and he ran away to join the circus, where his future partner Harry Kellar also performed. Thurston was deeply impressed after he attended magician Alexander Herrmann's magic show and was determined to equal his work. He eventually became the most famous magician of his time. Thurston's traveling magic show was the biggest one of all; it was so large that it needed eight train cars to transport his road show.

Thurston became well known for performing a floating lady illusion known as the "Levitation of Princess Karnac".