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Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)

Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 301

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ciirtain opening to the palm garden is kept lowered,and it is raised only during the intermissions, or when special acrobatic, gvm-nastic, or animal acts are in j)rogress. A passageway leads from the audito-rium to the palm garden, which are both accessible to the audience at all times. This is the… … SOME REMARKABLE STAGES, ANCJE^T AM) MUDERX. 281 CURIOS PivoTp:r) theater. One of the most ingenious of tlie ancient theaters of which we have anyrecord is that devised by Curio, which is described by Pliny. In the Inilf cen-tury before Christ, a Avealtliy Roman citizen coustrncted a theater capable…

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