Word: illusionism
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The Grand Street Follies are built upon the eminently sound principle of burlesquing all recent attractions at Manhattan theatres. A sophisticate must loudly giggle, when Albert Carroll comes on the stage impersonating Laurette Taylor or when Dorothy Sands pretends she is Ina Claire, lest neighbors in the audience suffer from...
Two great goals those Eastman scientists have ahead of them and toward which progress has already been made-pictures that reproduce objects in their natural colors, and that give the impression of depth as well as of height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are...
Paradoxically light was being thrown upon Sir Henri himself, last week, from Manhattan. There President Richard Airey of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., a Royal Dutch subsidiary, declared: "I wish to dispel a popular illusion that Sir Henri Deterding has changed his nationality from Dutch to British. . . . Living principally in England...
There should be reasons why this is in spots the worst, and in others, one of the best plays come to Boston in some time. In the first place Mr. Kelly has caught an idea which has great dramatic possibilities. Though his plot may be totally unreal, it is possible...
Faust, like the necromancers of his day, gazes into a crystal globe, in which the figure of Marguerite appears, just as it might be conjured up by Faust's own fancy. The philosopher declares for pleasure at any price. The stage is darkened for a moment, and there appear seated...