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Owen Clark’s 4 page OWEN brochure

After a successful stage career performing in many parts of the world, Clark developed a new act with gigantic illusions using the name Owen. This brochure shows drawings of many of these illusions and it is well worth looking at it in detail. The brochure says the act required ten assistants and six tons of apparatus. Although this may be somewhat exaggerated, there is no doubt that it was an expensive act to tour and the financial state of variety theatres meant that the act was too expensive to book. It was a bold experiment but a financial failure.

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Size 4 pages, each 230 x 290mm.
Date Date unknown but probably early 1920s. The brochure mentions a performance at St. George's Hall in October 1919.
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Ref no N3384 Ep.Other123