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– Newsreel of the 1938 British Ring Convention.
– Radio dice box.
– The Great Modern Psuedourgos Dr Lynn.
– Is it just a puzzle or an entertaining trick?
– The Oswald Williams Noah’s Ark Illusion – now also on film.
– And have you seen . . . Eddie Dawes in his own words.
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This is a good example of the popular style of advertisement in which the performer’s name – in this case Dr Lynn – is featured many times. The same style was used by Maskelyne and Cooke at the Egyptian Hall, for example see N1476.
It was in 1875 that Dr Lynn invited Buatier de Kolta to perform in some of the slots he had at the Egyptian Hall. This was de Kolta’s introduction to London. At the time, Dr Lynn performed in the Large Hall. Subsequently, J.N. Maskelyne took the lease on the Large Hall.
The venue is the Egyptian Large Hall. The images for this programme are distorted because the programme had been cut and pasted onto a card. It was therefore not possible to scan them.
The venue is the Egyptian Large Hall. The programme details differ in two ways from programme N3159. In N3159 the venue is given as Egyptian Hall which is printed in a different type face. The second difference is that in N3158, at the bottom of page 4, Russell Court is incorrectly spelled as Russel Court.
The venue is the Egyptian Large Hall. There is a Times article on the cover dated 26 November 1874. This means the programme cannot be earlier than late 1874. This programme is almost the same as item N3156.
The venue is the Egyptian Large Hall. There is a Times article on the cover dated 26 November 1874. This means the programme cannot be earlier than late 1874. At first sight this programme appears to be a duplicate of N3157. However the Times article on the cover is different and this programme includes mention of the Misses Gerbaldi at the bottom of page 3. N3157 does not include this.
The venue is the Egyptian Large Hall. The cover announces a change of programme to include Japanese and Chinese Marvels. The probable date for the programme is 1874, because the first of the press opinions on page 4 is from The Times of 12 August, which the newspaper archive confirms is 1874.
The handbill includes details of Dr Lynn’s “Bi-diurnal Representations”. This is his way of saying there are two performances each day. Students of Dr Lynn will know he loved long, fantastic words.
Unfortunately only pages 3 and 4 of this programme survived. At some point in the past the programme was torn down the middle and pages 1 and 2 were lost. Nevertheless, the details of Part II of Dr Lynn’s programme are visible and we are told that his book How it’s done (see N3149) is available from the attendant.
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