The Davenport Collection
- a growing resource on magic and entertainment history

Miss Marion Melville

Advertisement for David Devant’s Magical Seances

Advertisement for David Devant’s Magical Seances

This impressive advertising is to promote Devant’s ‘Brilliant and highly refined drawing-room entertainment’. The excellent portrait photographs, signed Meisenbach, show Devant and his young wife. Today we know that they were not actually married at this time.