The Public Ledger

BLACKSTONE CLOSES BIG ENGAGEMENT TODAY

Interest In Great Magician at Washington Growing Daily—Large Audience Expected on Last Night.

Judging from the spirited advance sale for the Great Blackstone company's farewell tonight at the Washington Opera House the man who possesses the cleverest pair of hands in the world is going to play to another capacity audience. The sale was greater than all expectations and indicates that an interest is being manifested in the engagement of the superman of mysticism that is going to stand as a record.

After all, who is there that does not just dote on being surprised and fooled? Who does not enjoy sitting in a theatre and watching the work of a mystifier. confident in his or her own ability to detect his methods? Who does not honestly believe that the man or woman does not live that can successfully fool him all of the time.

And who does not delight in trying to work out in his or her own way the solutions of mystifying illusions, transformations and strange and morbid human disappearances?

Once the baffling performance of the Great Blackstone and his clever company, mostly girls, was seen every person in town was talking about his really great feats of mysticism, advancing theories as to their execution.

His field of work includes every art that has been employed on the stage of mystify an audience. While the arts might be termed old his achievements are 90 per cent. new, being his own creations and inventions and fully protected against infringement by less original and unscrupulous performers.