Monsieur Philippe, at the Strand Theatre, 1845. Magic show on the London stage. 'M. Philippe, the taken the Strand Theatre for a series of "Soirees Mysterieuses," and with every apparent chance of making a more successful entreprise therein than any of the preceding lessees. All the principal tricks of his former entertainments are introduced; and some of them are perfectly inexplicable, resulting from the combination of matchless manual dexterity with mechanical contrivances of the greatest ingenuity. We need not recapitulate them; but we can, with the utmost confiden
Monsieur Philippe, at the Strand Theatre, 1845. Magic show on the London stage. 'M. Philippe, the taken the Strand Theatre for a series of "Soirees Mysterieuses," and with every apparent chance of making a more successful entreprise therein than any of the preceding lessees. All the principal tricks of his former entertainments are introduced; and some of them are perfectly inexplicable, resulting from the combination of matchless manual dexterity with mechanical contrivances of the greatest ingenuity. We need not recapitulate them; but we can, with the utmost confidence, recommend all our readers to go and behold M. Philippe's very clever delusions. He is certainly the King of is novel and startling; and his last strange tour - that of the gold fish and "grande menagerie" - sends everybody away completely bewildered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.
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