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453 ... THE INFERNAL CAKE WALK ... 5 lengths
A scene in Hades gradually dissolving to that representing a grotto, in which appear many little devils among the flames. Satan, in disguise returning from earth, throws his cloak into the flames, and commands the inhabitants of the infernal regions to perform the cake walk. The dancers (performers from the Olympian Theatre, Paris) execute the cake walk among the flames, while the jack-'o lanterns dance upon their ln ads in soace. Two negroes fetch the cake won hy the dancers. The cake bursts into pieces. In its place is seen another grotesque dancer, who does the cake walk, while his arms and legs detached from his body, each member continuing the dance. At length all of Satan's "boarders" being wrought up to the highest pitch, dance like mad, surrounded by a circle of fire. Satan, in order to put a stop to these mad doings in his realm, causes all the dancers to vanish in the flames, and himself disappears into the ground, but the infernal flames, having caught the dancing fever, in their turn go through the evolutions of the cake walk. A fine subject, coloured.
One of the Dressing Rooms oj the Theatre Studio
458 ... THE SHALLOW TRICK BOX ... 2) lengths
A conjuror desiring to use two chairs, beckons them and they waltz towards him on their own accord. Two sheets of glass are then placed across the backs of the chairs, and the conjuror after displaying a very shallow box, places it upon the glass plate. He then assists a young lady to climb into the box. and standing up, her feet only being covered by the sides of the box, gradually descends and disappears into the latter, a