Maro: Prince of Magic

              THE BROCKWAY LECTURE BUREAU
 6101 PENN AVENUE. 
PITTSBURG, PA.



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Maro PRINCE OF MAGIC




Announcement



I
N presenting to the Lyceum public that eminent magician, musician, shadowgraphist and artist, MARO, we feel that any encomiums that we might utter would be out of place and unnecessary.  Maro's eleven years of experience before the public insures that he is too well and favorably known to require any extended praise on our part.  We take pride in saying, however, that his entertainment has given such eminent satisfaction the past season that we have again secured his exclusive management for the coming one.  The many personal letters that we have received from committees speak most enthusiastically of his work.  It is seldom that such versatility is embodied in one personality, and an audience is left in doubt whether it is as a magician, musician, shadowgraphist or artist that he excels.  Maro is above all an inventor of new and difficult feats of legerdemain, and this, combined with an easy and graceful stage presence and a bright and witty flow of language, makes a combination that is more than appreciated by his audiences.  A glance at the specimen program will convince committees that for an entertainment that will draw and please, Maro stands preeminent.  He will be accompanied by his wife and two trained attendants who will assist him in his wonderful entertainment, and take charge of nearly a ton of baggage of paraphernalia.  It will doubtless not be amiss to state here that Maro carries with him the most magnificent and expensive accessories in the way of stage furniture that the world has ever seen.  Maro's agreeable, fearless, yet painstaking methods, his scholarly study of his different arts, combined with unceasing practice, makes his entertainment an enjoyment to the most cultured and refined audience.


FigureYours Truly E. Maro



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Specimen Program



Part I



IT FILLED ME WITH WONDER AND AMUSEMENT




FORTY MINUTES OF BEWILDERMENT AND HUMOROUS SITUATIONS WITH 
MARO AS A MAGICIAN
 IN A BOUQUET OF MYSTERIES




NATURES LAWS SET ASIDE IN THIS MOST ASTOUNDING EXHIBITION OF DIGITAL DEXTERITY.  MARO STANDS ABOLUTELY WITHOUT A PEER




Part II MAGIC of the ORIENT



During this part of the program Maro will don the costume of the ancient sorcerers or high Priests of India and give a most realistic and wonderful exhibition of magic as performed by the famed Fakirs of India.  His entire company will assist by introducing music of the Orient produced with genuine East India musical instruments.  Making all together a most weird and fascinating performance.




Part III MARO as a Musician Artist and Shadowgraphist



It is during this part of the program, probably, that Maro illustrates most forcibly his wonderful versatility—first by playing upon various musical instruments, including the

JAVONA

Maro's grand musical novelty.  This instrument is sixteen feet long and contains one hundred and fifty four pipes and is played by four people; also he will perform on the one stringed

GOGGLEPEG

conceded by all to be the most voluminous toned instrument in the world.

AN ART SEANCE

During which Maro with a few bold strokes of colors draws and paints large and realistic pictures of the impressionistic school.

SHADOWGRAPHY

The art of making with the hands most amusing and grotesque silhouttes of animals, faces, figures, etc.


Part IV



IF THIS BE MAGIC LET IT BE AN ART.
—
A Winter's Tale; V. III.




FORTY MINUTES MORE WITH THE MAGICIAN MARO MERRIMENT BORN OF BEWILDERMENT




A.


Simple Simon Outdone


B.


Multum in Parvo


C.


The Fairy Omelet


D.


The Fiery Dragon


E.


The Aluminum Rings


F.


A Comedy of Errors


G.


The Marvelous Hoop


H.


The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg




INCLUDING THE INEXPLICABLE 
Cabinet of Balsamo
 AND MARO'S TWENTIETH CENTURE MARVEL 
Flags of All Nations


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MARO AS A MAGICIAN



M
ARO appears to have paraphrased the old saying into 
Jack of Many Trades, Master of All.
  After seeing his entertainment you are in doubt whether it is as musician, artist or magician that he excels.  As magician of the kind known as prestidigitateur (or slight-of-hand) he stands in the world of magic alone and unapproached.  Inanimate objects under his skillful fingers appear to become endowed with mind.  A block of wood in plain sight of the audience changes itself into an orange and from an orange back into a block of wood.  Flowers grow without earth, air or cultivation.  Not one, but bushels of them.  A handkerchief, through the mistake of his assistant, is burned to cinders, but by a mystical incantation, is restored whole and unharmed to its owner.  Gold and silver appear to be fruits of the air, to be plucked from invisible trees by the hands of the magician.  A hatful of it is carefully counted and placed in the hands of some poverty-stricken on-looker, increases and grows at the rate of a thousand per cent per minute.  Ribbons
 are produced from a tiny handkerchief and go shooting out over the heads of the audience in concentric and serpentine folds and circles, showering over the heads of the bewildered spectators a miniature snowstorm, and, being gathered into the hands of the magician, are transformed in the twinkling of an eye into a large japanese umbrella.  Two doves, one pure white, the other black as night, are beheaded.  Through an accident the head of the white dove is placed on the body of the black, and vice versa, and after more incantations the doves fly away unharmed.


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Patriotism is exemplified in the production of the flags of all nations, apparently from nowhere—hundreds of small flags are produced and scattered around the stage; from these larger ones grow, and still larger, until our own Star Spangled Banner appears floating in the air, covering almost the entire stage.  In the wonderful hand of Maro, apparently taken from the atmosphere, appears a ball, with a slight turn of the hand another, and another, until six are held up to the astonished gaze of the audience.  With the one hand held in plain view, one of them disappears, another fades away, and another, until the hand is perfectly empty.  A small glove must have a piece of the cake that Alice in Wonderland used, for it can grow from the size a Chicago belle uses to the infant's first hand covering.  A plain square of Egyptian cloth produces innumerable bowls of water in which gold fish disport themselves, one globe holding a water pail of water.  Eight or ten solid silver rings link and unlink themselves, form chains and geometrical figures, and from an innocent victim inveigled onto the platform are produced thousands of yards of ribbons, blocks of wood and other articles, including two large white ducks which quack their disapproval of the entire proceedings.  Three live rabbits are produced from an empty hat, and one is tossed high in the air, never to descend; of the two remaining one is rolled into the other and then found hiding in the coat of a spectator, and the two are sent to join their brother in the lambent atmosphere.




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Accessories de Magique





Extracts from Press Notices



Memphis, Times


—Maro's mysterious fun highly entertained the audience.




Ft. Wayne, Ind., Morning Journal


—Tremendous audience—Maro is refined, graceful and versatile.  The audience roared.




Baltimore Morning Herald


—Greatly amused and astonished his audience.




Chicago Times-Herald


—The cleverest young Magician of the day.




Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Herald


—Maro, the magician, is a wonder; his illusions were as fine as ever witnessed in Jacksonville




New Orleans Daily States


—Maro, the conjurer, evoked much applause by his clever tricks.




Duluth News


—The magic by Prof. Maro last evening was the finest ever witnessed in this city.




Cleveland, Ohio, Y. M. C. A. Journal


—Maro is a 
smooth
 gentleman and fooled them all.




Toledo, Ohio, Commercial


—His tricks were decided novelties; all were very cleverly enacted.




Eureka Springs, Ark., Daily Times-Echo


—Maro made flowers grow without water, sun or seed, and they grew in profusion before your very eyes.  How did he do it?  No one knows.




Quincy Daily Herald


—Maro does his mystifying tricks more openly than any living magician.




New York Talent


—The most refined expert and scientific prestidigitateur before the public.




Denver Rocky Mountain News


—As fine as any one on the American stage.




Baltimore American


—Maro has a jovial manner; delighted a large audience.



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Maro's Wonderful Left Hand





Amherst, Mass. March 17, 1900




Out of nearly one hundred entertainments given during the ten sesasons that this Course has been running, not one has given more complete satisfaction and been more heartily enjoyed than the one given this winter by Maro.  The house was crowded and the delight of the audience was unbounded.




Wm. I. Fletcher Sec. Union Lecture Course






WM. A. HUBBARD, JR. PRESIDENT




R. S. FAVIOUR TREASURER




F. L. STARRETT GENERAL SECRETARY





The Young Men's Christian Association of Rochester.



BUILDING AND GENERAL OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

134 South Avenue


BRANCHES RAILROAD, 208 CENTRAL AVE. COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER STUDENT, THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY




Rochester, N. Y.,
 April 5, 1901.




Maro is great.  The entertainment given by him in our Course was the best we have had, and that is saying a good deal.  We had never seen anything in his line that approached the high class variety and number of excellent tricks he performed before our eyes.  Anyone desiring a first class entertainment would do well to get Maro.




F. L. Starrett, General Secretary.






MAGIC OF THE ORIENT



MARO'S very latest sensation




A weird and wonderful exhibition of magic as performed by the East India Fakirs.



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MARO as an East India Fakir




Astounding productions of bulky objects from seemingly nowhere concluding with the

INSTANTANEOUS DISAPPEARANCE

of the magician himself



MARO
 will wear an elaborate sorcerer's gown and impersonate as nearly as possible the manner and methods of ancient necromancers.  His entire company will assist by rendering on genuine East India musical instruments weird music of the East.






Extracts from Personal Letters



Facsimile from Sec'y Wevill of the Philadelphia Y. M. C. A.



CENTRAL BRANCH OF THE 
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
, FIFTEENTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS





Committee of Management



CHARLES W. FREEDLEY


WM. M. LONGSTRETH


EDGAR D. FARIES


JAMES A. DEVELIN


G. W. HANSELL


HORACE PETITT


ALBERT E. KENNEDY


W. A. N. DORLAND, M. D.


JOHN W. HENDERSON


SAM'L. T. KERR


H. C. FRANCIS

 W. BAILEY


T. R. COGGESHALL




EDWIN J. HOUSTON, CHAIRMAN.


H. S. P. NICHOLS, VICE CHAIRMAN.


W. T. ROBINSON, TREASURER.


W. K. KRIPS, RECORDING SECRETARY.


HALSEY HAMMOND, SECRETARY.




PHILADELPHIA January 28. 98




Maro the Magician - Maro, the Musician — Maro, the Artist, and yet but one Maro.  Enthusiastic audience.-  Unanimous verdict.  
He exces them all




ThosHWevell
Manager Association Course
Y.M.C.A. Philadelphia






Rev. Edgar F. Farrill, Chairman People's Course, Lebanon, N. H.
—
Of all the talent appearing in our course none gave more personal satisfaction than did the gentlemanly and versatile Maro.



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A. S. Boyer, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Canton, O.
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He is a marvel in his magic.  His musical numbers are the most pleasing I have listened to.




ASBoyer, Gen'l Sec'y Y.M.C.A.




C. S. Alexander, Principal State Normal, Fitchburg, Mass,
—
Maro was the greatest attraction in our course; he drew the largest house of all.




C.S. Alexander Chairman of Entertainment Com




Frank Cheney, Secretary Elkhart, Ind., Lecture Course
—
Pleased beyond expectation.  Maro's engagement was one of the good things.  We want him again.




Frank Cheney, Sec.




Edwin W. Bullock, Entertainment Committee, Pawtucket Club, Haverhill, Mass,
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We have never had an entertainment at the Pawtucket Club that gave such universal satisfaction as did Maro's.  The one comment was, 
when can we have Maro again.




Edwin W. Bullock




Rev. J. T. Chyoweth, Sheboygan, Wis,
—
Maro is as near right as it is possible for man to be as an entertainer of his fellow men.  The audience simply gave themselves up to his magic.  He is the deftest, the daintest, the most pleasing of deceivers, and men and women love the deception he practices.




J. T. Chyoweth




F. H. Prescott, Secretary Lecture Association, Peabody, Kan.
—
He simply has captured our people and his second appearance on our course has already been asked for by our patrons.




Wm. G. Rehl, Chairman Lecture Committee, Zanesville, O.
—
If you wish to make money, save labor and break the record as to the size of the audience, secure Maro on your course.




Wm. G. Rehl.




Major R. H. Pratt, Superintendent, Carlisle, Pa.
—
Maro,s wonderful entertainment before our eight hundred Indian boys and girls and their instructors was pronounced by every one to be the very best in the history of the school.




R. H. Pratt




D. F. Graham, President Y. M. C. A, Freeport, Ill.
—
The audience was enthusiastic in praise of him.




B. L. D'Ooge, President Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich.
—
We consider Maro one of the best entertainers before the public.  His second appearance was even more successful than the first.




B. L. D'Ooge



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Extracts from Press Notices



Decatur, Ill., Review


—The best number in the course—largest crowd ever in the Tabernacle.




Albany, N. Y., The Argus


—Maro showed a wonderful versatility, being equally at home in magic, art and music.




St. Louis Bulletin


—Prof. Maro was a great treat.  He proved himself master of his art and a great entertainer.


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Winnepeg, Man., North-Western


—He has a pleasing manner, a fine presence, and is a clever magician—a wonderful palmist and a polished and finished musician.




Scranton, Pa., Tribune


—Maro made a hit—a decided hit.




Sandusky, Ohio, Daily Register


—Maro is a man of remarkable versatility.




Richmond, Va., Leader


—A great evening of merriment and bewilderment.




Montpelier, Vt., Daily Journal


—Maro is a star in his profession and gave a wonderful performance.




San Francisco Chronicle


—He is an artist, if magic is an art.




St. Joseph Herald


—He has mastered the art of magic.




Allentown, Pa., Daily City Item


—A better entertainment or more highly pleased audience never left the Lyric than that of last night.  Maro's versatility is wonderful.




Wilkesbarre, Pa., Times


—No entertainment could have given greater satisfaction.  One is justified in designating him a wonder.




Williamsport, Pa., Sun


—An entertainment of high standard.  Maro proved himself a master.




Fall River, Mass., Globe


—The Prince of Magic.  A unique performance.  Audience extremely well pleased.




Quincy, Illinois


—The best we have ever heard.




Kansas City Journal


—He has won a high place among refined performers.




G. G. Mahy, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Sedalia, Mo.


—Maro's magic, I am convinced, is a new departure in Association work.




Lee Mighell, Chairman Y. M. C. A. Course, Aurora, Ill.


—An enormous audience on Maro's second appearance here.  I consider him the best novelty that can be secured for a Lyceum course.




Chicago Saturday Evening Herald


—Signor Maro is a prestidigitateur or great cleverness, whose tricks in magic have won well-deserved praise.




New Orleans Daily Item


—Maro is a master of the art of mystifying.




Patterson, N. J., Call


—Maro, the versatile, was a great success.  He kept his audience in good humor from start to finish.




Rochester, N. Y., Democrat and Chronicle


—All his tricks were ar-tically executed and greatly amazed his audience.




Patterson, N. J., Call


—Maro displayed truly remarkable versatility.




Cincinnati, Ohio, Commercial Tribune


—Maro held his audience in open-eyed wonderment and delight.  He is a real wizard.




Milwaukee, Wis,, Sentinel


—Maro, the magician, entertained a packed house, responding to repeated encores with obliging grace.




Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Daily Eagle


—He captured his big audience.  He is the prince of mystery.




San Antonio, Tex., Daily Light


—Maro, the magician, is equal to the greatest.




Chicago Herald


—A very clever prestidigitateur, very skillful.




Chicago Inter Ocean


—A clever magician—very entertaining.




Seattle Post Intelligencer


—A performer of rare merit.




Des Moines Daily News


—He stands without a peer.




Minneapolis Tribune


—He turned from art to music, from that to magic; quite as much at home with one as with the other.




St. Paul Pioneer Press


—Maro is young and blond, with a delightful foreign naivete, and plays very effectively his part of alternately amusing and mystifying the audience.




Minneapolis Tribune


—Maro did some wonderful tricks.




L. P. Mumma, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Hamilton, O.
—
He is all he was billed and more.  All were delighted.




Davenport, Ia., Republican


—Maro is cleverer and more original than any magician that ever appeared here.




Troy Daily Record


—A clever fascinating magician and proficient musician.




Nashville, Tenn., American


—Maro is undoubtedly the prince of prestidigitateurs.




Chicago Blade


—As a mystifier Maro certainly ranks with the greatest conjurors.




St. Paul Dispatch


—He turned everything which he touched into garlands and bunches of roses, creating a veritable flower show on the stage.




Columbus, Ohio, Daily Courier


—He received almost continuous applause.




Indianapolis, Ind., Journal


—Clever and versatile—a leader in his class.






Facsimile from Prof. C. L. Van Cleve, Troy, Ohio




In the twenty years and longer that Troy has enjoyed a lecture course no entertainer has been so universally praised as Maro.  A more refined entertainment would be hard to secure and for pure, unalloed fun, frolic and wonderment he is 
ne plus ultra.




C. L. Van Cleve — Sect. Course Com
Mitterman





Facsimile from Rev. A. T. Wolff.



First Presbyterian Church...




Sioux Falls, South Dak. Mar, 20, 1899.




REV A. T. WOLFF. D. D., PASTOR




Maro was the crowning number of the great 
People's Entertainment Course
 of 1898—99,




Maro is a prodigy, his magic is fine, his music is wonderful, his lightning artist work is superb.  We shall certainly have Maro in our course next season.




A.T. Wolff




Sec'y People's intertainment course






Facsimile from Sec'y Goddard, Minneapolis, Y. M. C. A.




Maro's marvellous entertainment of magic music and art completely captivated everybody.  He had us wrapped in wonder for two hours.  His performance is clean wholesome and drawing.  We count him a Master of Magicians




Harry P. Goddard




M/  Mch 3, 1900





Facsimile from Geo. W. Mahaffey



BOSTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION




March 17, 1900.




Mr. Maro is certainly a versatile man.  As a magician he is sure to please, and as a musician, artist and shadowgraphist he is also a great success.  His entertainment in our Star Course was both refined and pleasing affording an evening of much enjoyment to the large audience present.




Geo. W. Mahaffey
General Secretary.






MARO AS A MUSICIAN



M
ARO has long been recognized as one of our leading artists on stringed instruments, and for a number of seasons has been the only artist before the public who has recognized the beauty of the Portuguese national instrument known as the Bandora, and has lately been rousing his audiences to enthusiasm on an instrument which in the hand of an ordinary player would create nothing but merriment; he calls it the one-string Syrian Gogglepeg.  In the hands of this skillfull manipulator it produces music that is in its effect electrifying—from the plaintive wail of a violin to apparently the full harmony of a large orchestra.  The music swells and fades away, leaving the audience spell-bound with the magic of the instrument and wonder-struck at the skill of the player.  And then, as if this were not enough, the Terze Guitar, the Mandola, each in turn, at the touch of the master hand, entrance, electrify and amaze.  It would seem a waste of time to mention more, and yet as the cloyed epicure saves his choicest dainty till the last, so too, with Maro, who this season presents for the first time to the American public the Javona, the musical marvel of the age.  Maro, accompanied by an assistant, by his masterly touch produces sounds likened only to the grandest pipe organ in the world, or is it an Æolian Harp?  Nothing describes the thunderous, and anon delicate harmony this wonderful instrument is made to produce.





Facsimile from John C. Lynch



YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. MARKET AND TWENTIETH STREETS WHEELING, W. VA.




J. L. DICKEY, M.D. PRESIDENT HOWARD HAZLETT TREASURER.




JOHN C. LYNCH, GENERAL SECRETARY E. J. STATE, PHYSICAL DIRECTOR.




April 12, 1901.




Maro, the magician, gave the most fascinating entertainment in an eminently satisfactory course.




He is exceedingly graceful, Exceptionally clever, wonderfully versatil and thoroughly captivating.




John C. Lynch



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MARO



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THE JAVONA—Maro's wonderful musical novelty





Extracts from Personal Letters



Chas, H. Neff, Chairman Lecture Course, Anderson, Ind.
—
In all the nine years of our course no number has given more universal satisfaction than did Maro.  It was novel and new and hundreds have asked for his return.




ChasHNeff




F. B. Hoagland, Secretary Y. M. C. A. Paterson, N. J.
—
Maro
 the versatile genius whose art, music and magic have charmed the multitudes may justly lay claim to the 
Premier of Entertainers.
  He stands alone—has no rivals, no imitators—there is but one 
Maro.




F.B.Hoagland




J. E. Wooters, President Du Quoin Lecture Association, Du Quoin, Ill.
—
Maro is simply 
out of sight
 as a magician.  We opened our course with him and I have scored a big success by so doing.




W. A. Smalley, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
—
Maro's talented work as an artist, wonderful skill as a musician, and new and unique presentation of the mysteries of magic gave our people a most enjoyable evening.




WMSmally




T. S. Thomas, General Secretary Y. M. C. A., Piqua, O.
—
Your magic is most beautiful, your manner most captivating, and your program, entirely, highly entertaining.  I can cheerfully commend you to the Associations.



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Albrecht Reher, General Secretary, Quincy, Ill.
—
The audience was so pleased that when the last piece on the program had been given there was no move made by any to leave the hall and it was necessary to tell them that the performance had come to an end.




N. E. Dodge, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Warren, Pa.
—
Maro is without doubt the cleverest of them all.  Warren wants to see him again.




N.E. Dodge




J. W. Gibson, Secretary Eldorado Lyceum, Eldorado, Kan,
—
Your magic and music were the best ever seen or heard in this place, is the universal verdict.




O.C. Eidman, President Alumni Association, Belleville, Ill.
—
The best entertainment ever given here, was the unanimus comment of the crowded house which is anxiously awaiting Maro's return.




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J. F. Kates, Secretary Y. M. C. A. Winona, Minn.
—
Maro afforded intense delight to all.  He drew the largest box office receipts of any entertainment in our last two courses.




Rev. M. C. Mines, Pastor Free Baptist Church, Evansville, Wis.
—
I have frequently, while a missionary in India, witnessed the magic of their celebrated magicians, but they perform few tricks so wonderfully as you do.  Truly, magic in your hands is art.




H. G. Kamp, Manager Lecture Course, Evansville, Ind.
—
Never before was an audience so well entertained, and by special request of the whole audience, have booked him for next season.  Maro excels them all.





Facsimile from Sec'y Pierce of Trenton, N. J., Y. M. C. A.



THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, OF TRENTON, N. J.




JOHN A. CAMPBELL, PRESIDENT LYMAN L. PIERCE, GENERAL SECRETARY




Trenton N.J. Mar 14,99




Maro came.  We saw, marveled at what we saw, doubted our own eyes.  He conquered completely




Two hours of wholesome entertainment without a weak spot




A great audience voted him the most popular attraction on an exceptionally fine course—a whole company in himself




Reengaged before he left the hall




Lyman L. Pierce






Maro As an Artist



M
ARO is also gaining a well-earned reputation as an artist.  During his program he gives what he calls an art seance, in which he delights the audience with his rapid and bold strokes in the impressionistic school of art.  He produces rapidly and surely a beautiful marine, and before the audience is through admiring, with a few more strokes the same marine is turned into a storm at sea; and again, the pale cold moonlight is streaming over the waters, producing a calm, still effect, which in contrast to the former turbulent scene produces thunders of applause.  Now it is that the satiated audience, bewildered by the feats of magic, entranced by the sweet strains of music and charmed by the picture, exclaims, 
Enough!
  But no.  There is more.



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Facsimile from Secretary Locher, of Newcastle, Pa., Y. M. C. A.



Young Men's Christian Association
 NEW CASTLE, PA.




WM. W. LOCHER, 
GENERAL SECRETARY
 FRANK H. AYRES, 
PHYSICAL DIRECTOR




March 20, 1899




The wonderful, incomprehensible and fascinating Maro.




He came, entertained, delighted, bewildered, enthused and amazed the vast audience 
He is incomparable
 was the verdict




No hall in the city will be large enough to hold the audience than will want to hear him when he returns




W. W. Locher Gen'l Sect'y, Y.M.C.A.






Maro as a Shadowgraphist



M
ARO has during the past five years been devoting his wonderfull powers to a mastery of shadowgraphy, and this season offers the amusement-loving public for the first time the result of this long study and practice.  With his two naked hands, with sleeves rolled back to the elbows, aided by a powerful electric light, all in full view of the audience, he causes faces, forms, houses, caricatures and animals in silhouette to appear in bewildering variety upon a large white sheet stretched at the back of the stage.  You may have seen others try this.  See Maro do it and you see the master of shadow pictures.  In this 
fin-de-siecle
 age an entertainer must be versatile, and 
Maro
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Extracts from Press Notices



Pittsburg, Pa., Dispatch


—Mr. Maro is a great conjurer.  He accompanies his tricks with a flow of easy talk that makes him very pleasing.




St. Paul, Minn., Globe


—To say that Maro is less than the greatest would be a figure of speech that would do Maro an injustice.




Vicksburg, Miss., Herald


—By far the most enjoyable entertainment that has been seen upon the stage of the Waluut Street Theatre.



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San Francisco Music and Drama


—Prof. Maro gives an entertainment that is skilled, astonishing and interesting.




St. Louis Republic


—Maro was great in his high-class prestidigitation; he performed some remarkable feats.




Little Rock, Arkansas


—Young Maro bids fair to outrival the greatest magicians of the day.




Burlington, Ia., Gazette


—His accomplishments in his magic are truly rare and mysterious.  He is certainly an artfst in his line.




Sioux Falls, S. D., Press


—Taking everything in consideration Maro was the best attraction of the whole season.  Theatre packed to the doors.




Lexington, Ky., Herald


—The beautiful performance of Maro could not be surpassed.  He was most delightful.




Providence Evening Bulletin


—Maro is an adept in his various lines.




Philadelphia, Pa., Times


—Maro, society's magician, bewildered the senses of an audience of over a thousand people.  He is a wonder.




Bridgeport, Conn., Morning Telegram


—A most remarkable performance by a man of wonderful versatility—far exceeding in interest anything of the kind ever given here.




New Orleans Picayune


—Prof. Maro's feats of magic were very fine.  His deftness is wonderful.




Providence, R, I., Journal


—Standing room only.  An unmistakably popular and deft performance.




New Haven, Conn., Morning Journal


—Maro combines the rare qualities of magician, musician and artist, and certainly did some wonderful things.




Columbus, Ohio, State Journal


—The audience was highly entertained and would willingly have stayed an hour longer.




Eufaula, Ala., Daily Times


—He certainly verified his very high reputation; the audience was lost in wonder and delight.




Burlington, Ia., Hawkeye


—Maro has few, it any, equals as a prestidigitateur.  He astounded and amused his audience.




Manchester, N. H., Mirror and American


—A versatile young man of pleasing manner and clever execution.




Boston, Mass., Journal


—His feats were truly marvelous and showed the hand of a great artist.




Wilkesbarre, Pa., Record


—A versatile man—does many things and does them well.




Ft. Worth, Texas, Daily Mail


—Maro both amused and mystified his audience.





Facsimile from W. Carl Wyatt, Nashville

ALEX PERRY, President. 
SEASON
 1900–1901,
 W. CARL WYATT, Secretary.  Organized 1898—Third Season.

The Tabernacle Lyceum.


Nashville, Tenn., Apr 9.01




No entertainment on attraction presented by us during the three years that our course has been in existence has pleased and interested our members more than Maro.




W. Carl Wyatt
Sec'y



Facsimile from W. D. Fellows, of Fall River



Young Men's Christian Association of Fall River Mass.




April 6/01




After nine years of experience with the hot talent to be processed, I am fair to sayv none has given better satisfaction than yours—
Our people were delighted and unanimous in saying-
Have Maro again—


Very Truly
W.D. Fellows Secy Y.M.C.A.




WHERE MARO HAS BEEN

List of About One-Half the Cities Where Maro Has Appeared During the Past Three Seasons

Attica, Ind.


3 Albany, N. Y.


3 Altoona, Pa.


2 Ashland, Pa.


4 Allegheny, Pa.


Aurora, Ill.


2 Amherst, Mass.


Anderson, Ind.


2 Allentown, Pa.


Atlantic, Ia.


Ashland, Ky.


Belle Plain, Ia.


Brandon, Mass.


Benton Harbor, Mich.


2 Baltimore, Md.


Bloomfield, Ia.


2 Bloomington, Ill.


Boulder, Colo.


Bridgeport, Conn.


2 Blue Earth City, Minn.


3 Beaver Falls, Pa.


2 Butler, Pa.


Baraboo, Wis.


2 Bay View, Mich.


Bluffton, Ind.


Braddock, Pa.


Boston, Mass.


Barton, Vt.


Barre, Vt.


Butler, Mo.


Belleville, Ill.


Bloomington, Ind.


Bay City, Mich.


4 Brooklyn. N. Y.


2 Brockton. Mass.


Bridgeton, N. J.


Bloomsburg, Pa.


Brattleboro, Vt.


Brockport, N. Y.


Belvidere, Ill.


Beloit, Wis.


3 Columbus, O.


Cambridge, O


Carthage, Mo


Coffeyville, Kan.


2 Cleveland, O.


Clinton, Ill.


6 Chicago, Ill.


3 Carlisle, Pa.


2 Chautauqua, N. Y.


Carrollton, Mo.


Caldwell, Kan.


Cincinnati. O


2 Celina, O.


Cambridge, O.


Canton, O.


Camden, N. J.


Claremont, N. H.


Chillicothe, O.


Carbondale, Pa.


Charlotte, N. C.


Crawfordsville, Ind.


Chillicothe, Mo.


2 Dixon, Ill.


Danville, Ill.


2 Decatur, Ill.


Des Moines, Ia.


2 Delavan, Ill.


2 Dayton, O.


Danville, Ind.


Davenport, Ia.


2 Doylestown, Pa.


2 Eaglesmere, Pa.


Elgin, Ill.


Evansville, Ind.


2 Easton, Pa.


Evanston, Ill.


Elkhart, Ind.


El Reno, Okl.


Escanaba, Mich.


2 Emporium, Pa.


E, Greenwich, R. I.


Erie, Pa.


Enosburg Falls, Vt.


2 Fowler, Ind.


Ft. Wayne, Ind.


Freeport, Ill,


2 Florence, Mass.


Fond Du Lac, Wis.


Frankport, Ind.


Findley, O.


2 Fostoria, O.


Fulton, N, Y,


2 Fitchburg, Mass,


2 Fall River, Mass,


Grand Rapids, Mich.


Germantown, Pa.


2 Galva, Ill.


2 Greenville, Pa.


2 Gettysburg, Pa.


Gardner, Mass.


Guthrie, Okl.


Greencastle, Ind.


Geneva, N. H.


2 Huntingdon, Pa.


2 Hazelton, Pa.


Haverhill, Mass.


Houghton, Mich.


Homestead, Pa.


Harrisburg, Pa.


Hardwick, Vt.


Huntington, Ind.


Indianapolis, Ind.


Ilion, N. Y.


3 Joliet, Ill.


Johnstown, Pa.


Jersey City, N, J.


Kankakee, Ill.


2 Kenosha, Wis.


2 Kokomo, Ind.


Kingston, N, Y,


Ludington, Mich.


Lockville, Conn,


2 Lancaster, Pa.


3 Lebanon, Pa.


Lakeside, O.


Lebanon, O.


2 Lockhaven, Pa.


2 Lewistown, Pa.


Lebanon, N, H.


Lawrence, Kan.


La Fayette, Ind.


2 Minneapolis, Minn.


Maniton, Mass.


Marshall, Mich.


Mt, Vernon, O.


2 Marion, Ia,


Manistee, Mich.


Mitchell, So, Dak.


4 Mt, Lake Park, Md.


Mendota, Ill.


Manchester, N. H,


Middlesboro. Mass.


3 Montpelia, Vt.


Melrose, Mass,


Milwaukee, Wis.


Menominee, Mich.


Marquette, Mich.


2 Murphysboro. Ill.


2 Marion, Ill.


2 Mt. Vernon, Ind.


Muncie, Ind.


2 Milton, Pa.


Marion, Ind.


Madison, Wis.


2 Media, Pa.


Mattoon, Ill.


Monticello. Ind.


Meriden, Conn.


Muscatine, Ia.


2 McKeesport, Pa,


McConnellsville, O.


McDonald, Pa.


New Haven, Conn,


Newtonville, Mass.


2 New Castle, Pa.


Norristown, Pa.


Nashville, Tenn.


2 Newburg, N, Y.


2 New York City.


New Bedford, Mass.


Newark, O,


Ottawa, Kan.


Oil City, Pa.


Ottawa, Ill


3 Providence, R, I.


4 Philadelphia, Pa.


Poola, Kan.


2 Pontiac, Ill.


Pekin, Ill,


Pawtucket, R, I.


2 Pottstown, Pa.


Peabody Kan.


Peru, Ill,


3 Pittsburg, Pa.


2 Paterson, N. J.


Peoria, Ill,


2 Poughkeepsie, N. Y.


Penacook, N. H.


Parkersburg, W. Va.


Proctor, Vt.


2 Racine, Wis.


2 Renora, Pa,


3 Rochester, N, Y.


2 Rutland, Vt.


Reading, Pa.


Riverhead N. Y.


Richmond, Va.


Selkirk, Mass.


St, Louis, Mo.


2 Sycamore, Ill.


Streator, Ill.


Sioux Falls, So, Dak.


2 Sheboygan, Wis.


3 Springfield, O.


Sterling, Ill,


2 Sandusky, O.


2 Scranton. Pa.


Sioux City, Ia.


2 St, Johnsbury, Vt.


Springfield, Mass.


Southbridge, Mass.


St, Paul, Minn.


Salena, Kan


Savanna, Ill,


Stillwater, Minn,


2 Sunbury, Pa.


South Bend, Ind,


2 Steelton, Pa,


Syracuse, N, Y.


Saratoga, N, Y.


Sag Harbor, N. Y.


Shannokin, Pa.


Summit, N. J.


3 Troy N. Y.


2 Trenton, N. J,


Terre Haute, Ind.


2 Titusville, Pa.


Tyrone, Pa.


Trenton, Mo.


Towanda. Pa.


Tunkhannock, Pa.


Taunton, Mass.


2 Urichsville, O.


2 Urbana, Ill,


Vincennes, Ind.


Winnepeg, Mass.


2 Winfield, Kan.


Wichita, Kan.


Waukegan, Ill.


Winsted, Conn.


2 Worthington, Minn.


Waukesha, Wis.


2 Warren, Pa.


3 Wilkesbarre, Pa.


Waterloo, Ia.


Winona, Minn.


2 Wilkinsburg, Pa.


Wheeling, W. Va.


Williamstown, Mass.


Winchester, Mass.


Worcester, Mass.


Williamsport, Pa.


White River Jt., Vt.


Woodstock, Vt.


Woonsocket, R. I.


Westfield, Mass.


Ypsilanti, Mich.


2 Yankton, So. Dak.


Youngstown, O.


2 Zanesville, O.



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