Durno: in the white house of magic

              DURNO IN THE WHITE HOUSE OF MAGIC
MYSTERY AND FUN

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Durno=Endorsed by both press and public to be the greatest magician in America


Durno=The sensation of thirty-one States and Canada


Durno=The man who makes you laugh


Durno=Has crossed the continent six times in the last four years




The man who never missed a date





DURNO the Whirlwind of Wonders


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DURNO IN HIS LATEST GREAT ILLUSION THE MYSTIC WATERS




DURNO

in his

MIRTH-PROVOKING

feats of
 VENTRIL OQUISM

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W
HEN YOU CAN SEE AND HEAR THE DURNO COMPANY all 
SORROWS
 and 
TROUBLES
 will be for the time forgotten




It is an entertainment that consists principally of


Magic


Illusions


Comedy


Music


Imitations


Ventriloquism

 One will laugh and laugh as never before.





The Metamorphose
A clever conceit arranged by DURNO, showing the dematerialization of human bodies.



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The MAN WHO MAKES YOU LAUGH
A JOLLY COMPANY OF FUN MAKERS AND SIX LIVE ANIMALS

D
URNO appears, the fun begins, removes his gloves, they vanish; then waves his wand, birds appear in mid-air, flowers can be seen growing, a small bowl of water is produced from a silk handkerchief, then a large one containing two pailfulls.




U
NLIKE other magicians 
DURNO
 is a comedian and humorist, he uses a flow of language which is full of comedy, his voice is clear and distinct, and while listening to him one can see him produce different articles and cause them to vanish.




R
EPRODUCTION of old tricks performed by 
DURNO
, such as the manipulation of eggs, dolls, chickens, ducks, hats, watches, gloves, etc., are manipulated in such a way as to create rounds of applause and laughter.




N
OTHING but wonder and amusement prevails when 
DURNO
 performs his 
Optical Illusion 
Guess.
  It cannot be explained but must be seen to be appreciated.  The effect of this is marvelous and causes great wonder.




O
RGAN PIPES and their strange music, a production that can be accomplished only by means of magic.  The sightly effect is astonishing as well as amusing.  It is all mystery and fun.




THE DURNO COMPANY is not composed of lecturers nor concert entertainers.  They are fun provokers and entertain by mystifying, astonishing, ventriloquism, singing comic songs, playing various string instruments, telling funny stories, etc.




DURNO CARRIES HIS OWN SPECIAL SCENERY






Few Comments on Durno, Gathered in His Four Years' Travel of 100,000 Miles


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DURNO, 
The Mysterious




Chicago Inter-Ocean


A clever magician—very entertaining.




New York World


DURNO
 is an attraction of much merit.




Columbus (Ohio) Daily Courier


DURNO
 keeps his audience in an uproar of laughter.




San Francisco Call


The work done by 
DURNO
 compares more than favorably with that of the late Hermann and Kellar.




New York Clipper


DURNO
 has scored a triumph of late in mystifying the people to the last degree.




Owosso Daily Press-American


DURNO
 a winner.  Handsome magician scores another hit with an Owosso audience.




Minneapolis Times


DURNO'S
 legerdemain was of a high order and he kept the audience in an uproar with his side remarks 
between tricks.




St. Paul Despatch


DURNO
 is an adept in his art.  In stature and in makeup he is the perfection of the master of necromancy.  His work is marvelous.




Providence (R. I.) Journal


The greatest that ever appeared in this city.




Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press


DURNO
 highly entertained a crowded house.




Albany (N. Y.) The Argus


DURNO
 is certainly a star in his line of work.




Montpelier (Vt.) Daily Journal


DURNO
 will get a packed house if he comes again.




Troy Daily Record


DURNO
 is a great magician and makes you laugh.




Baltimore Morning Herald


DURNO'S
 mysterious fun was highly entertaining.




Toledo Blade


DURNO
 is equal to the best magician that ever appeared here.




Boston (Mass.) Journal


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




Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald


The most dexterous of men with his hands is 
DURNO
, and depends on the lightning-like rapidity with which he works.




Ann Arbor, Mich.


DURNO
, 
The Mysterious,
 & Co., pleased a crowded house at the Athens Theater last night.  
DURNO'S
 illusions were marvelous.  The interest in the program was unabated until its close. 
DURNO
 has a good voice and is very quick, never dragging.




Oklahoma Daily Oklahoman


DURNO,

The Mysterious,
 was an interesting novelty, the attraction was much more than pleasing, each feature of the entertainment elicited a generous measure of applause.  The program was nicely arranged and comprised a number of mystifying and original sleight-of-hand ideas that were truly meritorious.  The entire performance was so fresh and cleverly done that each patron felt a lively interest in each succeeding deception.




Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) Courier-Democrat


DURNO
, 
The Mysterious,
 & Co., who appeared here last night, was a whirlwind of wonders.  They came, we saw—or rather we didn't—they conquered.  They made us think we needed glasses and set our ears a-tingling.  Was it worth the price of admission?  That is easily answered by stating that the largest number of people that have ever been congregated beneath one roof in Mt. Pleasant witnessed that performance of mirth, magic, music and ventriloquism.



DIRECTION OFTHE CENTRAL LYCEUM BUREAUSuite 415 Orchestra Building, CHICAGO, ILL.FRED PELHAM, Manager


AND THIS IS WHAT THEY SAY



Kingfisher
 (
Oklahoma Ter.
) 
Press


DURNO
 fills the bill completely.




De Pere
 (
Wis.
) 
Daily News


DURNO
 has astonishing and remarkable skill.




Santa Barbara
 (
Cal.
) 
Press


DURNO
 has a pleasant manner and keeps his audience laughing.




Manistee
 (
Mich.
) 
Daily Advocate


DURNO
 made more fun with his cleverness than could a number of comedians.




Evansville
 (
Ind.
) 
The Courier


All stiffness disappeared, self-inforced dignity gave way to natural outbursts of jollity.




Meredith, N. H.


DURNO
, 
The Mysterious,
 & Co., gave the greatest treat presented to our citizens for many years.




Jacksonville
 (
Ill.
) 
Press


DURNO
 has earned a wide reputation as a magician and it is a deserved reputation, as he abundantly proved last night.




Rockford
 (
Ill.
) 
Morning Star


DURNO
 played here last night to standing room only.  Many here have said that he has no equal in his line.  He is very quick, graceful and has a good voice.




Lebanon
 (
Pa.
) 
The Report


Lebanon audiences have seen Kellar and others in magic and illusions, but 
DURNO
 succeeded in interesting last night's audience as others have seldom done and, more than that, dematerialized a human body, all splendid illusions, for which he received volumes of applause.




Flint
 (
Mich.
) 
Daily News


DURNO
, magician, succeeded in mystifying a large audience at Stone's Opera House last night.  His illusions are up-to-date, and he performs them so artistically as to completely baffle the closest observer.  Some of his tricks are little short of marvelous and his program was altogether one of the best ever presented in this city.




The St. Joseph Gazette-Herald


An immense audience greeted 
DURNO
, 
The Mysterious,
 & Co., at the Toole Theater Monday night.  It was pronounced one of the very best of the excellent attractions on the Y. M. C. A. Lyceum Course and General Secretary Lloyd is to be congratulated on having secured it.  The theater was packed from pit to dome and the ushers handled the large crowd with expedition and without hitch or confusion.  The character of the amusement was excellent in every particular.  
DURNO
, the magician, may, without the slightest exaggeration, be pronounced the equal of Hermann the Great in his palmiest days.  He put new twists on some of Hermann's old tricks and performed many original feats that would have set old Hermann guessing, could he have witnessed them.



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DURNO the VentriloquistDURNO the Entertainer



DURNO
 makes the impossible seem possible, the unnatural, natural.  He causes you to see what you do not see and not to see what you think you see.  
DURNO
 Co., has crossed the continent six times during the past four years.



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DURNO the Originator
DURNO the Comedian





ASSOCIATE MEMBER AMERICAN LYCEUM UNION S. B. Hershey Pres't & Gen't Mgr.ROCHESTER, N.Y.






At the Topmost Rung of the Ladder of Success



DURNO A CROWNING SUCCESS



We, the undersigned, certify that DURNO 
The Mysterious
 drew the largest crowd of any number on our Lecture Course this season.  He also gave the best satisfaction of any one in his line that has ever appeared here:




Chas. D. Martz, Mt. Carmel, Pa.


C. M. Hartzell, Latrobe, Pa.


Geo. B. Clementson, Lancaster, Wis.


Chas. J. Seltzer, Parkesburg, Pa.


D. A. Harmon, Hazelton, Pa.


L. R. Irwin, Woodstock, Va.


Burdette Boyle, Mt. Jewett, Pa.


H. H. Weber, Jersey Shore, Pa.


Jas. W. Davis, Lansford, Pa.


J. N. Adee, Sycamore, Ill.


E. J. Stearns, Hutchinson, Minn.


Landon and North, Pontiac, Mich.


A. J. Schuette, Beloit, Wis.


J. W. Livingston, Stevens Point, Wis.


Chas. C. Miller, Beaver Dam, Wis.


E. S. Rouse, Plattsmouth, Neb.


W. S. Huesner, Junction City, Kan.


Homer S. Myers Chapman, Kan.


S. A. Bardwell, Clay Center, Kan.


W. C. Jamison, Stillwater, Okla.


C. J. Benson Shawnee, Okla.


Hathaway Harper, Oklahoma City, Okla.


S. H. Reid, El Reno, Okla.


A. B. Honnald, Medicine Lodge, Kan.


D. W. Bates, Albia, Ia.


Clyde H. King, Vermillion, S. D.


S. G. Richards, Knoxville, Ia.


E. G. Hutlisteiner, Tell City, Ind.


H. C. Montgomery, Seymour, Ind.


Chas. R. Miller, Huron, S. D.


H. A. Weeks, Madison, Ind.


J. L. Censer, Mitchell, Ind.


Louis I. Allering, Evansville, Ind.


J. N. Teeple, Charleston, Ind.


C. V. Hadley, Fairmont, Ind.


A. F. Stewart, Rushville, Ind.


W. Bruner, La Fontaine, Ind.


J. W. Shook, Canal Winchester, O.


J. R. Harrington, New Straightsville, O.


W. G. Wolfe, Quaker City, O.


Geo. P. Whetsell, Elkins, W. Va.


F. W. Haught, Buckhannon, W. Va.


S. B. Bond, Salem, W. Va.


W. E. Swan, Sutton, W. Va.


Frank B. Bull, Cedarville, O.


W. M. Carter, Lewisburg, Tenn.


T. B. Loggins, Dixon, Tenn.


J. A. Bostick, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.


J. R. Sumpter, Pulaski, Tenn.


J. W. Provine, Clinton, Miss.


A. S. Bush, Bunkie, La.


Jas. J. L. Bowling, Beaumont, Texas.


L. B. Carlton, Alvin, Texas.


J. B. Palmer, Galveston, Texas.


Bernard Brown, El Campo, Texas.


Alvin Jones, Victoria, Texas.


L. Joseph, Cuero, Texas.


M. C Jeffrey, Lockhart, Texas.


Sterling Fisher, San Marcos, Texas.


Mrs. E. C. Dodd, Laredo, Texas.


H. S. Anderson, Austin, Texas.


S. Watkins, Stamford, Texas.


R. S. Fulton, Van Alstyne, Texas.


N. R. Ainsworth, Weatherford, Texas.


S. L. Clark, Childress, Texas.


C. B. DeLancy, Barnesboro, Pa.


B. S. Beecher, Albion, N. Y.


G. H. Foote, Ransomville, N. Y.


H. J. Russell, Frewsburg, N. Y.


S. S. Travis, Sherman, N. Y.


Geo. R. Raynor, Falconer, N. Y.


J. M. Burrows, Ripley, N. Y.


W. G. Conschafter, Arcade, N. Y.


E. D. Hathaway, Oriskany, N. Y.


Dr. J. E. Salsbury, Cazenovia, N. Y.




Original manuscript in possession of DURNO, 47 ½ PARK AVE., ROCHESTER, N. Y.



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Carl Herrmann
 THE PRINCE OF VIOLINISTS

REMENJI WILHELMJ JOACHIM D'ARDITI KREUTZER YIEUXTEMPS DAYID SARASATE VIOT SPOHR DEBERICT PAGANINI



MUSICAL GENIUS AND COMPOSER.  MARVELOUS IMITATOR


HERMANN 
plays classical and popular music, also produces from the violin sixty novelties and imitations.




WITH 
fourteen years' experience before the American public, together with constant practice and hard study, has won him the above title.




TO HEAR HERMANN 
and see him manipulate the bow on four common strings of a violin will lead one to believe the violin was made to do anything but talk.  He cannot be excelled in his rendition of various popular airs with variations.




NOTICES OF FIRST HALF SEASON 1904-5



Lockhaven
 (
Pa.
) 
Express


—Has never been equalled in this city.




Richmondville
 (
N. Y.
) 
Phoenix


—May well be termed the prince of violinists, for he is the only man we ever heard play the violin who could fairly make the instrument talk.




Roanoke, Va.


—Did some splendid playing.




Bluefield
 (
W. Va.
) 
Telegram


—A master, elicited much applause.




Clifton Springs
 (
N. Y.
) 
Local


—Wonderful playing, delighted all present.




Belvidere
 (
N. J.
) 
Appolo


—Soon convinced the audience, deserves his title.  He could make his violin talk.




Ottumwa
 (
Ia.
) 
Currier


—Splendid renditions, hearty appreciation, won enthusiastic applause.




Columbia
 (
Mo.
) 
Tribune


—His selections the audience received with enthusiasm.




Galena
 (
Ill.
) 
Gazette


—Violinist of great ability, a master of the bow, imitations excellent, met with rounds of applause.



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JOHN AND CATHERINE

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POPPING POP CORN FOR CHRISTMAS

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THE BAG-PIPER AT THE PARTY

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WHISTLING REUBEN

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THE COUNTRY ORCHESTRA

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THE TROLLEY CAR

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THE WOODEN SHOE

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PIG UNDER THE FENCE

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MY GLRL PROM THE ALLIMO

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CHRISTMAS TREE

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TOY MUSIC BOX

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DARKEY CAMP MEETING

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MAKING  INSTRUMENT ON STAGE AND PLAYING ON IT

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THE TIN FIFE AND THE AMATEUR

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WOODEN PUMP

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COUNTRY FIDDLER

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SAND JIG




DURNO 
AND
 Co. 
THE MYSTERIOUS

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DURNO'S STAGE SETTING

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THE MAN WHO MAKES YOU LAUGH