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Kiralfy Bros.’ Enchantment

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Description: Image of three main vignettes showing dance and dramatic scenes with performers including dancers in Egyptian, historical, and burlesque-style costumes, with a windmill, a couple holding hands, and a man pushing another man off of a ledge; with two top center head-and-shoulder portraits of Imre Kiralfy and Bolossy Kiralfy; the poster advertises the dance and musical spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Brothers; pasted to the verso is an untitled poster fragment with four vignettes entitled "Brilliantine's Promise," "Ephemerals," Obera's Palace," and [Babylon] showing scenes in classical settings; this poster fragment may also advertise "Enchantment" which included a character named "Fairy Brilliantine."
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Date: approximately 1879?
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Kiralfy Bro's’ Enchantment

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Image of a central image of a dance performance in a royal court arena surrounded by a collage of seven vignettes showing dramatic and dance scenes with performers wearing historical costumes in medieval town settings, captioned "A monkey bride," "The Corps De Ballet," "Ephemerals," The Plain of Windmills," "The Magic Bush's Disclosure," "The Gondola Fete," and "Brilliantine's Promise"; ornamented with palm fronds with a snake curled around them; the poster advertises the dance spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Brothers.

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Kiralfy Bros. new brilliant production : around the world in 80 days

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Image of a large group of female performers in a variety of international costumes standing and sitting with vases, banners, curtains, and columns, and a sign reading "Porselin[sic]"; vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of two men, presumably Bolossy Kiralfy and Imre Kiralfy in ovals at top right; the poster advertises the play "Around the World in Eighty Days" based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Kiralfy Bros Sieba and the 7 ravens : grand dramatic spectacle

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Image of a hanging rug with a scene of birds flying over water across a crescent moon in a center panel; borders decorated with leaves, a young woman's face in profile, and a peacock feather; the poster advertises the play "Sieba and the Seven Ravens," produced by Imre Kiralfy and Bolossy Kiralfy, and the top and bottom margin have printed information about performances beginning on January 31, [1886], at the California Theater in San Francisco, California.

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Kiralfy Bros. grand romantic spectacle : the ratcatcher of Hamelin

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Image of a musician in a festive outfit with a horn around his neck, sitting on a table and raising a wine glass with his arm around a young woman who wears a purse that matches the man's bag, hat and boots; with a date sheet pasted on the lower left of the image for performances beginning on March 8, [1886], at Miner's Theatre in Brooklyn, New York; the poster advertises the German musical play "The Ratcatcher of Hamelin" (also titled "The Ratcatcher, or the Piper of Hamelin") adapted and produced in the United States in the mid 1880s by the Kiralfy Brothers.

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Janauschek

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Image of four vignettes showing dramatic scenes featuring Czech actor Fanny Janauschek (or Francesca Janauschek) consisting of one with a woman lying on the floor after being shot by a man with a rifle as another man kidnaps a baby; an outdoor scene with women and men in Elizabethan historical costumes; and two parlor scenes including one where a woman points accusingly at a man who holds a candelabra menacingly; with the name "Janauschek" centered across the poster in twisted wood typeface and four quotes from newspapers about her acting abilities.

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The gondola fete

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Image of a grand outdoor stage with choreographed female dancers performing a ballet on a patio with lanterns before gondolas on the water, and large classical European buildings and a bridge in the background; the poster may advertise the dance spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Bros.

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Kiralfy Bros.’ Enchantment

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