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Kiralfy Bros.’ Enchantment
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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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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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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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