
He opens in an Oriental setting, a bare-hand production of silks commences, and the silks get bigger and increase in quantity until they almost envelope the performer. At one stage during this he step on to a platform raised from the stage. Finally a girl is produced from the silks.
He produces a piece of paper at his fingertips, tears an oval shape from it and puts it in his mouth. The paper is crushed and opened restored. The piece is removed from his mouth and is juggled on a fan until it becomes an egg which is broken into a glass.
The "Bran Plates" are used to produce doves which perch on an assistants arm. More doves are produced from a Bretma dove box and this is followed by catching doves in a net
He then performed "Where do the Ducks Go?". Next he vanished an orange, a lemon, a ball and a canary from paper bags ona suspicious-looking table. The cloth is removed from table and it only has a very thin top. A Nest of Boxes which descends from the flies is opened and an orange found inside. This is peeled to reveal the lemon and this peeled to reveal the ball. The ball is opened and the canary is inside.
The Sword Box followed and then some bewildering quick-change sequences with narrow oblong boxes. Suspended from the flies they are caused to spin in mid-air and the four doors of each cabinet swing open freely. A lady assistant appears and vanishes with surprising effect.
Two cabinets produce a miniature farm-yard of animals and then three monkeys are produced. This was followed by the glass-lined trunk illusion.
A comedy item was next in which, from a long narrow box, a seven-foot high figure of a girl appears, who dances off the stage. Next was -the effect with the transposition of the heads of a duck and a fowl.
A large empty cabinet is shown with two smaller empty boxes on either side. Male assistants enter the small boxes from where they vanish and ladies appear in their stead. Then the large cabinet is opened and it is full of girls in Orientsl costume with cymbals. They all execute a Salome type dance.
The elevation of curtain reveals a large cage in the center of the stage and Nubian slaves carrying palm leaves. Carmo enters the cage and the slaves conceal the interior with th palm Leaves. When withdrawn Carmo has vanished and a huge Bengal tiger is in his place. Carmo reappears from the auditorium.
Minor items include the Inexhaustible Wine Bowl and the Duck Pan. As the duck walks off stage Carmo follows elegantly performing the "goose step".
The final scene depicts an Eastern Court. Sheik enters on a gaily dressed elephant. A dancing girl enters in a palaquin attended by slaves. She charms the Sheik with her dancing. Then mounted on a white horse, Carmo enters in the guise of a Knight. He presents a papyrus scroll to the Sheik and while the latter reads, the Knight and the Dancing Girl take an interest in each other.
The entrance of a rival dancer raises the anger of the favorite, and finding herself deserted by the Sheik she tosses a red rose to the Knight. He tries to carry her off, but is stopped by the slaves. With some quick-changes he adopts several disguises but fails to escape. The Sheik commands that he be thrown to the beasts, and the doors of the cage are opened to reveal a huge forest-bred lion. The Knight is seized and thrust up the steps towards the cage, but he vanishes, leaving the slaves with an empty cloak.
In anger the Sheik commands that the girl be thrown to the lion. Struggling she is forced up the steps and thrown into the cage with a scream, But she is in the arms of the Knight, tbe lion having vanished.
The curtain falls and rises to show the Knight and dancer on the stage in happy embrace. the Sheik and slaves subdued, and the lion again pacing his cage.
The whole show carried 32 people as well as a veritable menagerie of animals.