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Show "Heart of Ch!caf;o." In the rallrond Scene In "Tho ITenrt of Chicago," Lincoln J. Curler's grout plHy, a seemlnyly Impossible font In siugOjClTect has been iiccnmpilidied; the iippro-ch of ii train, head on, growing larger and larger ns It app"iirs In full view of Ihu iiinllenee, from a nicru HpecK lu Ihe horizon until nt lust when thu audience Is nlmn.t wild with Iho "excitement of the. situation thu full-Mzod full-Mzod locomotive st"P ntllie footlights. Thu illusion Is peifct. A Iho begin-n'lng begin-n'lng of Urn act it iju illtlful nid renin-tic renin-tic scenu U Minwn, with the tinck in pmfect petfpeelfvu tunning hick ap-. patently .ibnui four miles until lfc l al-I al-I imt ll l" Hi' distance, Mich ui I I uual In the great war panorama o( (li'iiys'.urc, etc. T-e un chain. m ,o' the enlarg ng lucent otive l u; m-L intricate ami ciM'y piceu or uuiehlio ry ever ued lu Mage i JT c', ami like nil the singe IIIiiMoih us. d in lii playo.. was Invented l.y Mr. Carter, win. has always buioti'd that hu could iviin-dueu iviin-dueu on Urn singe any .wnt iler of nn tnre or work of matt. After seeing I he approaching iruln In ."Tho Henri if Chleuuo" one must ml mil Unit the pos Nihilities or nt ago Illusion Is Judoxl great when In ihu hands of one wl.o la a master of iho art.. |