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Kōrero: Weekends

The Great Levante and his magical extravaganza, 1941

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The Great Levante and his magical extravaganza, 1941

The Great Levante is advertised to perform his 'magical extravaganza' at Wellington's Opera House on Easter Saturday, 1941. Saturday night was the time for shows, cabarets, dances, boxing matches and wrestling bouts. The Great Levante, Australian magician Leslie George Cole, toured the world with his illusionist tricks and escapology.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-CABOT-Magic-1941-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Peter Clayworth, Weekends – Saturday – pay day, work day, half-holiday, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/39784/the-great-levante-and-his-magical-extravaganza-1941 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Peter Clayworth, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.