Miss Nelie Mountcastle's Serpentine and Rainbow Dance

What it might mean when projection was so young to be the woman who danced, large as the auditorium, her skirts flaring, overlapping, now parting like an impossibly animated flower, to reveal her fair raised arms, her dark painted lips smiling under those playful eyes. The beginnings of the dream sinking into the soil of the audience minds.. larger than even the ( coloured!) printed portraits of Bal Gandharva, this larger image who we would soon all aspire to be.

By end 1898, magicians coming presenting film shows including Carl Hertz and Profressor Anderson Hertz came to Bombay with Madamoiselle D'Alton as his Vanishing Lady and Anderson with Mlle Blanche. Anderson came first in 1897, and returned in 1898 and promised Christmas revels, including the newly invented "Andersonoscograph"- showing life life, a moving train arriving at the Bombay Station and the Poona Races from Start to finish