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| [[File:Olympia-The-Miracle.png|thumb|upright=1.75|Setting for ''[[The Miracle (play)|The Miracle]]'' (1911)|alt=stage set designed to look like the interior of a medieval cathedral]] | [[File:Olympia-The-Miracle.png|thumb|upright=1.75|Setting for ''[[The Miracle (play)|The Miracle]]'' (1911)|alt=stage set designed to look like the interior of a medieval cathedral]] |
| Between then and the [[First World War]] Cochran restored his finances with other ventures, from roller-skating to circuses at [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre|Earl's Court]] and Olympia. His greatest success of those years was [[Max Reinhardt]]'s spectacular production of [[Karl Vollmöller]]'s wordless play ''[[The Miracle (play)|The Miracle]]''. The original idea came from Cochran, who suggested to Reinhardt that he should stage a mystery play set in the Middle Ages, and that Olympia should be converted to look like a cathedral for the purpose. Reinhardt gave him a letter of introduction to Vollmöller who prepared a scenario. Cochran accepted it and worked in close collaboration with Reinhardt, the designer [[Ernst Stern]] and the composer [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]].<ref>Cochran, p. 288</ref> The play opened at Olympia on 23 December 1911. Initially, box-office takings were disappointing, but [[Hamilton Fyfe]] of ''[[The Daily Mail]]'' wrote of his astonishment "that so wonderful a spectacle as ''The Miracle''" was drawing so few people,<ref>Graves, p. 43</ref> after which the ''Mail's'' proprietor, [[Lord Northcliffe]], had his other papers extolling the play, and it became a success.<ref name=dnb/> Ellis comments that subsequently "the eulogies Cochran received from the Northcliffe press were offset by his more critical reception by other popular newspapers".<ref name=dnb/> The next attraction Cochran presented at Olympia was [[Carl Hagenbeck]]'s "Wonder Zoo and Big Circus" in 1913.<ref>Graves, pp. 44–46</ref> A London newspaper reported in January 1914 that the show "has broken all records for Olympia. Gigantic as the place is, it is difficult to find room for all who wish to see what a first-class circus is really like".<ref>"The Olympia Circus", ''Shoreditch Observer'', 10 January 1914, p. 2</ref> | Between then and the [[First World War]] Cochran restored his finances with other ventures, from roller-skating to circuses at [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre|Earl's Court]] and Olympia. His greatest success of those years was [[Max Reinhardt]]'s spectacular production of [[Karl Vollmöller]]'s wordless play ''[[The Miracle (play)|The Miracle]]''. The original idea came from Cochran, who suggested to Reinhardt that he should stage a mystery play set in the Middle Ages, and that Olympia should be converted to look like a cathedral for the purpose. Reinhardt gave him a letter of introduction to Vollmöller who prepared a scenario. Cochran accepted it and worked in close collaboration with Reinhardt, the designer [[Ernst Stern]] and the composer [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]].<ref>Cochran, p. 288</ref> The play opened at Olympia on 23 December 1911. Initially, box-office takings were disappointing, but [[Hamilton Fyfe]] of ''[[The Daily Mail]]'' wrote of his astonishment "that so wonderful a spectacle as ''The Miracle''" was drawing so few people,<ref>Graves, p. 43</ref> after which the ''Mail's'' proprietor, [[Lord Northcliffe]], had his other papers extolling the play, and it became a success.<ref name=dnb/> Ellis comments that subsequently "the eulogies Cochran received from the Northcliffe press were offset by his more critical reception by other popular newspapers".<ref name=dnb/> |
| The next attraction Cochran presented at Olympia was [[Carl Hagenbeck]]'s "Wonder Zoo and Big Circus" in 1913.<ref>Graves, pp. 44–46</ref> A London newspaper reported in January 1914 that the show "has broken all records for Olympia. Gigantic as the place is, it is difficult to find room for all who wish to see what a first-class circus is really like".<ref>"The Olympia Circus", ''Shoreditch Observer'', 10 January 1914, p. 2</ref> | |
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