Castor Watt

There, on January 27, 1896, his American stage debut took place in New York in the Hammerstein's Olympia Theatre, which had opened a few months earlier.

[1] Castor Watt's quick-change show consisted of imitating different characters and celebrities in corresponding costumes in a matter of seconds.

Typical characters of the performance were "Ship Captain", "Sailor", "Grandpa", "Nurse with Child", "Tyrolean", "Old Maid", "Cadet", the actress "Sarah Bernhardt" and himself, "Castor Watt in a ball suit".

He performs transformations on the open stage and a slight tightening on a string, or a short unbuttoning is enough to stand in a new outfit again in a period of a few seconds."

– Münchener Ratsch-Kathl (translation)[8] "The 'chameleon man' P. Castor Watt offers something surprising with eight transformations in front of the eyes of the audience.

Lightning-fast metamorphoses show him as captain, old man, Wendish nurse, Tyrolean, old maid and Sarah Bernhardt."

Castor Watt was engaged at Hammerstein's Olympia, Broadway and 44th Street, Manhattan in 1896