Leaves from conjurers' scrap books, or, Modern magicians and their works (1891)
Burlingame, Hardin J, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : Donohue, Henneberry & Co. · leaf 128
d Cumberland did, but she didthem much quicker and with more brilliant success.She differs very materially from these opera-tors, by her quiet and distinguished appearance inher experiments. Her presence, compared with theextreme nervousness of the gentlemen just men-tioned above, is very striking,… … LUCY DE GENTRY. of any small object, the other end of which washeld by the medium; for instance, she would use ahandkerchief or a ruler; this is similar to some of 126 MODEEN MAGICIANS AND THEIR WORKS. the original methods used by Brown, who very oftenseparated himself from the medium by a short…
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