Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 73
e end of this second chamber,at the back of a stage, is seen a coffin standing upright, in which one of theaudience is requested to place himself. Entering the stage by the side door,he is conducted by an attendant to the coffin and placed in it. Blocks of woodare placed for him to stand on in… … THE SUBJECT AND HIS SKELETON, position. Two rows of Argand burners illuminate his figure, which is thenwrapped in a white sheet. Now, as the spectators watch him, he graduallydissolves or fades away and in his place appears a skeleton in the coffin.Again, at the word of command the skeleton in its…
Magic tricks
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