The practical magician and ventriloquist's guide : a practical manual of fireside magic and conjuring illusions : containing also complete instructions for acquiring & practising the art of ventriloquism (1876)
Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Hurst & Co. · leaf 26
ust decline on the spot to give explanations before orafter the performance of this trick, however they may be dis-posed to reveal the secret privately to any friend. A singularinstance is recorded of a person who was grievously disappointedwhen by importunity he had received an explanation of this… … coffee-room at Manchester, England, and was exhibiting to afriend the above trick. A traveler at a table near them had hisattention drawn by their laughing discourse, while one of them,exhibited the trick to the other. The cold barrier of Englishreserve was broken down, and he addressed one of the…
Magic tricks · Ventriloquism
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