Magician’s Illusions Mystify—An Act Devoted to Mediums

Harry Houdini last night opened his new two-act one-man show, with the assistance of several pretty girls, at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre, to run for two weeks. His sleight-of-hand is still the despair of the eye and mystified many small boys of all ages. Even professional skeptics were unable to see how the tricks were performed.

Notably interesting were the reproduction of “Palingenesis,” or taking a living man apart; “The Whirlwind of Colors,” in which the magician removed from an ordinary glass bowl enough silk to equip a bargain counter, and “The Famous Chinese Water Torture Act,” which appeared inexplicable and unpleasantly dangerous.

His second act was devoted to the unmasking of mediums. His preamble was rather tedious. The fact that his assistants extracted letters from the pockets of coats deposited in the cloak room in good faith and that information found in these letters was used to ask questions of people in the audience caused chagrin in some instances.

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