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“Enigma” Is offered as an electrical automaton which Is supposedly operated and controlled by electricity. An announcer explains the so-called Invention in “one” preceding the turn… The figure is dressed conventionally with a long frock coat, a masked face and baggy trousers. Under direction it walks, writes name upon an easel, ascends and descends steps, turns crank of a motion picture camera, hits piano keys in haphazard manner and operated one hammer in a duet of hammers played while illustrating the “Anvil Chorus” from “II Trovatore.”
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Variety, LXII:7, April 8, 1921.