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Magic.
Seen around as La Folette this musician works in evening clothes, showing a couple of good “switch” tricks, one being accomplished with the aid of a “black art” table. His best illusion is a card trick, which he works up for good laughs by going into the audience, having a spectator tear up a card, retaining a piece. Putting the pieces in a piece of paper he requests a fat lady to sit on them while he borrows a cigarette from a spectator and returns to the stage to reproduce the card in the cigarette. The lady delivers her paper, which contains the missing tobacco of the smoke.
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Variety, LXI:13, February 18, 1921.