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12 minutes f.s. This illusion played here about five weeks at the Food Fair, two years ago, but it has greatly improved since that time. The set is struck immediately after the illusion, showing a bare stage. It is a certainly mystifying, and has the audience guessing. But it was very plain that the people know that mesmerism is pure “bunk” and they hated to show that they believed it.
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University of Iowa, Keith-Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 June 1910-20 February 1911