(17 mins.) “Sawing A Woman In Half” – Undoubtedly the greatest illusion of its kind seen in years and held our audience stunned. It is not only a medium of great advertising value but the act itself is one that is sure to create a great deal of talk. Our audience was talking about it right through to the end of the show and expect it to be one of the biggest hits of the year.
Presented by The Great Jansen. I haven’t seen Mr. Goldin;s presentation of this, but I have assumed that I would like Mr. Jansen the better of the two for an act of this kind. He has a fine appearance and a nice delivery and appears more of a scientist than the showman. We are working up a stunt for Wednesday evening and an ostensible challenge being sent to Jansen by “Providence woman who is interested in the fact, but because of her prominence does not want to be disclosed and appears masked. We are carrying ads of this in today’s papers with a copy in half-tone of the woman’s original letter and Jansen’s reply. It seems to be of considerable interest and I think we can get something out of it. With the act itself, the audience was decidedly impressed at yesterday’s performance. 15 minutes, full stage.
20 min in 3 spec.
Goldin has a great illusion in “Swing A Woman In Half” and held the audience intact closing the show.
Mind Reading. This act was booked for the full week.
Mind Reading. I think this is one of the poorest acts of this kind played in this house. Both the princess & her partner have poor personality. Special stage setting in Four.
Mind Reader – The most mystifying act of this kind I ever saw and I have been looking at them for more than forty years. Without any apparent cue or code, Zamah does all the describing, done by other people doing this work whose code is most apparent. Very satisfactory act. 22 min. full stage.
A good comedy Illusion act, they do the trunk trick, and do it well. The act went good. 14 min in 3.
Comedy Illusionists. Man and woman comedy burlesque, magic. Finishing with the trunk mystery. 14 min. full. This act got lots of laughs but not much of a hand — the reason — took too much time untieing the trunk at the end of their set.
Card manipulator. A very good entertainer whose various tricks pleased and he got considerable laughter with his talk. 18 min. in one.
(22 mins.) This act proved a real mystery due to the fact that her assistant in the audience speaks no word to her. They do a clever routine of mind-reading stuff and got very good returns with all of it. Closed to a good hand. Her first showing after arriving from abroad.
