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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH, 1924
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DEATH OF MR. NEVIL MASKELYNE.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY.
A FAMOUS PREACHER. DR. R. J. CAMPBELL PREACHES
AT THE ABBEY.
"There was an enormous crowd at the Abbey when Dr. R. J. Campbell was the preacher," says the Manchester Guardian. The Sunday congregations are always very large, and Church full" notice has to be put up outside.
Mr. Nevit Maskalyne, the illusionist, died on September and at his that over St. George's Hall, Langham-place, W. He was found dead in bed by his daugh ter. He had been suffering from heart "The morning preacher is chosen by trouble for some time. And it is believed the Canon in Residence, who himself that he died in his sleep. He was 89. preaches in the afternoon; the evening Mr. Maskelyn. a tall, light, rather preacher is chosen by the Dena. Soon serious-looking mac, was the acknowled after the City Temple was opened Dr. ged master of mystery in England. Parker prophesied that at a distant His life, as Lord Knutsford said in mak-date he would be invited to preach at St. ing inbilee presentation to Mr. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey Mäskelyne Jast year, had been "one of so optimistic was he about the draw gross décrit for the last fifty years?! ing together of Anglicans and Free Churchmen, or Nonconformists, as they In as John Nevil Maskelyne and his were always called in those days. But friend. Mr. G. A, Cooke (who died in this distinction was reserved for his 1905), exposed the. Davenport, brothers, successor-after he had entered the who claimed to be able to produce Anglican fold. spiritualistic manifestations, and in 1863 SWANGHAI & NORTH CIA the partners moved to London from Chel tenham and produced what was then a novel fornt of entertainment at the Crystal Palace and other places.
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FAMILY OF ILLE TOXISTS.
In 1872 they opened • England's Home of Mystery in the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, where Mr. Maskelyne claimed to have originated daily matinées, in London. In 1903 Mr. Maakelyne moved to St. George's Hall. Langham-place, in conjunction with Mr. David Devant, as Maskelyne and Devant. He died on May 19th, 1917.
He is not yet sixty, but his strenuous "Dr. Campbell has aged considerably. thirteen years at the City Temple, il- ness, and bereavement have left their mark upon him. His hair is now really white and not so abundant, his voice has, deepened, his temper has mellowed, and from his preaching and all his public the aggressive note has quite disappeared utterances. On Sunday morning he re- hiked those who stress the social gospel at the expense of spiritual values which is exactly what his clerical erities accused him of doing in what they regard as his unregenerate days. He spoke with con- siderable vigour, and now and then one Caught an echo of the old 'E. JUM
The founder of a family of illusionists, Mr. J. N. Maskelyne left two oNIS- Nevil, who died recently, and · Edwin Archibald, who died in September, 1920canopy and held outside by a member of The latter was managing director of St. the audience. The right hand was strap- George's Hall, besides himself inventing ped down and similarly held. The legs, and taking part in many clover illu arma and body wore strapped..
sions,
The er brother, Nevil, was about fourteen when he first assisted his father at the Egyptian Hall. Be had bad to work hard to make, himself proficient, bat he was tremendously keen.
- Hard work and monotony was how he once summed up the life of a profes. sional illusionist.
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Prople do not realise that it may take a year's hard work to produce on illusjon," he used to say,
The curtains of the canopy were then drawn, but in such a way as to permit an uninterrupted view beneath.
As soon as they were drawn the word Go" was given. The man disappear- rd, Those outside holding the string at- tached to his wrists would never feel any movement.
Another famous trick was "The New Page." In a coffin-shaped box a man was pinerd. The box was raised two or three feet in the air and the door open- ed. The man was found standing on his
He invented hundreds of illusions, andhrud, "When the box was again lowered one of the most imperative demands to the stage and the door again opened made upon him came from Beerbohm its inmate was found to be standing up (as he then, was), Tree,"
I want an apparition do that corner,. and another in that corner-und by to-
morrie Tree informed him when he first called him in over a certain play Mr. Sevil Maskalyne supplied appari tions for Tree's production of The Charlatan "and Anstey's The Brass Bottle" but not be explained. * by waving a wand.”
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normally.
Mr. Nevil Maskelyne was even more a mechanical genius than a magician. particularly in the development of the His inventive genius showed itself kinematograph camera and of wireless telegraphy. He invented the first kine- matograph› camera to take Alms of as- tronomical interest.
Mr. Maskelyne was also the first man, It is said, to take a moving picture of a. shell in Aight. It was found that shells
As a young man," Mr. Nevil Maske.fired from a particular gun occasionally lyne chee remarked. my father used to struck their target broadside on or bu work night and day. We lived at end first. Mr. Maskelyne photographed Batterson Park then, and I used to see a shell from this gun in flight, with the people at cricket and so forth, and woa-
result that it was possible to remedy der what it felt like to have time for the defect, which was found to be too play."
great a play between the shell and the barrel of the gun.
sented.
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man
On his last appearance on the stage a
Perhaps his most successful illusion few years ago he revived Will the was the levitation trick where a. Witch. and the Watchman." in which was lifted into the air on the fully fight the famous Maskelyne box trick was pred stage. The secret of this trick, which Years before, his father had as mystified many conjurers, is today offered £1,000 to anyone who could make still unsolved. though, of course, like correct imitation of the trick, and all the author's inventions, it is known after a lawsuit two men who claimed the to his sons. reward were awarded a verdict by the Mr. Maskelya's household benefitted House of Lords. Nevertheless, it was by his inventiveness, for he erected an afterwards declared that they had not electrically operated pendulum which actually penetrated the inventor's secret, controlled by electricity a number of and Mr. J. N. Maskelyne doubled the clocks in the house. prize and his challenge' was legally drawn ap. No conjuror, however, caine forward
o claim the money.
Mr. Nevil Maskeiyne's son Clive in his turn, came to St. George's Hall, although intended for a military career. He went to Sandhurst, but strained his heart. This however. did not prevent him from win- Bing the Military Cross with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the war. Capt. Clive Maskelyne and his younger brothers Jasper, Noel and John carry on the family traditions at Langhal- place. There is one daughter, Migs Mary Maskelyne.
"PSYCHIG" ILLUSIONS,
Like: his father-a determined opponent of bogus spiritualists-Mr. Nevil Maske- Jyne was not to be deceived by the manifestations of charlatans. He pro- duced such impressive "apparitions that he is said to have deceived such Landsfide inquirers as Sir Arthur Conan, Doyle and to have won £500 challenge that under certain conditions he could| not reproduce these phenomena by buman
means,
Besides the illusions he conceived for the entertainment of his audiences, Mr. Nevil. Maskelyne invented, a number of devices for everyday use. His inventions, or improvements of inventions, included an ultra-rapid camera, and a typewriter. During the war he experimented in wire-' less work for the Government, and be fore tant had made important experi mite in connection with gunnery at Shoebiryness.
Mr. Maskelyne had a'pleasant air of old-world courtesy about him, and be was very fond of talking about the 'seventies. The happy 'seventies," he called them.
PAMOUN TRICKя. Among Mr. Nevil Maskelyne's famous tricks was one which was christened by its first audience. Its inventor had not decided on an appropriate name, but such a chorus of "Obs!" came from the spectatora when he first presented it that Mr. Nevil Maskelyne adopted the ex- clamation as a title for his trick.
In this illusion a man was strapped in chair surrounded by a canopy on four poles. His left arm was strapped high up over his bend." A string fastened to the wrist was thrown over the top of the (Continued on next Golumn.)
Mr. Maskelyne was the president of the Magic Circle, a position which he had held many years Notices were sent out only recently regarding the annual Lanquet in November, at which Mr. Muskelync was to have taken the chair.
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