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GRAND OLD MAN OF MAGIC.
THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 201¤,
FAMOUS CONJURER'S STORIES OF
· KING EDWARD.
THE VANISHING LADY."
claim it..
SEQUEL TO SECRET MARRIAGE.
FEER'S SON SUED BY HIS INVALID WIFE.
MR. JUSTICE KILL ON THE EFFECT OF HIS DEFENCE.
The Father of British Magicians.” A proud title that, but it brings no
Mrs. Bertha Eveline Edith Rodney, of thrill to the old man in the quiet sub- Talgarth-road, West Kensington," was urban honia in North London who can granted a decree of restitution of con- ifugal rights by Mfr: Justice Hill in the For the years have brought him somete Court, against her husband, the thing like scorn for the transitory glories Hon. James Henry Bertie Rodney, bro- of the footlights. As time passes the ther of Lord Rodney, vanishing lady almess vanishes ab together into the limbo of things · for- gotten and, besides, is she not a lady of title now, with a daughter who has just made a resplendent marriage 1.
There was no "defence. Mrs. Rodney, in evidence, said the marriage took place at Kensington register affice on Septem ber 15th, 1923 Early in the following year she went abroad with her husband. for an operation, but her health did not improve, and he left her in a convalescent home in Germany, and went back to England. He was & captain in the RAF
Both the Sailor and hia Lass, bero aud heroina of another once-famous illusion, have taken ship out of this old man's life. It is even difficult to perform the simple palming" dexterities which are the basis of the most elaborate feats of
magic.
She stayed in Germany until April stage meter thought I could lose the 1995, and then returned to England, to ability to palm," he said, with a glanca a bungalow near Purley. It was new at his still nervous, flexible fingers, but and very damp, and she got congestion there it is I haven't the eye-sight.of the lungs very badly. Her husband Quick eyes more than quick hands are the then took her to an hotel at Ockham, conjurar's stock-in-trade."
and stayed there three weeks with her. He then left her, as he said it was too expensive for both of them to be there, and went to live with his mother, Lady Rodney,, at Park-street, Mayfair,
ONCE TOPPED THE BILLE, Yet there a time when, as
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He was the Brst man to invent and stage the famous illusion called "The Vanishing Lady," which Carl Hertz pro- elaborate trick, duced a still more involving the disappearance of two ladies
added Mrs. Rodney, and on one occasion there, as his mother did not know they were married. She replied that he must stay away until his mother knew.
Her health grew worse, said Mrs. Rodney, and on September last year she wrote to him at the Bath Club, Dover- street, saying: You really must pull "One of them sat on a chair, which yourself together and make a home for was placed on top of a table," he ex-me. I have never fully recovered from plained to the representative of The my operation, and I need taking care of, Sunday News. "Ivenished her first, but you seem oblivious to it." and she was found in a cabinet which the audience had seen built up on the stage. "Then a second lady is placed in a glass-sided box, tied up with strong rope, and placed in the cabinet. When the cabinet is reopened the first lady is found in the glass box, and the second lady appears in the middle of the audience.
He did not answer the letter. Mr. Justice Hill said he was "entirely sceptical" that any decree of his would have any effect at all except to antagonise the party against whom it was made.
"However," he added, "you are en- titled to a decree.”
It always got the audience, that trick. You see, they had never seen any- LADY HOUSTON'S HEALTH. thing like it before, and they thought it was marvellous. Those were times when WIDOW WHO INHERITED £4,000,000. audiences at music hails were rowdier than they are now, but I never had any trouble with them. They were too busy peering to see how it was done.
HOW WAS IT DONE?
And how was, it done? Well, with out going into details, I'll whisper this: there were three ladies and not two. They looked very much alike, and each of them, after disappearing, changed her
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King Edward was always greatly mystified by the trick, and 1. remember once he tried to come behind the scenes at the Oxford Theatre when I was doing it. But Mr. Jennings, the manager had made a rule that no one was to be allow ed to come behind while The Vanishing Lady was on, and he refused to make an exception for the King-or Prince, as he was then.
DECLARED "NORMAL"
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Lady Houston is the widow of Sir Robert Houston, who died recently, leav ing a fortune of £7,000,000. It was stated, shortly after his death, that she was in capable of administering the estate and that she suffered from delusions.
Lady Houston, who was one of the first five women to receive the humour of Dame of the Order of the British Empire for her war work, was secretly married to Sir Robert in Faris in December, 1924.
Her frst husband was. Sir Theodore Brinckman, from whom she obtained a divorce in 1895. Subsequently she mar red the ninth Lord Byron, who died in
The Prince's companions were highly indignant and naked Jennings if he was aware what he was doing. It made no difference. The Prince himself took it 1917.
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he is quite right. After all, the place part in the women's suffrage movement. doesn't belong to us.' ...
During the war she did splendid work for the welfare of the troops...
"He was a most charming man with a delightful ease of manner, but Ee be- came quite another being when he was with the Princess Queen Alexandra. Then he was all aloofness and kingly dignity.
**LADY X? MYSTERY. MINISTER'S WIFE AT A MEETING
OF SPIRITUALISTS. ..
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Considerable speculation has aroused at the International Spiritualist Conference, in Paris, concerning the identity of a mysterious woman avant who is marked on, the programme as
I remember one day a few young sprigs of the nobility discussing in my dressing-room an incident which had happened at Marlborough House the day before. One of the Prince's closest friends, Lord, suddenly said to him, Teddy, ring the bell. The Prince did so, with a perfectly grave "face; then heLady X" said quietly to a footman, Call Lady" is in reality Lady Clerk, Consignees The first time I played before Minister to Czecho-Slovakia, who travell
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During the conference discussions will way. But I do not yet know how I be held on phenomena ranging from got through with my turn that night. ectopiaan to alchemy, and the evolution
7/6/21 Choang Hing Later I gave a private performance for of the devil.
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FACE DIFFER.
I produced bird enges and rabbits, kept it locked up afterwards until I came back Students of the science of physiognomy" the following year
have been deeply stirred in Berlin by a totally new theory propounded at a meet- "Stage celebrities I have known ing of the Lavater Society by Dr. Wilhelm galore George Robey, George Graves, Fless Lafayette (who was burned to death at A number of photographs were shown. Edinburgh), Harry Lauder and many with half the face darkened. In practic more. I was the first to prophesy that ally every case the members of the audi Marie Lloyd would become a star, and ence pronounced the photograph to be I knew Dan Leno when he and two more that of a man when the left ball of a of his family were not getting 210 woman's face was shown, and, in the case week in Manchester.
of the left side of a man's face, to be that of a woman.ne
But the footlights have no glamour for me now. The old faces are gone, the old life is gone. I am 78 years old and I was on the halls for 45 years. But now I am too old for it too old even for my favourite sport of fishing My wife is dead, and there is nothing for me to do but wait for the last Vanishing
KEATING'Sick of All
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Then, the oldest magician in Britain These other sex attributes have showed a dash of youthful spirit. babit of coming out more strongly on the Houdini bought most of my tricks left than on the right side. The greater my own inventions" he said. "But the preponderance of these elements in in my own day I was the equal of any any individual, the greater is the differ of them Herts, Maskelyne, all the best ence between this character and the
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THE JOSEPHINE OF TURKEY, MUSTAPHA KEMAL'S ROMANCE.
quickly acknowledged" Buch are the comments I have heard on all sides from the newly emancipated women, says Lady Drummond in the Daily Express.
* £130,000, DOWRY. Breaking through the crowds gathered to greet the new national hero, casting maidenly modesty aside, Latifa cried,
SAI HER. ENEMIES. ORIENTAL ROMANCE.
I will marry you Of Deliverer. For From what I have been told in Con- you my youth, for my country my wealth stantinople, Latifa was so absorbed in Latifa Hanout, the Oriental Jose sad jewels "And it is said that the the company of her bere husband that phine to Turkey's Napoleon, has return brought a dowry of more than £130,000 she overlooked the obligations of her ed to Constantinople. Cast aside and to her self-chosen husband.
exalted position, and so gained the Two years of marriage, the true story enmity of those who might now be her divorced by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Chabi, Conqueror, at the height of his of which is still unwritten, then the friends and consolers. She simply had meteoria carcer, his discarded Inspira divorce, leaving Latifa an embittered no time for any one, or anything else, tion seeks seclusion and solace in her woman. Whether the secret history of and her enemies are not slow in attribut rich apartmant overlooking the mystery the Turkish Napoleon's romance will ever ing it to jealousy rather than affection
be known is doubtful. Latifa herself She is said to have been inordinstaly saturated Bosphorus.
What must be her thoughts and re- guards a determined silence, brooding | jealous, even going so far to attempt to flections gazing day after day on over the fate which abased her
handle his telegrams directly from the. the water-grave of 80 many gone. Many are the reasons assigned the telegraphic office before the Ghan ever favourites, no one enn knew. Like a Ghazi's decision te divorce, the knew of their existence. Whether it way wounded creature, she shrinks from the speculation, and out of it all Latife this domestic espionage which finally de society of her fellow-beings, victim of the stands alone, a solitary, friendless figure.cided the Fresident of Turkey to relieve himself of her devoted company, or whe very-régime which emancipates her sex. The women of Turkey have hardly a
Four years ago, so the story goes, kind word to say for her. She is pecu- ther it was on, account of her reported - political aspirations, of an accumulation. when Mustaphs Keinal entered Stayrna liarly unpopular.
the Ghad the Conqueror and Deli- When Latifa Hancum was the wife of annoyances from members of her verer-Latifa, then a girl living with her of the powerful Ghazi she was too proud family, is not known yet
Her political ambitions are said to wealthy parents, exalted by: patriotic to use her influence to help the women of fervour offered herself, her youth and Turkey All that we now enjoy we owe have alarmed the Council of Ministers immense wealth to the practically pen to the Ghast himself he is the deliverer to such a degree that they urgently re niless young Turkish officer; who bad of Turkey's womanhood. Letters ad- commended the Ghari to take the step fred her imagination and inflamed her dressed to his wife remained without which deprived Latife of the title of the
answer but letters addressed to him were “ First Lady in the Land, 5
nationalistic ardour.