MAGICIAN’S RESOURCE
NEW DISAPPEARING TRICK
POSSIBLE PANIC AVERTED
Decatur, 111., Sept. 3
Performing the new trick of “the disappearing audience,” Blackstone, the magician, prevented a possible theatre panic yesterday. He was about to go on stage at
the Lincoln Theatre before a packed house —nearly all children —when fire broke out in an adjoining building. It swiftly became so dangerous that Fire Chief Claude Osborne ordered the theatre evacuated. Blackstone said he could handle the situation.
Striding on to the stage, the magician said: “I shall open this performance with a brand new feat -—one which requires the co-opera-tion of everyone in the audience. “Everyone must leave the theatre for a few moments while preparations are made. All right, those near the exi:s may leave. Wallc slowly. Take your time. . . ”
Everyone left and even after they sav the fire next door many wanted U re-enter the theatre to see the rest < f the “brand new feat.” The fire caused damage to two adioining shops estimated at 40,000 lollars by the Fire Chief. The Uieatre was not damaged appreciably.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13773, 16 October 1942, Page 6
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