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AT THE ROYAL-THURSDAY SORCAR was brought to New York from Calcutta v I by National Broadcasting Co., for their coast-to-coast colour Television. For a program of 15 minutes I (featuring his SAWING A LADY IN HALF) NBC spent about $l5OOO U. S. Dollars (nearly Rs; 70,000 Indian Rupees) as fee, and other costs of SORCAR & his party. IM U.SA.B NEW YORK TIMES (28-5-57)...“indeed a most / | astonishing illusion, uncannily real and surely some- Udflß If fll thing to see” F I |l| |U Ml DETROIT TIMES (28-5-67)... “SORCAR was// sawing a lady in half most realistically”... CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE (28-5-57) ... “For suspense, SORCAR took all the I With a murderous looking buzzsaw in full of the audience, he cut a woman in half. B boxes, no draperies, just a woman and a saw. I■ II || It was a masterpiece of illusion, magic, or what i HI ■ have you. This looked like the real thing” I HOLYOKE TRANSCRIPT -TE LEGRAM (6-6-57)...’‘Even though Westerns think his I work is trickery, he’s scored a lot m~rr knockouts than Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano/' ' combined”... / A <SORCAR ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Modess with Whisper soft Masslinn Product of the most trusted name in Surgical dressings Sole New Zealand agents: POTTER & BIRKS (N.Z.) LTD., Auckland MMII

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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 13

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