INDIAN ROPE TRICK

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 July 1939, Page 4

INDIAN ROPE TRICK

CHALLENGE TO CONJURERS LONDON, June 17. Is the Indian rope trick a conjurer’s illusion, oi‘ a piece of magic? Has it really been done, or are the stories about its performance just fabrications? The mystery may soon be solved —by a Hindu “magician,” who plans shortly to come to Britain. He is Professor P. C. Sarkar, and he declares he can do the trick. The feat consists of making an ordinary rope stand straight up in the air without any visible means of support. An assistant ’then climbs the rope and vanishes from sight. Professor Sarkar has challenged the occult committee of the London Magicians’ Club to arrange a public demonstration of his-show.

■ “I claim to be the only man in the world to-day able to perform this trick, the secret of which many famous magicians have failed to obtain, despite the expenditure of much time and money,” lie says. It is claimed that Professor Sarkar, without any fuss, can lick a red-hot iron bar; drink all kinds of acids and poisonous drugs; eat a mixture of broken glass, pins, needles and deadly snakes; swallow red-hot liquid lead; and walk on fire. <