A “MAGIC” FORTUNE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 10

A “MAGIC” FORTUNE.

H°W CUBLHMTZ BECAME fiXTST' Wh ° He was ’£’&£' * 'WVStfS; he d /a ri,CtiSer) that he decided to'C! ™S£lt onnoxiumt^ 116 ? 1 ' i, sa , Ve him his opportunity. He had to give a trial skiM He ot wf arKe 1° demonstrate his **. Jr V lvas an instantaneous suctho se ™nd night lie packed , £ heatre ’. a , iKl continued to do so toi the remainder of the week. He became a “star’-' in a night. His fee r-Sd a fortnight before his death was *' 'Y ee,c 111 and £250 in the provinces. He had earned this salary for more than forty years. He made most of big money, however in the provinces,” said Mr Will G.oldston, vice-president of the Magicians’ Club and the intimate friend of Mr. Hertz, to a Daily Express representative. “Many halls nreferred to engage him on the sharing svstem —50 per cent. each. I have known him make over £9OO a week in this way, not one. hut hundreds of times. Hertz was a brilliant magician, hut he was equally clever as a business man. He put all his savings in bricks and mortar. His speciality was buying up old property and rebuilding. He bought decrepit buildings in good positions in New York and San Francisco, and erected in their places large residential flats, which he let at enormous rents. He also owned property in the West of London, from which he derived a large income. His' estate cannot be worth loss than £200.000 to £300,000 ” Mr. Hertz lived quietlv and modestly in a small flat in Hvde Hark Mansions. He made structural alterations which enabled him to display his “ma"ic” in unexpected fashion to bis guests. He caused furniture to disar>neay nrodnced “ghosts” at unexpected moments, and surprised md imused his visitors in a hundred different ways-