|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: my engagements at the Palace Theater, New
York. He was then soliciting orders for some
photograph firm, the halcyon days of his big
money having faded to a memory. But he had
been a good showman and his was one of the
best liked working acts in the Curio, as the
dime-museum profession was called.
Of all the acts of this nature that I have
ever seen I think the most foolhardy was that
of an under-sized Italian who lay on his back
on the floor and let fall from his hands,
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
