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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 162 | THE OBEDIENT CARDS Astley, the circus man, and Hooper's "Recreations," in four volumes, published in 1784, expose the same trick. As to magicians who performed the trick, their names are legion, and only a few of the most prominent conjurers will be mentioned in this connection. The man who obtained the best effects with this trick was John Henry Anderson, who startled the world of magic and amusements by his audacity, in 1836, nine J. H. Anderson's birth place as drawn by him from memory. The follow- ing is written under the sketch in his own handwriting: A rough sketch of the farm house called ' Red Stanes,' on the estate of Craigmyle, Parish of Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire. The house was built by my grandfather, John Robertson, in the year 1796, and in it I was born on the 15th day of July, 1814. John Henry Anderson." Photographed from the original now in the possession of Mrs. Leona A. Anderson, by the author. years before Robert-Houdin trod the stage as a pro- fessional entertainer. Anderson was born in Kincardine, Scotland, in 1814, and started his professional career as an actor. He must have been a very poor one, too, for he states that he was once complimented by a manager for having brought bad acting to the height of perfection. Anderson was first known as the Caledonian magician, then assumed the title of the Wizard of the North, which 10 [ 145 ] |