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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 212 | THE INEXHAUSTIBLE BOTTLE grammes used by John Henry Anderson, the Wizard of the North, in the same years. According to these programmes Phillippe and Anderson showed the bottle empty, filled it with water, and then served five different liquors. On April 30th, 1838, Anderson thus announced the trick on a programme used at Victoria Rooms, Hull: "Handkerchiefs will be borrowed from three gentle- men; the magician will load his mystic gun, in which he will place the handkerchiefs; he will fire a bottle con- taining wine, the bottle will be .broken and the handker- chiefs will appear." Programmes in my collection show that Anderson pre- sented the trick, serving various sorts of liquors, when he played London in 1840, but little attention was drawn to the wonderful bottle. In 1842 Ludwig Döbler, Germany's best-beloved magician, came to London and featured what he termed "The Travelling Bottle.' Ludwig Leopold Döbler was born in Vienna in 1801. He was the best-beloved magician who ever trod the stage. He started life as an engraver of metals, but his fancy turned to necromancy. He gave his best performances in his na- tive city. In 1841 he was touring Holland, and in a letter now in my possession, which he wrote to a director and editor in Vienna under date of March I5th, 1842, he in- forms his friend that he has sent all his baggage to London from Amsterdam, and is on a visit to Paris. He regrets that he has not all of his apparatus with him, but has given several performances, and mentions the fact that " to-morrow I am engaged to give a performance in the private parlor of Rothschild and then by the Count [ 185 ] |