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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 301 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN day, and indeed proved that he was capable of execut what he pretended to. I saw him perform frequen and remember it as well as if it was but yesterday. said he was an Italian; he was short and squat, SOLVS stevr SOL FAMA VOLAT EFFITIES DE BLASIS DE SICULE Blasius de Manfre or Blaise Manfrede, from a rare old woodcut in the H Houdini Collection. chest, face, forehead, eyes, and mouth very large. pretended to be fifty years old, though he did not se forty. "He was called the famous Blaise Manfrede, a nat of Malta. At Francfort he frequently performed th times a day: for, besides his performances twice a C [272] - |