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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 81 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN ments headed "Fawkes and Powel," "Fawkes and Phillips," and "Fawkes and Pinchbeck." Powel was the famous puppet man, Phillips a famous posture master (known to-day as contortionist), and Pinchbeck was the greatest of mechanicians. Fawkes seems to have pos- sessed a singular gift for picking out desirable partners. From this mass of evidence I am producing various This prefent Evening, Room, over the Piazza's, at the to the Ray Market, the Famoes, FAWKES pet. formi molt by Mand, with Curinution al that Kind, being what has thew by any of Pelfon with the Agiviry of in Body by before Pitture the Allo or rest performed theye will be Dunces by twe Poiture ID They crimm the and ty be bure Foor righ, and Plemy Dance an tentian with Dis and but one Body ta the Admination of all ato Ing and of the Slack Reprain fishio as war never performed by any other prec Gly at and th-jors Day N. Mow the Clentlemen Place abole, and Hours every any N. may bave: privaté RE an he tof this longer whan the Stalon - to that be Acani ay and Ladies Eancies by Desterity of Hand for thake owa Diverion By Permifion, A the Chriftian Coffee-houle at Smithfield Bano the prefent Evening DE will performent - by Mr. CLENCH of who imiratey the Hom, Pack of Roundi, the Tham Doctor, old deungen Man, und the Beits 1 the Doubte Courtel, the Organ with three Volerity sul are perforged with bis Natural Volie 4 allo - Ellex song by Mt. Clench, after which ma nare - can puform. Clipping from the London Post, February 7th, 1724, in which Fawkes announces his retirement and offers to teach his tricks to all comers. Below this announcement is the advertisement of Clench, famous as an imitator and an instrumentalist. clippings. By a peculiar coincidence one of these I believe offers the most authentic and earliest record of "two a night" performances in England. In my collection are a number of other clippings from the press of the same year, in April and May, 1728, but none of them says "twice a night," therefore I judge [64] |