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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 98 | THE ORANGE-TREE TRICK great impetus which was felt for several generations. It is not remarkable, therefore, that when the French magi- cian Cornillot appeared in London in 1822 he announced himself as the pupil and successor of Pinetti. This was Extraordinary Chemical Iliustrations, and FEATS or LEGERDEMAIN, M. CORNILLOT, PUPIL AND SUCCESSOR OF THE FANED PINETTI, Seppostfully informe the of the K tropolia, that be contiones . gire Every WEDNESDAY, At the Paul's Head Cateaton Street, And every MONDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, At the Great Room, in Spring Gardene. AMAZUNG ust PEILOSOPEY AND CHEMISTRY, And FEATS OF LEGERDEMAIN, Whish hore escited the admiretion of the le all - principal Toome of - - - - - de - Tes GARDEN, eli Ninde of Revers - - Se - - and - - assudy. - the - of - The de dess - . Novel Sahibilie GLASS or - purprising Ibemical de PURSTITS MYSTSRIOUS PENDULUN, which - - - - Theaghte of - Reholders á. " - pasplesing - gredune - - - aparationa, b, the ald of - THE GRAND TRIUMPH OF PINETTI. OF TUR sum. chich - - - estenales Thestra. Tes INCONCBIVABLE CHALLESOS or being . encessuive - Incresse of is - - of THE GRAND TRIUMPH OF COMUS, Brough - perfoctice by a. CORNILLOT, ANAZING PERFORMANCE OF CAUSING A LIVING PERSON To be is . plase chese be - - beea Revillimitate Thunder 80 naturally, that it will be thought to proceed from the Clouds These - be varied t, of lisporiments esth the Presente, Pome -- Feste of Legordomale, the preseding Eshibitions. x - - Dotal - / - - de - Preparations - f Boncer s. - Opm Pofermances degla precionly, to T. T6, - Asse, N. - de at - - of - - may le - de Seht 18:11 .. - - - - Reproduction of a handbill distributed on the streets of London in Sep- tember, 1829. The orange-tree trick is on the bill under the name of "En- chanted Garden." From the Harry Houdini Collection. when Robert-Houdin was seventeen years of age, twenty-three years before he made his professional début, and on Cornillot's programme we find another version of the now famous and almost familiar tree trick. As will be seen from the accompanying reproduction of a Cornillot handbill, the tree now appears as "An En- chanted Garden," and, if the wording of the bill is to be 6 [81] |