A magic event at The Enchanted Hall, Laureston, Douglas, Isle of Man, in the 1950s:
* Salamander (Percy Cowley, magician) performing a silent act (to music)
* Mary Kinson performing a silent act (to music)
* Compere and comic magician, Arthur Culpin, performs a cut and restored rope trick
* Alistair (from Scotland) performs a ventriloquism act with doll called Joy
This is a part of 'Mysteries: The Alexander Cannon Tapes'; the strange and wonderful personal audio recordings made in the 1950s by the psychiatrist, occultist and magician, Alexander Cannon (1896–1963).
The collection offers 6 hours of historically important recordings including Cannon’s own thoughts and lectures, events in The Enchanted Hall, demonstrations of the Levitating Egyptian Mummy, The Great Coffin Mystery, Thoughts in the Air and “the great wonder of the Atomic Lights – the shape of things to come.”
These recordings were released by Culture Vannin in 2021.
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