Al Mann - Dunninger's Act

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Copyright (1983) by AME

art ~eien~ ~arly in 1926, at the age of 34, Joseph Dunninger, who considered himself a greater magician than Houdini, foresaw that he could make more money and become world famous if he stopped competing with Houdini as a stage magician and devote his full time to being a 'mindreaderJ' So he put his tons of illusions away and went to baffle the world with slips of paper as he signed a contract to Headline in the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. The following details of his show were taken by an anonymous observer. A manuscript with the details was secretly sold to magicians without Dunninger's permission. Dunninger was so irked by it that he exposed his own method in the November 1927 issue of Science and Invention, and then denied that it was the method he used. (Fig. 1 below)

A Mind Reading Secret

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that it is not I am disclosing the system herewith,

s.n~al IUJsistants walk among the audience distributing _A~l .1itp, of paper. The mind reader requests that the -:'dl