tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476836446638612873.post2146783199386566192..comments2024-03-27T02:30:04.482-05:00Comments on Carnegie: Magic Detective: Adelaide Herrmann and the 1926 FireCarnegiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10142955905272650610noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476836446638612873.post-53820089239680180712012-08-12T17:00:14.658-05:002012-08-12T17:00:14.658-05:00Houdini offered Adelaide a Noah's Ark illusion...Houdini offered Adelaide a Noah's Ark illusion, but since she'd lost all her trained performing animals it was a well-meaning but somewhat insensitive gesture. Adelaide never performed Noah's Ark again. It took her a while to regroup and put together a new, simpler act, called "Magic, Grace and Music." While she picked up the pieces and hit the road again (at age 73 and against the advice of her friends) she was never quite the same again after the 1926 fire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476836446638612873.post-67897336379013143042012-08-12T09:05:37.486-05:002012-08-12T09:05:37.486-05:00Very interesting. Thanks Dean.
Not sure I've ...Very interesting. Thanks Dean.<br /><br />Not sure I've ever heard about Houdini suppling Adelaide a new Noah's Ark. Very cool.John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.com