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SHOWMAN
anella turned up in New York years afterwards and made himself quite a name by hypnotizing a famous actor and a famous dramatist in a demonstration for the press, I put him under contract and toured him all round with such success that I forgave him and I think he forgave me. He was still a master hypnotist but he was also still a master hand at getting results with or without hypnotism. He had a stunt then of taking a subject by the hand and being led blindfolded, without a spoken word of instruction, to find something hidden where only the subject knew of it. It never missed either— but I noticed Satanella always picked some fat and elderly gentleman for subject. That way, after he'd run the subject all over the hotel where the test would be made, up and down stairs, round and round the lobby, outside, inside, topside and belowside for half an hour, the victim would be so worn out that he'd lead Satanella to the place out of self-defense.
During another lean period, my ability at playing female roles spelled me over. I acted the part of Kathleen Mavourneen, the lady in the song, in a variety showing of the famous old optical illusion called ''Pepper's Ghost." That was an arrangement of plate glass and mirrors which, when worked right, really did give an audience the impression of seeing visions floating in the air. It was rather a trick to put it over though, because the actors, down in a pit beneath the stage, had to go through their gestures lying on their sides against a surface slanted at an angle of forty-five degrees— some
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