Wallace, the Magician, is coming to Waynesville this Thursday night to give one performance in the school auditorium.
It used to be thought wonderful if a magician could produce a live rabbit from a borrowed hat. With sleeves rolled up, Wallace catches pigeons from nowhere. Where do they come from? As, it is of no avail to strain your eyes, for Wallace is cleverer than you, and it is enough after all that the pigeons seem to materialize out of thin air. It is a beautiful act, poetic in conception and enchanting in its performance.
In the finale, Wallace will present one of the most spectacular illusions on earth, called the “Super-Vanish Extraordinary.” In this effect of all the live ducks, pigeons, rabbits and a beautiful lamp burning on a table will vanish like a flash in one shot. The tables and everything come apart for examination, and not a trace of the live stock can be found. It is a wonderful art. No wonder that Wallace made such a tremendous sensation abroad while in the United States Naval Reserve Force. No wonder that he has played before King Edward at Sandringham, before Abdul Hamid, when he was sultan of Turkey, and before the Czar of all the Russias.
From the front page of The Carolina Mountaineer, Waynesville, N.C., Nov. 9, 1922. According to Magicpedia (geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wallace_Lee), William Wallace Lee was born in Loan Oak, Georgia, Aug. 7, 1892, and moved to Durham, N.C., where he began his career as a magician. He enlisted in the Navy, playing the trumpet in the Navy Band, and after the war put together a magic act and started touring. He died in Durham May 12, 1969.
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