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Ramsay Special user England 638 Posts |
Hey gang
I am looking for some help. I am looking for any posters reproductions or originals and news clippings relating to the cheating the gallows effect especially in reference to Fogel, however any mentalists doing this classic will be helpful. I am not looking for the manuscript cheating the gallows - but publicity material and news clippings or news reels in relation to the effect. If anyone can help please PM me or email me at: www.luke_jermay@hotmail.com Many Thanks, Luke Jermay. |
John Smetana ???? - 2009 499 Posts |
Hello Luke,
You may want to check the Genii archives, if there is such an animal. I seem to recall an issue of that magazine that had a feature article on Fogel and if I'm not mistaken there was an article in there about the Gallows effect. (Perhaps Richard Kaufman could provide a lead as to the issue, etc.) Also, try to get in touch with Richard Mark who is a Fogel buff. He knows and has an awful lot of material on him. Hope this helps, Best thoughts, John Smetana |
Neal Roter Regular user 107 Posts |
Never heard about this effect.
Please describe it. Thanks |
shrink Inner circle 2609 Posts |
I’m not sure but: if cheating the Gallows is the effect where the mentalist is dropped through trap door on a gallows constructed on stage and then left dangling; then there was a Hypnotist in the 70s and 80s called Robert Halpern who was famous for that at the end of each show.
He once got paraded around Edinburgh in a cart tied up and hung on the spot where the last person was hanged in Edinburgh for a publicity stunt. Haplern was brilliant at publicity stunts. He once was playing in large theater in Aberdeen, which wasn't selling. He got someone to run in stage and attack him with a knife screaming he had messed with his wife. The security jumped on stage and escorted the "attacker" to the men’s toilettes and cuffed him to the railings. No one was allowed in until the police arrived and took him away. It was in papers and news, the next show sold out. I got this story from his old late manager. He would do anything for publicity. |
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