The Billet Article - The Magic of Memories

This article is taken from The Billet Issue - 421 - Mar 2007, Authored by Melvyn Shalks

The Magic of Memories

I must have been eight or nine when I was taken to the Leeds Empire to see Kalanag.

What a show !

It had a lasting effect on me and I can still visualise his "Water from India", a giant lotus vase used as a running gag.

His "Asrah" illusion really got my imagination going..like erm giant magnets. Certainly beats the masked magician.

This picture is from a postcard presented to all visitors to a Northern Magic Circle dinner.

See what you dieters are missing.

The nearest show we have to this these days is

THE HEY PRESTO SHOW

Tickets available from Keith Pickles (or Bradford Theatre's Box offices)

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