August 7, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He
tells you the inside story of the Midway Robberies, and
right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you
yourself can perform, reveal the guarded secrets of the world's
greatest living magician. And I'll stand by for Blackstone Magic
(00:59):
that you What under the sun? Is that thing over
there in the corner?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Rhoda done, Hancock, you're speaking The man I love looks.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Like a cross between a mummy and a suit of armor.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh, my feelings are hurt. I think he's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well maybe I would too if you do get over
your girlish raptures and tell me what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That thing, as you call him, it is, ah Jab Junior,
a character, dear to my heart.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ah stop it, Rhoda, what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A Jed Junior is the man I love? And he's
an automatic chess player.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Hey, Jab, the automatic chess player. I've heard of one
of those, but I've never seen one. Does it work?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Does not dummy really play chess?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I thank you not to call the love of my
life a.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Dummy sometimes, Rhoda, I wanna wring your neck?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh careful, hey, Jeb Junior would like that. He's very
particular about who brings my neck.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Rhoda brant you.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
What'sn't the matter done? Rhoda teasing you?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I was asking her about that figure over there the autumn.
I had a chess player and a Jab junior. Yes,
a Jab junior. We're all very fond of him. Oh,
good grief, you two. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Don a jab helped us sell the crime once, imp
we've got sort of the touch to it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You'd be too if he'd done as much for you
as he has for us.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Maybe, But I still wouldn't think he was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh, it's an acquired taste on.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Like all it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What's the story of mister Blackstone? Or is it one
that is full of magicians' secrets that you can't tell?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I can tell this one all right, but uh, first
come over here and meet the a job Junior. I
still think a Jab junior is mighty plane. What does
he do Blackstone? Can he really play chess?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
So the story goes?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Now, see I I would slide back the door here.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
He didn't be pettestal.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Ooh, look at all the machinery inside that guy, and uh,
then I'll slide the other door on this side. Wow,
more machinery. With all that stuff, he ought to be
able to play a terrific game of chess.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
You'd think, so, uh, how does it work?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
What makes us play chess?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's part of the story telling.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Black Ciron very well Lively.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
A friend of mine, Jed TRAYMLL, ran the midway at
an amusement park not part from here.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
One night. Roader and I were driving out to see you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Is this trip business, Blackstone? Or have you suddenly developed
a yend to see an amusement park?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Business? Roder and pretty serious business?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You remember? Jed Traymoll?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Uh huh, funny little man, very serious, rather pussy.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Don't tell me a fuss budget like that is committed
a crime, Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
N No, no, not treymll.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
But crimes, robberies that are that is are being committed
on his midway, and it's giving the place a bad name.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
People are staying away by the hundred.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Any idea who's committing these.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Crimes, Well, everything points to a gypsy fortune teller. He's
got out there, a uh madame lobdell.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Who do you think she's the guilty one?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
She must be and get and yet what every time
a robbery's done, Madam Lovedale has a perfect eliman.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It proves that she couldn't do this tving.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Golly, it sounds funny, Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You tease, it's funny.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Here we are, oh Blacks to her, I'm so glad
you're here. All things have been simply dreadful.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I'm afraid I'll have to go out.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Of business unless something can be done.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Oh, dearie, I don't know what to do at all.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Easy, easy, there, trade more, take it easy, Come on, Roe,
let's go inside.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I thought he wasn't gonna stop talking long enough to let.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Him get out of the car.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Oh, dear me, I should have been more thoughtful, Yes,
indeed I should, But from my own troubles you know,
of course that's no excuse. Well, come with me, Blackstone
and miss the we'll go inside.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Jolly So at last I have the honor to meet
Madame LaBelle, the great fortune teller.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
God, thank you so very much. It is privileged to
meet world famous Luckstone. Thank you, the lovely lady. How
are you let me read your palm a little lady, Ah,
I can see great things for you, great adventures.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
No thanks giving back my hand some of the time.
Perhaps right now, right now, you come to.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Investigate the so unfortunate robberies.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is it not so?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
What can you tell us about the Madame Abelle?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Nothing at all.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
It so happens that every time one of these regrettable
robberies has occurred, I have been elsewhere talking to Tremark
perhaps or to one of the other people here on
the midway.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Tamar tells me that each of the robberies has occurred
to someone whose fortune you've just reamed.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is correct?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
They're not coincident, is it not?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Very?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Did you foretell disaster in any of the problems you saw? Sometimes? Yes,
sometimes not?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
What's my bracelets? Quick? This way?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
The scream is coming from over there the game.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I was standing here right here, and suddenly my braces.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I beg your pardon, madam, But I may be able
to help you the police.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I want to police my diamond bracelet.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'll try to be a little calm in adam and
tell mister Blackstone just what happened.
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Well, I was standing here right here with this automaton,
and all of a sudden, just like that, my brass
is gone.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Sure it didn't slip off your wrists?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Or dear dear, another robbery.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
This is my nerves, your old dear.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yes, see, mister Blackstone, all the ways I have an
alibi just like this one. This is not It is
always the custom I believe to suspect Jeep's a fortune teller.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Looks like this time one fortune teller is in the clear,
doesn't it, Blackstone?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Hmmm, yes, yes, of course you're.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Not even listening, are you?
Speaker 10 (07:13):
Are you not going to try and help me treat
my bracelet? After all, I should think you could do
better than simply turn and stare.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
At at the Tompton.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
This is an automatic chess player, isn't it, Tremont?
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Yes, that automaton is one of the most popular acts
on the whole midway.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I see, where's the man who runs it?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Oh? Well, that's one of the most fortunate things about
the chess player. It runs itself, no labor problems. All
I have to do is move it around from place
to place and set up the chess board. I wind it,
of course from time to time, but that's all.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I've always been intensely interested in these tramwis intensely interested.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
This is an outrage.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
My diamond bracelet is gone, and no one pays the
slightest bit of attention.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm going to the police.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
There's no need for you to rush for the police, madam.
My assistant, Miss Brent, would be glad to go for
you time.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
I hope you'll be able to keep the police out
of here, Blackstone. I hope that you, my friend, would
be able to help me.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I suppose well, I'm cuiding off after the police. You're
going to be sitting here playing a game of chess.
Speaker 10 (08:04):
This is a very peculiar way of acting, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I am going to play a game of chess while
Rhoda goes for the police.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
But you can't do that more business or friendship.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
You just can't play chess, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You can, oh, but I can and I will.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
You know, Tremon, nothing like a game of chess to
settle the nerves wind up your automatic chess player, Traymon,
I am ready to play.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't get it, mister Blackstone. I know you wouldn't
let your friend down like that, and yet and yet
you feel I did well.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I tell Blackstone, we don't want his opinion of you
to think.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
That I knew a great deal about au Tamila done
a great deal.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
And one of the things I knew without a shadow
or doubt, is that there's no such thing as an
automatic chess player.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But a Jeb Jr.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
He's one.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
He is a mechanic figure, yes, but he cannot play chess.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Chess is a very intricate and elaborate and thoughtful game.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
As we all know, no one has ever perfected a
figure that could automatically respond to all the millions of
possible moves in the chess game.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
With all that mechanism inside the figure, pull me.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Those doors that I slid open are so constructed as
to hide an open space where a man could hide.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Could and does Blackstone?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Could?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And does you see done? That's the secret of an
automatic chess player. But the robberies who committed them.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
The man inside the chess player.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
He was in league with Madame Rabelle, the gypsy fortune teller,
and would steve they steal the jewels from the rich
women who came to consult.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And you've played that game of chess to hold the
man inside the automaton, while Rhodo went for the police.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Is that it? That's it? Exactly done?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And so another trick was solved by magic. Well what
kind of a gag are you going to pull?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
On a snow black starck a hank as you tick
caught to the appropriate shouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That could be taken two ways done?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
We'll see, But I'll have to borrow a match from
someone that ought to be easy enough here No, I
mean an.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Ordinary kitchen match made of wood.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Ah this do?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Yes, that's fine. I'm going to wrap this match up
in a handkerchief. Let one of you break it, and
when I open the handkerchief, the match will be whold again,
as good as new.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
On the contrary, Now, just you watch. Here's my own handkerchief.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I'll shake it out so you can see there's nothing
concealed inside of it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's good enough for me.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Now Roder place the match in the center of the handkerchief,
fold it over several times so you'll be sure that.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It can't fall out.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
All right, how's that?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
That's fine. Now you're sure that the match is there. Now,
may I have it please, m here. You can feel
the match stick through the folds of the handkerchief, can't you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, try to say, yeah, yeah, I can feel it.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Now break the match in half while I hold the
rest of the handkerchief.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Break it.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
That's right, all right down, I'll give you the handkerchief.
Shake it loose, and you'll find your match just as
good as new.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
All one piece the world.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'd be right back to tell you in a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, black Stone, we haven't guessed the secret of that
one yet.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well, as usual, it's very simple once.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
You know how well, that's what you always say.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It's all in the handkerchief.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Really, Yes, did you notice anything particular about this handkerchief?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It has a lovely deep hem, I see?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And uh, what else did you notice?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Look carefully?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, well, there's some loose threads in the hem.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
In this trick, you fool your public by putting a
dummy match in the hem before you start.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And when I take the handkerchief can order to let
you break the match in the center. I see to
it that it's the one in the hem that you
break by just manipulting the fools.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Then when the handkerchief is open, out drops the one
I put in the sty.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And the best part of it all is it works
every time.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you like that trick.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
And now until next time, this is Blackstone saying good
magic and goodbye.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
They were us. Next time one the world's greatest living magician,
Blackstone tells us the story of the Frozen Lady and
explains more tricks that you yourself can perform. Listening again
to Blackstone, the world's greatest living magician,
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He
tells you the inside story of the Midway Robberies, and
right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you
yourself can perform, reveal the guarded secrets of the world's
greatest living magician. And I'll stand by for Blackstone Magic
(00:59):
that you What under the sun? Is that thing over
there in the corner?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Rhoda done, Hancock, you're speaking The man I love looks.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Like a cross between a mummy and a suit of armor.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh, my feelings are hurt. I think he's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well maybe I would too if you do get over
your girlish raptures and tell me what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
That thing, as you call him, it is, ah Jab Junior,
a character, dear to my heart.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ah stop it, Rhoda, what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A Jed Junior is the man I love? And he's
an automatic chess player.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Hey, Jab, the automatic chess player. I've heard of one
of those, but I've never seen one. Does it work?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Does not dummy really play chess?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I thank you not to call the love of my
life a.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Dummy sometimes, Rhoda, I wanna wring your neck?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh careful, hey, Jeb Junior would like that. He's very
particular about who brings my neck.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Rhoda brant you.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
What'sn't the matter done? Rhoda teasing you?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I was asking her about that figure over there the autumn.
I had a chess player and a Jab junior. Yes,
a Jab junior. We're all very fond of him. Oh,
good grief, you two. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Don a jab helped us sell the crime once, imp
we've got sort of the touch to it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You'd be too if he'd done as much for you
as he has for us.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Maybe, But I still wouldn't think he was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh, it's an acquired taste on.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Like all it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What's the story of mister Blackstone? Or is it one
that is full of magicians' secrets that you can't tell?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I can tell this one all right, but uh, first
come over here and meet the a job Junior. I
still think a Jab junior is mighty plane. What does
he do Blackstone? Can he really play chess?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
So the story goes?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Now, see I I would slide back the door here.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
He didn't be pettestal.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Ooh, look at all the machinery inside that guy, and uh,
then I'll slide the other door on this side. Wow,
more machinery. With all that stuff, he ought to be
able to play a terrific game of chess.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
You'd think, so, uh, how does it work?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
What makes us play chess?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's part of the story telling.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Black Ciron very well Lively.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
A friend of mine, Jed TRAYMLL, ran the midway at
an amusement park not part from here.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
One night. Roader and I were driving out to see you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Is this trip business, Blackstone? Or have you suddenly developed
a yend to see an amusement park?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Business? Roder and pretty serious business?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You remember? Jed Traymoll?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Uh huh, funny little man, very serious, rather pussy.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Don't tell me a fuss budget like that is committed
a crime, Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
N No, no, not treymll.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
But crimes, robberies that are that is are being committed
on his midway, and it's giving the place a bad name.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
People are staying away by the hundred.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Any idea who's committing these.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Crimes, Well, everything points to a gypsy fortune teller. He's
got out there, a uh madame lobdell.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Who do you think she's the guilty one?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
She must be and get and yet what every time
a robbery's done, Madam Lovedale has a perfect eliman.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It proves that she couldn't do this tving.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Golly, it sounds funny, Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You tease, it's funny.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Here we are, oh Blacks to her, I'm so glad
you're here. All things have been simply dreadful.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I'm afraid I'll have to go out.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Of business unless something can be done.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Oh, dearie, I don't know what to do at all.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Easy, easy, there, trade more, take it easy, Come on, Roe,
let's go inside.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I thought he wasn't gonna stop talking long enough to let.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Him get out of the car.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Oh, dear me, I should have been more thoughtful, Yes,
indeed I should, But from my own troubles you know,
of course that's no excuse. Well, come with me, Blackstone
and miss the we'll go inside.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Jolly So at last I have the honor to meet
Madame LaBelle, the great fortune teller.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
God, thank you so very much. It is privileged to
meet world famous Luckstone. Thank you, the lovely lady. How
are you let me read your palm a little lady, Ah,
I can see great things for you, great adventures.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
No thanks giving back my hand some of the time.
Perhaps right now, right now, you come to.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Investigate the so unfortunate robberies.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is it not so?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
What can you tell us about the Madame Abelle?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Nothing at all.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
It so happens that every time one of these regrettable
robberies has occurred, I have been elsewhere talking to Tremark
perhaps or to one of the other people here on
the midway.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Tamar tells me that each of the robberies has occurred
to someone whose fortune you've just reamed.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That is correct?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
They're not coincident, is it not?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Very?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Did you foretell disaster in any of the problems you saw? Sometimes? Yes,
sometimes not?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
What's my bracelets? Quick? This way?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
The scream is coming from over there the game.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I was standing here right here, and suddenly my braces.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I beg your pardon, madam, But I may be able
to help you the police.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I want to police my diamond bracelet.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'll try to be a little calm in adam and
tell mister Blackstone just what happened.
Speaker 10 (06:41):
Well, I was standing here right here with this automaton,
and all of a sudden, just like that, my brass
is gone.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Sure it didn't slip off your wrists?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Or dear dear, another robbery.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
This is my nerves, your old dear.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yes, see, mister Blackstone, all the ways I have an
alibi just like this one. This is not It is
always the custom I believe to suspect Jeep's a fortune teller.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Looks like this time one fortune teller is in the clear,
doesn't it, Blackstone?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Hmmm, yes, yes, of course you're.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Not even listening, are you?
Speaker 10 (07:13):
Are you not going to try and help me treat
my bracelet? After all, I should think you could do
better than simply turn and stare.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
At at the Tompton.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
This is an automatic chess player, isn't it, Tremont?
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Yes, that automaton is one of the most popular acts
on the whole midway.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I see, where's the man who runs it?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Oh? Well, that's one of the most fortunate things about
the chess player. It runs itself, no labor problems. All
I have to do is move it around from place
to place and set up the chess board. I wind it,
of course from time to time, but that's all.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I've always been intensely interested in these tramwis intensely interested.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
This is an outrage.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
My diamond bracelet is gone, and no one pays the
slightest bit of attention.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm going to the police.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
There's no need for you to rush for the police, madam.
My assistant, Miss Brent, would be glad to go for
you time.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
I hope you'll be able to keep the police out
of here, Blackstone. I hope that you, my friend, would
be able to help me.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I suppose well, I'm cuiding off after the police. You're
going to be sitting here playing a game of chess.
Speaker 10 (08:04):
This is a very peculiar way of acting, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I am going to play a game of chess while
Rhoda goes for the police.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
But you can't do that more business or friendship.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
You just can't play chess, mister Blackstone.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You can, oh, but I can and I will.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
You know, Tremon, nothing like a game of chess to
settle the nerves wind up your automatic chess player, Traymon,
I am ready to play.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't get it, mister Blackstone. I know you wouldn't
let your friend down like that, and yet and yet
you feel I did well.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I tell Blackstone, we don't want his opinion of you
to think.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
That I knew a great deal about au Tamila done
a great deal.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
And one of the things I knew without a shadow
or doubt, is that there's no such thing as an
automatic chess player.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But a Jeb Jr.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
He's one.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
He is a mechanic figure, yes, but he cannot play chess.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Chess is a very intricate and elaborate and thoughtful game.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
As we all know, no one has ever perfected a
figure that could automatically respond to all the millions of
possible moves in the chess game.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
With all that mechanism inside the figure, pull me.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Those doors that I slid open are so constructed as
to hide an open space where a man could hide.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Could and does Blackstone?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Could?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And does you see done? That's the secret of an
automatic chess player. But the robberies who committed them.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
The man inside the chess player.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
He was in league with Madame Rabelle, the gypsy fortune teller,
and would steve they steal the jewels from the rich
women who came to consult.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And you've played that game of chess to hold the
man inside the automaton, while Rhodo went for the police.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Is that it? That's it? Exactly done?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And so another trick was solved by magic. Well what
kind of a gag are you going to pull?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
On a snow black starck a hank as you tick
caught to the appropriate shouldn't it?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That could be taken two ways done?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
We'll see, But I'll have to borrow a match from
someone that ought to be easy enough here No, I
mean an.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Ordinary kitchen match made of wood.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Ah this do?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Yes, that's fine. I'm going to wrap this match up
in a handkerchief. Let one of you break it, and
when I open the handkerchief, the match will be whold again,
as good as new.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
On the contrary, Now, just you watch. Here's my own handkerchief.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I'll shake it out so you can see there's nothing
concealed inside of it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's good enough for me.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Now Roder place the match in the center of the handkerchief,
fold it over several times so you'll be sure that.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
It can't fall out.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
All right, how's that?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
That's fine. Now you're sure that the match is there. Now,
may I have it please, m here. You can feel
the match stick through the folds of the handkerchief, can't you.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, try to say, yeah, yeah, I can feel it.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Now break the match in half while I hold the
rest of the handkerchief.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Break it.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
That's right, all right down, I'll give you the handkerchief.
Shake it loose, and you'll find your match just as
good as new.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
All one piece the world.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'd be right back to tell you in a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, black Stone, we haven't guessed the secret of that
one yet.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well, as usual, it's very simple once.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
You know how well, that's what you always say.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
It's all in the handkerchief.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Really, Yes, did you notice anything particular about this handkerchief?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It has a lovely deep hem, I see?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And uh, what else did you notice?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Look carefully?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, well, there's some loose threads in the hem.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
In this trick, you fool your public by putting a
dummy match in the hem before you start.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And when I take the handkerchief can order to let
you break the match in the center. I see to
it that it's the one in the hem that you
break by just manipulting the fools.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Then when the handkerchief is open, out drops the one
I put in the sty.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
And the best part of it all is it works
every time.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you like that trick.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
And now until next time, this is Blackstone saying good
magic and goodbye.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
They were us. Next time one the world's greatest living magician,
Blackstone tells us the story of the Frozen Lady and
explains more tricks that you yourself can perform. Listening again
to Blackstone, the world's greatest living magician,
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