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From the INTRODUCTION. I doubt whether I shall ever forget the
first time I saw Robert Heller, charming entertainer. It was
sometime in the early sixties, at the Chinese Assembly Rooms, New
York, his first appearance, an invitation to the press. He was
almost unheard of. His advance agent, John Hall Wilton, who brought
Anderson, the Wizard of the North, to this country, believing that
Heller would make a more favorable impression as a Frenchman,
persuaded him, clever mimic that he was, to affect a foreign
accent. This he did for a while, but soon gave it up on the plea
that he had been long enough in the country to learn the language.
His opening tricks were nothing surprising, but when he reached his
Second Sight, which was then new, at least to our people, his
reputation was made. His audience was made up, in great part, of
bright newspaper men, who set their wits to work to solve the
secret of that clever trick....
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