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Charles Peet
Charles Peet (? - ?) from Montreal Canada was a successful club entertainer, specializing in magic, mind reading, singing and playing instruments in the 1920s.
He billed himself at one time as "The Needle King" with advertising stating "performing the Needle Mystery using at one demonstration: 22 Packages of Needles or 26 Loose Needles giving all tests such as drinking, eating, smoking, singing, talking and also performing under X-Ray."
He created and marketed his mentalism routine, "Living and Dead Test" which was written up in The Lost Notebooks of John Northern Hilliard.
References
- TISSUE PAPER TO GIANT FLAG effect in Linking Ring , Vol 3, No. 6 Christmas special, 1925
- Billboard, October 15, 1927
- The Linking Ring, Feb. 1929 Vol. 8 No. 12.