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Svengali Trio

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Svengali Trio was a Vaudeville act in the early 1900s that performed Second Sight.[1]

In their act, Hugo Lorenz (or Lorenzo) would move about the theater receiving whispered requests from the audience for specific musical selections or the names of celebrities. Without Hugo saying a word, the pianist, Elsie Terry, would break into the suggested melodies or the make-up artist, George Stuckenberg, would transform himself into a resemblance of the famous person named.

They toured the world until around 1920.[2]

Also billed as "The Lawrence Svengali Trio", "The Lorenz Svengali Trio", "Svengali and Trilby", and "Svengali and Miss Terry".

References

  1. Henry Ridgely Evans. The Old and the New Magic. (1906):
  2. Psychic Paradoxes by John Booth (1984)