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Soft Soap

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Soft Soap is a routine created by Dr. Howard B. Kayton in which dirty handkerchiefs placed in a cardboard soap box come out clean. The box is torn up and shown empty.

Marketed in 1941 by Stuart Robson and winning the award for best "sucker type" effect in Genii magazine for the next year[1]. It was still very popular in 1949 as seen in the Genii-Orben Poll.

It was featured by Russell Swann, John Mulholland, Milbourne Christopher.


References

  1. Genii 1942 August