"Everything he says contains some unexpected form of merriment everything he does produces some unexpected and strange result," the reviewer wrote.Īfter his 1886 trip to Australia, Simmons continued to take his illusions as far afield as India and South Africa, performing until his death in 1899 at the age of 63. The key to the trick is a complicated trapdoor mechanism, but it was Dr Lynn's stagecraft that sold the illusion.Īs one reviewer wrote in the Sydney Daily Telegraph in 1886, "Dr Lynn is a gentleman full of surprises". In the Vanishing Lady, an assistant sits on a chair, has a sheet thrown over her and vanishes into thin air - an illusion so simple and effective that variations of it are still performed today. He persuaded illusion inventor Buatier De Kolta to allow him to use his new Vanishing Lady trick on his Australian tour - it's believed to be the first time the illusion was performed. Dr Lynn's 'Thauma' illusion featured a woman who appeared to be missing the bottom half of her body.
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