Blackstone Detective - Frozen Lady

The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone. He tells you the

inside story of the frozen lady. And right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks

that you yourself can perform. Reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest living

magician. Magic Detective, now stand by for Blackstone, the Magic Detective. In all

Blackstone of all magicians tricks, I think escapes and vanishings of the most interesting

of outsiders. They seem to be. I wish you'd tell me more about them. Oh, you're snooping

on forbidden ground on. Those escapes and magicians secret. Yes, I know, but maybe that's

why they're so interesting. I've told you about several of them already done. I know

you have, but like Oliver Twist, I still ask for more. Oh, I know a story you've never

told in Blackstone. Oh, which one is that, Rhoda? Remember Genghis, the Swami? I think

you mean the pseudo-Swami. Well, what's the story of Blackstone? Well, it was there Mrs.

Reginald Van Antwerp, a society leader. She opened the little theater on her estate for

a benefit a little while ago. The main feature of the evening was an exhibit by each of several

well-known magicians. It was a contest, really, to see which magician

could perform the most startling trick. The program had gone along uneventfully until the

arch-before-mind. Rhoda and I were standing in the wings watching the exit.

And now, nice people, the Swami Genghis.

Tonight, I will show you a trick that will misstify all. But, I must have helped.

Is there a young woman in the house to assist me? Come now, there must be some young lady

who will allow me to please her in a block of ice. It will be paying, but I promise you.

Emma, come here, my dear. Genghis, this is my daughter, Emma. She'll be glad to assist you.

Thank you very much. Now, young lady, you will sit on this stool.

Oh, yeah. That's right. Now, look straight into my eyes. Yes, into my eyes.

Yep, look at them, huh? It looks like it. What do you think he's gonna do, Blackstone?

You freeze her while hypnotized into a block of ice. The ice will freeze. They'll chop it over

and she'll have vanished. It's a good trick. I'll say otherwise.

I'm giving you this drink. It's magic drink.

So, I'll know it all. That's right. Now, we're going to see, to see.

I don't like that. I don't like hypnotism much myself, but them.

Oh, look, Blackstone. She's unconscious.

He's lifting her and putting her in that...

It's a coffin, Blackstone.

That's just a trick-roader to build a suspense. A very effective one.

Look how the audience is taking it. You can't hear a sound.

God, they are still, aren't they?

Now, we will allow water to run into the sarcophagus of the living dead.

The sarcophagus is feeling, feeling.

Worth not at the beautiful maiden, or unconscious.

Worth a spirit locked out of her body.

He could not survive the ordeal.

Oh, and that's what it is, Blackstone.

He's doing it very well. It's amazing I haven't heard about him before.

Yeah, that is funny, isn't it? You know most of the magicians.

And now, the ep.

I shall start the freezing apparatus.

And soon the sarcophagus will be a solid, Black device with the maiden frozen within.

She is freezing. She is freezing.

The maiden is freezing into a solid, Black device.

The ice is forming around her heart.

Stop! Stop!

Stop it! Stop it!

I can't let my daughter go through this.

Mrs. Ben Antford.

He, before it is too late.

It is too late.

What do you mean? Too late.

You have broken the spell, Mrs. Ben Antford.

The spirit of your daughter was hovering between two worlds when you cried out.

Your scream has broken the spell.

Quick, help me someone.

I've opened the block.

I'm going out there, Rhoda and help her.

Break open the cake of ice.

Stand here by me, Rhoda. This may be serious.

I'll need your help.

You know, this isn't part of the act.

Well, a bit ill. It's one of the coolest I've ever witnessed.

She's gone, Mrs. Ben Antford.

You have murdered your daughter.

Don't leave my daughter.

Her spirit is doomed to hover between the two worlds forever.

Unless I can call her back.

Oh, God, thank God.

We must have sayon since we must work.

It may take years to undo the work you did in a single second.

It may take years or it may be impossible.

Oh, my daughter.

Take my gun out of the bag out there, Rhoda.

Go down the room directly under this one and hurry.

Who would I do this?

You know when you get there, hurry.

I will fall to the spirit and see if somehow someday

they will be kind and release your child.

I will establish contact with this spirit.

Speak to me, O spirit.

Speak to me.

We must have silent, quite delighted.

Complete silence.

The gods do not care for crying.

Fear it to the outer darkness.

Send back the child who have taken from us.

Send her back to us. Send her back.

I will see to the return of this spirit.

That's enough.

Mr. Blackstone, please.

Ganga says must be quiet.

Your child is safe, Mrs. Van Antwerp.

You do not understand, Mrs. Van Antwerp.

Grant your man.

Don't let him escape.

Stop him.

Hold him.

Stop him.

My only chance to call back my daughter.

Rhoda, please.

Did you all right?

Yeah.

She's pretty badly shaken from the fall, but she's all right.

What do you mean?

You see, Mrs. Van Antwerp.

I am a magician, too.

Hey, that's quite a story, Blackstone.

Isn't it?

Every time I think of the sound of that Swami's voice, my blood cradles.

But tell me, Blackstone, how did you call Mrs. Van Antwerp's daughter back from the spirit world?

I didn't.

Do you mean you were just fooling her for a month?

Of course not.

Well, that's very simple, really.

An old magician's trick.

The daughter hadn't vanished at all.

But when the block of ice was chopped open, she was gone.

Yes, she was gone, because she'd never been in it.

What do you mean?

The Swami had put her in the coffin, flooded it with water, froze in the water, and the girl had vanished.

She'd vanished before the water was put into the coffin.

The bottom of the coffin was a trap.

Dore you see that let her down into the room below.

She wasn't even hypnotized.

That drink of water, the Swami gave her, contained dope.

You see, Blackstone had done this trick often.

He knew what was supposed to have happened.

But why did the Swami pull the gag about her spirit being between two worlds?

I bet he's wondering that himself along about now.

What do you mean?

Well, he's got plenty of time for wondering.

Why?

He's in jail.

This trick of his was a very fancy kidnap.

Being an extortion racket.

He'd finished the daughter.

You see, and then hold many expensive sales.

Paid for by the heartbroken mother to dry and bring back the girl.

Well, that's one of the cruelest ideas I've ever heard in my life.

It's taken his.

Well, I'm awfully glad that this was another mystery that you could solve, Blackstone.

Yep, it was another mystery solved by magic.

And I'll turn another trick, Blackstone.

One that our listeners can perform after you tell them how.

All right.

Tell me now, what kind of trick would you like?

Why not show us a hat trick?

That is one without rabbit.

We've ever heard of a hat trick without rabbit.

Why not make it a card trick, Blackstone?

Well, now, just to please both of you, I tell you what I'll do.

I'll show you a hat trick with a pack of cards.

That sounds swell.

Here's the pack card.

And here are two hats.

Which one do you want?

I'm going to use both.

First, we spread the pack of cards along the table like this.

A face-down.

Hmm.

What next?

I want you each to take a card, but don't let me see those cards.

Oh, I'll take one from over here.

It's the left.

And I'll take one from the center.

Good.

Now, while you're looking at those cards, I'm going to put the rest of the cards in a hat.

Now, here it goes, the whole pack.

Well, what do we do?

Remember our card?

Yes, and show them to each other if you want.

But don't let me see them.

You bet we won't.

Now, I take the hat with a pack in it.

And on it, I set the other hat.

And now, I want you to put your chosen cards back into the pack.

How do we do that?

The pack is inside the two hats.

Well, just hold your cards face-down and slide them between the two hats.

Oh, like dropping a letter in a mail box.

That's it.

Here goes mine.

And here's mine.

Now, pick up the hats and shake them, so you mix the whole pack.

Choosing cards and all.

That's a fine idea.

Well, here it goes.

Well, let me try a hand at that mixing gun.

Oh, here you are, runner.

Now, if you find those cards backstone, you will be good.

I'll find them in very easily.

Now, hold the hat's high-roader.

Then remove the top one.

Yeah.

Now, I'll reach into the lower hat.

And...

Yes, he is somebody's card.

And he is the other.

Well, my card was the Sixth of Spade.

And mine was the Nine of Diamonds.

Well, take a look at the two cards I drew.

The Sixth of Spade's the Nine of Diamonds.

Both right.

One chance in 52 when he did it twice.

But how did it?

Let roader think it over, Don.

And in a few minutes, I'll be back to tell you how.

Well, I suppose you two want to know how I picked the cards from the hand.

I'll say we do.

Then he has me baffled.

And thousands of our listeners are probably trying to trick right now, wondering how in the world it can be done.

All right, Don.

When you and roader were looking at the cards you took, I put the rest of the pack into the hat to be done.

That's right.

There was something else I did, only you didn't notice it.

Well, how could we?

We were looking at our cards.

Well, it wouldn't have mattered if you had watched me.

The thing that happened took place inside the hat.

Here.

Look at these cards, roader.

But the pack of cards is banned.

That's right.

I'd ban them when I put them in the hat.

But our two cards were not banned.

That's right.

And that's how I found them.

And all you had to do was reach in the hat, find the straight card, and you had them.

That's the trick.

Remember, two cards are taken first.

While people are looking at them, you put the pack in the hat.

And then I mean the pack.

Yes, you bend the pack.

Then put another hat on top.

And let the people push their chosen cards between the hats, then shake the hats to next the card.

Exactly.

Then reach in the hat, then find the two straight cards.

It'll fool them every time.

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you like that trick.

And now, until next time, this is Blackstone saying, good magic, and goodbye.

May with us next time, on the world's greatest living magician, Blackstone,

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