Sold for:
$4,800
$4,800
Cardini’s Suave Deceiver one-act play script. New York, 1932. Five-page script outlining Cardini’s act in play form, and submitted to the copyright office in an effort to protect the act from imitators. Attached is a canceled receipt from the US Copyright office dated March 28. 1932. Original fold lines; very good. Houdini used the same strategy of producing a “play” in order to protect his Water Torture Cell feat. Vaudeville acts could not be copyrighted; plays could.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
