Adelaide Herrmann
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Adelaide Herrmann was an English-American magician and vaudeville performer billed as "the Queen of Magic". She was married to Alexander Herrmann, another magician.
Herrmann as Sleeping Beauty
Adelaide Herrmann performing
Bullet catch
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The bullet catch is a stage magic illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at them — often in the mouth, sometimes in the hand or sometimes caught with other items such as
Adelaide Herrmann
…Professor Herrmann" or "Herrmann the Great") and Adelaide entertained audiences with a variety of magic tricks, including escape tricks and the bullet catch trick. Adelaide was a key part of many illusions, performing as a levitating sleeper, a human cannonball, a bicycle rider who carried a girl on her…
John Henry Anderson, who performed the bullet catch during the 19th century
William Ellsworth Robinson as Chung Ling Soo
Alexander Herrmann
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