This photo shows a simple method of "table lifting" which has deceived hundreds of persons at false seances, according to "Satani." Frances Lee thinks her "psychic current" is helping make the table "float," but "Satani" is lifting it by means of a ring. The medium presses a secret button which raises a nail-like catch in the center of the table. The medium then lifts the table by hooking a groove in a flesh-colored finger ring-under the head of the nail. Photo dated: April 30, 1930.
Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.) Theaters--California--Los Angeles Auditoriums--California--Los Angeles Magicians--California--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America
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