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SEALED VISION

The X-Ray Eye Act

Written by Will Dexter eBook Version

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About the cover: The gentleman pictured is Kuda Bux. During his lifetime, Kuda’s outstanding

technique and showmanship helped him earn international acclaim with the X-Ray Eye Act. The

following brief bio is from an article by Bill Larsen, Jr. in Genii Magazine.

The Man With the X-Ray Eyes

Kuda has just returned to the Magic Castle from a tour of Canada with Peter Reveen. He was a

sensation and will again join the Reveen Company, if plans work out, to tour Australia later in the

year.

As near as I can make out from the clippings (and I don’t want to ask Kuda as this is to be a

surprise) Kuda must be either 69 or 70 years old having been born in Aknmur, Kashmir, Pakistan

in either 1905 or 1906. Early in his life he realized he had an ability not shared by many. This was

concentration. We are all aware of the five senses but Kuda was to develop within himself a sixth

sense or inner sense.

Through his successful years of performing he has been headlined in papers around the world as: “The

Wonder of the Century;” “One of the most famous ‘Makers of Magic’ who ever came out of the East;”

and the “8th Wonder of the World.”

In the thirties he made headlines in England (which were to be repeated in the U.S. in the forties)

with his fire walking. A fire trench 25 feet long and six feet across was filled with seven tons of

logs and a ton of charcoal. At the time the coals were hottest, Kuda Bux walked from end to end

barefooted, not once but twice. Others tried but were badly burned. The temperature of Kuda’s feet

was taken before and after the walk and found to be the same. The event was written up in English

medical journals.

Kuda Bux has been X-Rayed after causing his heart to stop beating. He is able to stop his pulse at

will. In the forties he played vaudeville and theaters with an illusion show. What has made him famous

and kept him famous through the years, however, is the act that earned him the name, “The Man

With The X-Ray Eyes.”

He shows two pads of bread dough and has them pushed into his eye sockets. Over these go two

thick layers of cotton. Then 12 yards of bandages are wrapped around his head and eyes. Finally three

table napkins are tied over everything.

In this condition Kuda Bux can read, ride a bicycle, drive a car and trace on a blackboard anything

written by a member of the audience including foreign words and phrases.

I suppose I must be a skeptic because I feel there must be an answer as to how he does it but I

have watched him time and time again performing at the Magic Castle and I swear what he does is

impossible. You have to see it to believe it. When all the bandages and dough are removed at the end

of the act you have to believe that Kuda Bux has a power that we do not.

For the past few years, Kuda has made his home in Hollywood and when not working, is in the Magic

Castle almost every night playing cards with his friends Dai Vernon, Joe Cossari, Hy Berg, Bruce Cervon,

and whoever else he can con into a game. He frequently wins but claims he could win every time if they

would only let him blindfold himself. This I believe.

SEALED VISION

The X-Ray Eye Act

Written by Will Dexter

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD by Peter Warlock........................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................9

Section One: TRANSPARENT BLINDFOLDS...................................................................................11

Unprepared Silk Foulard.............................................................................................................11

The Divided Bag (1)....................................................................................................................14

The Divided Bag (2)....................................................................................................................17

The Felt Mask ............................................................................................................................19

The Leather Mask ......................................................................................................................20

The Perforated Coin...................................................................................................................21

Calvert’s Perforated Business Card.............................................................................................24

Painted Goggles.........................................................................................................................25

Magnetised Goggles ..................................................................................................................27

Polarised Goggles......................................................................................................................28

Clear Spot Goggles ....................................................................................................................29

The Faked Newspaper................................................................................................................31

Paper Bag Blindfold (1)...............................................................................................................32

Paper Bag Blindfold (2)...............................................................................................................33

Paper Bag Blindfold (3)...............................................................................................................34

Friction Scarf Blindfold...............................................................................................................35

Section Two: METHODS USING THE DOWNWARD GLIMPSE ..........................................................39

Reversed Crease Blindfold..........................................................................................................39

Blindfold Plus Pads.....................................................................................................................41

Peter Warlock’s Pad....................................................................................................................43

Surgical Plaster Blindfold............................................................................................................44

Sightless Vision .........................................................................................................................45

Watch Glass Reflector ................................................................................................................48

The Button Reflector..................................................................................................................50

The Tray Reflector ....................................................................................................................51

Duncanson’s “Sight Unseen” ......................................................................................................52

Section Three: SUBTLETIES .........................................................................................................53

One-Ahead System.....................................................................................................................53

Prior Observation.......................................................................................................................54

Stage Setting .............................................................................................................................55

Property Plot..............................................................................................................................57

Forcing......................................................................................................................................58

Card Set-ups..............................................................................................................................60

Memorising ...............................................................................................................................61

Genuine Blindfolds.....................................................................................................................62

Psychological Approach to the Audience....................................................................................64

Section Four: PUBLICITY AND PROGRAMME IDEAS.......................................................................67

The Blindfold Drive ....................................................................................................................67

The Blindfold Cycle Ride ............................................................................................................68

The Letter Delivery.....................................................................................................................68

A Suggested Stage Programme ..................................................................................................69

APPENDIX...................................................................................................................................73

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