Today is the birthday of Alfred Sylvester, Sr. (1813-1886), billed in variety halls as the Fakir of Oolu. Sylvester started his professional career in his native England as an assistant to inventor John Henry Pepper, who devised a method of creating illusions like ghosts and moving statues on stage. Soon after going off on his […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:47AM on October 17, 2013