One problem with the profession of magic is that you start to believe in it. Omens, hauntings, goblins, the whole nine yards of cut-and-restored rope. We had already located and laid down a very rare piece of magic history: the TV pilot for "The Transparent Man," written by Clayton Rawson and featuring his excellent creation, The Great Merlini, one of our favorite magical detectives.
So today, as we prepared to publish, it vanished from the Internet! (We know it was you damned leprechauns!...)
Magicians always have an "out" for when things go wrong, so instead we present to you "The Frozen Lady," a radio drama starring Blackstone as the magician-detective. In 1949, he was the most prominent magician in the land, and radio still ruled the waves.
Blackstone survived the transition to television. Here he is in 1956 doing the act that made him famous:
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