Edward Morrell Massey

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 3rd February 1893 - 15th November 1964) Advertiser. Semi-pro magician. Illusion builder-inventor in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in 1930s-50s, for W.W. Durbin, Howard Thurston, etc. Invented the Penetration Frame (1927), Piercing a Woman = Rod through Body (1931), Vivisection (1933), Finger Chopper (by 1941 when sold to Holden), Sawing through a Cigarette (by 1941), It's a Stopper (by 1941), It's a Corker (1943), Squeezaway Block (Mar 1946), Cabinet of Deodar (Aug 1946), Ribbon Fantastique (by 1947), Color Flight (Jan 1947), …