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1. The opening scene is in a theatre, where a magician is performing an act with a blonde assistant. The trick ends with a long saber being run through her while she is suspended from a scaffold. The magician is a very successful, powerful, and demanding man. What is the name of this magnificent marvel?
2. The assistant and wife of the magician is by his side, but unwillingly. She detests being forced by her over anxious husband to witness the unveiling of his new toy. The magician also plans to rehearse a new act that night, after dinner. Who is the assisting wife, who is not enthused to be a part of such a drastic display?
3. The story advances twenty years to a young blonde woman on her way to a funeral. The funeral is for the magician himself. The reporters covering the ceremony are in awe of this attractive but distant woman. One of them asks who she is and the magician's manager spills the beans about her. Who is the mysterious blonde, who is actually the magician's grown daughter and heiress?
4. The magician has a few stipulations in his will. One of them is for his casket to be bound by chains and equipped with a glass window to display his face. His daughter is outraged by this sideshow and tells her father's manager so. Who is the magician's manager and press agent?
5. The magician's will reading is held at The Hollywood Bowl, while Beethoven's "5th Symphony" plays. His press agent, daughter's former nursemaid, and daughter attend. Everything is left to his daughter. His press agent and daughter's former nursemaid have nothing but fond memories of the heiress's great father. The daughter offers to let her former nursemaid stay at the house. The nursemaid says she couldn't do that. It is his daughter, the magician wants to come back to. Who is the former nursemaid of the magician's daughter?
6. One of the reporters at the funeral takes a special interest in the heiress and eventually falls in love with her. This reporter is talked into keeping his identity from the magician's daughter and getting a story on the family background. He follows her to the estate and winds up going to her rescue when she discovers a scary prop in the house. Who is this dashing reporter, posing as a land developer?
7. The holy man who performs the funeral service share the heiress's feelings, and is quite shocked at the way the affair is handled. He cannot believe the funeral is turned into a sideshow. What title does the mortified holy man hold?
8. The editor from the local newspaper is talking to the reporter who gets involved with the magician's daughter. They are looking at her mother's picture and a back story about her disappearance. The editor shares the facts about what happened then. Who is the editor that covers the story on the family scandal?
9. The heiress is describing her aunt, who has hands like sandpaper. Her aunt doesn't think too much of the career path taken by the parents. She believes the abandoned girl is better off without the irresponsible couple. Who is this responsible aunt?
10. A housekeeper is set to stay with the magician's daughter. This old woman is cantankerous and doesn't do windows or heavy housework. The heiress warns her housekeeper that her father was a magician and there may be some things she hears. Who is the light housekeeper, who becomes the second victim to the light switch gag?
11. There is another reporter from the funeral who shows up at the estate to question the heiress further. This already has her infuriated; then her
charming land developer shows up at the same time and gets himself exposed. Who is the reporter who inadvertently tips off the heiress about her new acquaintance?
12. There is another inhabitant at the mansion. This inhabitant is white, quiet and able to launch sneak attacks on the poor heiress during her stay. One of these surprises is when a hat box is knocked over and a head, resembling the magician's wife, rolls down the stairs at their daughter. Who or what is this jack-in-the-box like presence that keeps the heiress company?
13. The magician's manager is being sought by the reporter who has become friendly with the heiress. The manager is found at a tavern. A small man behind the bar is asked where the press agent can be found. What huge name does this small man have?
14. The lawyer who handles the magician's will is aghast over the extraordinary location where the reading is held. The attorney tells the daughter that if he'd known the ridiculous circumstances the proceedings were being held under, he wouldn't have agreed to represent her father's estate. What is this sensible lawyer's name?
15. On the third night during her stay, the magician's daughter is alone and awakes from a ghastly nightmare. She hears chains and follows the noise up to the top floor, where there is a room that was once locked, but is now open. There is a guillotine in the room that is in set position, but that is not the only strange thing. A coffin-like box holds a headless body in it. Who does the body belong to that the heiress finds?
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