Show Inventor o of Great Illusion Starts T 1 Lawsuit Special to The TeJ Telegram i t NEW YORK Nov 6 The The long along drawn d drawn awn controversy between Horace Goldin the magician and P P. T T. the European Illusionist over the priority priority rights to the vivisection effect known as Sawing a Woman In Half Halt has after attracting worldwide att atten n tion finally found Its way Into the tho courts Application for a a. permanent Injunction Injunction tion was made last week In the United States district court by Goldin through his attorney Arthur Fullman Pullman of ot Broadway Pro forming the the the- to o Illusion restrain n f In th lb the from ro United n performing per per- performing fd States and to prevent the circuit for which Is now playing from further further further fur fur- ther booking the act t According to the papers filed Goldin claims to have originated the Illusion back In 1906 st at t which time he called it n Vivisection lIe He sets forth that in iou he produced and presented the efY ef effect effect ef- ef Y t in n England Egypt India Java China Japan and many other countries throughout he world I In 1919 Goldin says h he greatly improved Im- Im proved the Illusion and submitted It to John Ringling with a view to placing It in the latter's latter s circus under the name of ot Sawing Saw ing a Woman in Two It was under this title that Goldin asserts he presented the effect In April last and ever ever since and still Is presenting the same In the leading vaud lle theatres of t the United States ADVERTISES ADVERTISES ILLUSION WIDELY IDELY T Goldin claims that he has spent considerable considerable con con- money in advertising the illusion illusion illusion sion and contends that as a a. result the public and managers of theatres believe that any act or illusion under the title of If Cutting a Wor an In Two Is the thenet net act which he conceived and Is now pre- pre renting Notwithstanding this Goldin asserts that presented the latter's version versIon version ver ver- sion of the Illusion under the title of ot Sawing Through a Woman or The Divided Woman at the fourth Forty Street theatre New York during during- the week of September 26 and that endeavored to convince his audience that he was cutting a woman In two Since that time it Is said has presented his act in other theatres which It Is la alleged has permitted the defendant to advertise his act as Sawing Saw Saw- SawIng Ing a Woman In Two PUBLIC MISLED 1 GOI GOLDIN DIY SAYS Goldin claims claim that by bv reason of this the public and managers have been misled and deceived and have en engaged aged the services of the defendant and have ave ave paid for admission to the theatres i of the defendant circuit In the belief bellet that the act so 50 presented was was was' that originated originated tiff and pre presented by the plain plain- v As a result Goldin says says' he has lost the benefits and profits of or his act which ch might have accrued had hall he rot not T been een prevented from producing the same In those cities clUes where has appeared Goldin estimates the amount I of ot loss to be In excess of ot Sawing Saw Saw- SawIng a wIng w- w Ing a Woman In Two Is being offered us ItS a special added attraction at Loews Loew's State theatre starting starting- today the thA act I opening Its loew LoeY bookings In Salt Lake |