That Alexander didn't do it while the $10,000 that was offered - I think that was the publicity at the time, is that right? Well whether or not it was makes no difference. This has to come at an opportune time, or you might term it an inopportune time. PRESS AGENT: Yes, and have nothing public because the minute you make it a public thing it would look like publicity. Other words all you would need is a signed statement that it was. Houdini in the matter would be to say, 'Well, at last it came!' And there wouldn't be any public demonstration or anything of the kind of it. PRESS AGENT: And the only thing that would be necessary for Mrs. At the time of this recording, Alexander was retired and living in California. Runny'? Alexander was a famous mentalist and magician who also authored books on the paranormal.

The first (undated) record contains a remarkable phone conversation between Edward Saint and a man identified on the label as 'Great Alexander's Press Agent.' I'm not sure of the man's real name, but at one point Ed appears to call him 'Mr. Each record is labeled with the name of the person being recorded. The recordings themselves were made on 'Howard Home Recording Discs.' Each side contains approximate four minutes of conversation. While these do not include Bess, what they do contain is pretty wild! But now the recordings have been heard and Mark has graciously allowed me to share the details here. These remarkable recordings are owned by our good friend Mark Willoughby, who for years didn't know himself what these records contained. Because today I'm excited to reveal two of them! No one can tell me what happened to the voice records: they simply disappeared.'

Later Booth said, 'Across the years, I have tried fruitlessly to find out who obtained these recordings from the Houdini estate. Magician John Booth first discussed Saint's secret recordings in a 1966 issue of The Linking Ring. In the 1930s and 40s, Edward Saint recorded private phone conversations while he and Bess lived in Hollywood.

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