Claude Delair Aka Mac Norton The Human
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Claude Delair Aka Mac Norton The Human
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Mac Norton (born Claude Louis Delair, 1876 - 1953) was a French magician billed as "The Human Aquarium". As a child, he developed the ability to swallow and then regurgitate small quantities of water. As an adult, he saw that other magicians were making a good living as regurgitators, so he developed his own act, learning to swallow great quantities of water and bread, and even live animals. On one of his show posters, he proclaimed, "I say I am an extraordinary scientific phenomenon like the quadruped mammal with four stomachs (the cow). I drink a punch bowl of water containing 220 liters in 2 hours 30 minutes. 100 glasses of beer in 10 minutes. I eat 208 loaves of dry bread of 1 pound each in 48 hours. I swallow fishes, turtles, frogs, water snakes alive by the dozens. I keep them not more than 2 hours in my stomach, just as Jonah in the whale, then I return them alive, even more alive than ever in their respective aquariums." His tours took him all over Europe and South America, but he could not practice his trade in North America despite a contract with producer Willie Hammerstein, for a show in New York at Victoria Theater, because of the American Society for the Prevention of animal cruelty. No artist credited, undated.
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