How a Muswell Hill magician starred in silent movies | Hampstead Highgate Express
Walter Robert Booth around 1898 - Credit: The Davenport Collection For seven years, Victorian magician Walter Robert Booth starred in films for early cinema pioneer Robert Paul in Muswell Hill. Walter Robert Booth in a film by Muswell Hill cinema pioneer Robert Paul - Credit: Supplied Booth's act included conjuring tricks, lightning cartooning, sleight-of-hand, mind-reading, illusions and quick change impersonations. It's possible that he met Paul while appearing at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, 'England's Home of Mystery'. It was there in 1896, that Hampstead-based magician David...
Source: hamhigh.co.uk