Designer: Guy Jarrett

Jarrett described his effect in Jarrett Magic. It’s an early Jarrett effect, probably from his San Francisco show in 1908 according to Steinmeyer as written in The Complete Jarrett. It was used in the Downs’ illusion show of 1910 and in the Thurston show before Bangkok  Bungalow until Jarret replaced the illusion with his Pedestal.

The assistant carries a table on stage. She sets it on the floor and a long coat with a fastened hat is attached to a rope hanging above the table. The assistant drapes the coat around her and steps onto the table facing away from the audience. The audience can see she is still there as she adjusts her hat. The coat is then pulled up and it revolves showing the assistant has vanished. The coat and table are then removed from the stage.

Jarrett felt the illusion was “a thousand times better than Thurston’s putting seven girls […] through Dilger’s old candle stick” but that “it has no place in a good show.”