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BODIE, Walford (1869 – 1939). Dr. Walford Bodie. The Famous Bloodless Surgeon. Hartlepool: F.W. Mason, 1914. Two-color broadside for a variety bill at the Hartlepool Palladium, Bodie topping a bill with his “startling electric wonders,” said to be “funnier than half-a-dozen pantomimes.” Also on the bill is his son, Albert, who presents a conjuring turn, and at the bottom of the bill Bodie appears again as a ventriloquist, with an act entitled “The Laird’s Highland Party.” Framed to 12 ½ x 36 ½”. Not examined out of frame. See Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, p. 128.