Obituary: Jack Kodell by The Stage

The first magician to introduce parakeets and later budgerigars into his act, Jack Kodell played the London Palladium, the London Hippodrome and the Savoy Hotel. In the act entitled A Fantasy of Birds, he produced parakeets out of thin air. But perhaps his most startling illusion was a version of the Indian rope trick, in which a parakeet climbed to the top of the rope and then vanished in a puff of smoke.

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