I've been looking into this T.H. Selbit character, and I found a couple of interesting things. Selbit apparently launched his "Wicked Pandemonium" in 1913, with an act called The Separated Woman. It was your basic "sawing a lady in half" trick. After his act was copied by other people he later re-named it to The Original Separated Woman. I found this poster from 1924:
What is strange is that when I googled "Separated Woman", way down in the searches I found this. It is from the November 30th edition of the Petersburg Daily Index from 1913. The very same year Selbit launched his "Wicked Pandemonium". Co-incidence?
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