AN AMATEUR magician and escapologist hung from a balcony 40ft high on Blackburn's Palace cinema.
Frank Cooper, an engine-driver from Huddersfield, was lowered upside down from the balcony in a straitjacket. It took him slightly more than 30 seconds to free himself from the jacket.
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