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4 unusual facts about Sigmund Neuberger


Sigmund Neuberger

In May 2011 Edinburgh Festival Theatre, built on the site of the Empire Palace, hosted the "Great Lafayette Festival", featuring magician Paul Daniels, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Neuberger's death.

The body of Lafayette was apparently soon found and sent to Glasgow for cremation.

The event included, on 9 May, a live webcast seance held by the "Edinburgh Secret Society", led by co-founders Professor Richard Wiseman and Dr. Peter Lamont.

Beauty died four days before the opening of a show at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh.



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