When Selbit arrived in America to tour with his sawing illusion he found that Goldin had registered many possible titles for the act with the Vaudeville Managers ' Protective Agency.

Tibbles began doing a coin and card manipulation act under the stage name P. T. Selbit, which he created by spelling his last name backwards and dropping one of the " B " s. He also used Selbit as a pen name, working as a journalist for a theatrical paper, writing a magic handbook and editing a trade journal for magicians.

In 1912 Selbit began working for Maskelyne and Devant, who had come to dominate the business of magic shows in Britain with their productions at the Egyptian Hall and St George's Hall.

The sawing illusion went through many developments after Selbit and other performers achieved fame and great commercial success for particular variants.

Selbit was thus forced to bill his act as " The Divided Woman ", which had less dramatic impact than the idea of sawing through a woman.

P. T. ( Percy ) Selbit ( 1881 – 1938 ) was an English magician, inventor and writer who is credited with being the first person to perform the illusion of sawing a woman in half.

After the box was placed in a horizontal position, Selbit sawed through the middle of it with a large hand saw.

The impact of the illusion was immense and Selbit became a box office hit.

In 1910 Selbit toured with an illusion titled " Spirit Paintings ", in which audience members were asked to name an artist and then pictures in the style of that artist mysteriously appeared on illuminated canvases.

In 1914 Selbit introduced the " Walking through a Wall " illusion at St. George's Hall.

In fact, Selbit had previously performed the illusion in December 1920 before a select audience of promoters and theatrical agents at the St. George's Hall to try to persuade one of them to book him to perform it.

In 1921 magician P. T. Selbit became the first to present such an act to the public.

Between 1902 and 1908, Selbit worked in music halls under the name Joad Heteb.

Selbit is generally recognised as the first magician to perform such a trick on a public stage, which he did at the Finsbury Park Empire theatre in London on 17 January 1921.

Before Selbit, male and female assistants had both been used in illusions.

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