'Vanishing act': UK Magic Circle seeks disappearing woman

London: Britain s Magic Circle has launched an appeal to track down a woman it expelled over three decades ago for posing as a man to gain admittance...

London: Britain's Magic Circle has launched an appeal to track down a woman it expelled over three decades ago for posing as a man to gain admittance to the formerly male-only magicians' society.

The London-based international magic organisation now wants to apologise to Sophie Lloyd who was ejected in 1991 for "masquerading as a male".

Efforts to locate Lloyd, however, have so far drawn a blank.

"It's almost as if they just made her vanish from thin air, tried to brush it under the carpet, but obviously now the story has come out and we're so desperate to right this wrong," Laura London, the first female chair of the Magic Circle, told The Guardian.

Lloyd, who had posed as Raymond Lloyd for 18 months, unmasked herself as a woman when the organisation voted to admit women in 1991.