I’m reading Gypsy Rose Lee’s mystery The G-String Murders. She mentions, in passing, something called a “gazeeka box”:
Googling is…not very helpful. (Plus, it just turned up a spoiler for the book…crap!) It seems to be some kind of magician’s prop, but nothing I can find is specific.
So what’s a gazeeka box?
Well, if anyone ever finds out, you can tell Google Answers and let them know too. 
Only one person has posted a bit of info, probably from the same source you have.
Yeah, that second link’s the spoiler. Not that I’m surprised to see that that particular character won’t be surviving to the final reveal…
While the Gazeeka box in Gypsy Rose Lee’s story is probably not the chasis of an Australian made moisture gauge offering Instantaneous, Peak and Average Moisture display capabilities, the people at http://www.gazeeka.com.au/ might know where the name comes from. E-mail them.
I thought *gazeeka * was just one of those generic magic terms like abracadabra.
The Gazeeka Box was used in a burlesque sketch called… The Gazeeka Box.
The book The Best Burlesque Sketches: As Adapted for Sugar Babies and Other Entertainments, by Ralph Allen has a complete script of the sketch starting on p. 133, with a drawing on p. 137.
And to clear up another piece of [mis]information that’s found in almost every older source: Georgina Ann Rudolph, the marvelous writer who wrote mysteries under the name of Craig Rice (among others) and was Gypsy Rose Lee’s press agent, probably did not ghostwrite The G-String Murders. Lee herself is now acknowledged to be the true writer.
I can find a 1909 newspaper ad for a musical comedy called The Gazeeka.
Also a 1920’s newspaper article wherein a racing boat was named The Gazeeka. So certainly the term goes back a bit.
And now I read Exapno’s info, I’ll leave quietly.
What’s a “gazeeka box”?
Good question. Several possibilities. Take your pick till something more definitive come along!
“as they pasted on what passed for costumes in a stuffy box that passed for a dressing room.”
The moisture device made by the Gazeeka Co.
Just a made up nonsensical name.