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Brad Jeffers

I resurrected this five year-old thread to make a pretty modest point about Doug Henning not appearing in any childrens' magic books that also contain historical tidbits about magicians. I have no familiarity with children's magic books. Is this a single book to which you are referring, or is there...

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I took a water jug, cut the hole in the bottom ( 2 hour job) glued a "cork" in the top, nailed that to a board, went to the local playground,poured jugs and jugs of water into the clear water jug, hung upside down with inversion boots, did reverse squats pulling myself up after I couldn't...

Brad Jeffers

I can also say that moving print plates, which at that time were made from lead is logistically almost impossible, because they are very heavy, need two or more people to carry one plate. Moving them from one printing house to another is a logistical nightmare. Two or more people to carry one plate...

Brad Jeffers

Seems like deja vu.
How many of these signs did this guy's grandfather make!?

Brad Jeffers

I believe it was held at Rosoff's until some of the guys split and began meeting at a cafeteria. The daily meetings at Rosoff's were documented by Joe Berg in his column, "Around the New York Magic Table", in M.U.M. magazine. Rosoff's closed in 1981 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkinthe...

Brad Jeffers

Richard Kaufman wrote:What is it?

I assume it would be THIS.

I would also assume that since this is his first post, nornado is probably Antonio Battaglia or Antonio Cacace

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Dante's opening night at the Morosco Theatre

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Milbourne Christopher had a Broadway show, Now You see It, in 1954 at the Longacre Theatre.

Any mention of Blackstone performing on Broadway would be referring to Jr., not Senior.

Brad Jeffers

Have you seen Michael Carbonaro's world famous Shaving Dream act?
Well, HERE IT IS.

Brad Jeffers

Richard Kaufman wrote:At least he didn't use a pseudonym!

If he had, I suppose it would have been R.E. Ttirrf.

Brad Jeffers

To quote Eugene Burger, "The house of magic has many rooms".

The internet provides us with the toilet room.

Brad Jeffers

Dante produced and starred in the Broadway show, Sim Sala Bim, at the Morosco Theatre in 1940.

Brad Jeffers

I can't say which routine is better, but if you want the complete set of props for Tommy Wonders's routine, they are now available from Joe Stevens ...

Brad Jeffers

This is discussed HERE.

Brad Jeffers

Xeroxed Marlo Magazine ... hmm

Weren't all issues of Marlo's Magazine Xeroxed copies?

Wasn't the Xerox machine the "printing press" for most of Marlo's works?

Brad Jeffers

Matthew Buchinger book by Ricky Jay

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This topic brings to mind the movie The Words with Jeremy Irons and Bradley Cooper.

Brad Jeffers

Although both are shameful acts, plagiarism of a written work seems even more egregious than the type of plagiarism we sometimes see in the magic community. If I were to see someone doing an exact rendition of Ricky Jay's Exclusive Coterie , I might be appalled by the thievery, but I would have to a...

Brad Jeffers

Being able to demonstrate a move for an illustrator and actually using a move under fire are two entirely different things. How true. The Complete Illustrated Book of Card Magic has 378 photographic illustrations of, "the author's hands demonstrating the sleights for this book". I don't f...

Brad Jeffers

I simply suggested that the book was likely a group effort, and that Roterberg may have participated - the evidence (YES!) being that both his and "Erdnase's" books were submitted for copyright within two days of each other... and, coincidentally (?), Roterberg's book was published by Dra...

Brad Jeffers

El Mystico wrote: he did have the opportunity to think about magic; and we probably all feel uncomfortable with some aspects of how he got that opportunity.

What does that mean?

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I thoroughly enjoyed the first book of the Vernon biography. If Mr. Ben is still keeping an eye on this thread, when might the second book see completion? While waiting for volume II of the David Ben book, you might want to take the shorter route of learning to read Italian, and getting a copy of t...

Brad Jeffers

Which leads to the real issue: intention. ...the intention of the artist and the audience are critical to the condition of art. Note to artists ... Please take a few moments to write on the back of the canvas, what your intentions were when doing this particular painting. i.e. "I was attemptin...

Brad Jeffers

Bob Farmer wrote:Does anyone have JP's email address? I gotta learn that routine.

You can purchase the routine HERE for $22.46

Brad Jeffers

If you are interested in magic performed with one hand, you might want to get a copy of The Legend of Mac McDonald by C.C. Allen.

There are not a lot of details on the actual handling of the effects in McDonald's repertoire, but it is an interesting book nonetheless.

Brad Jeffers

Here you go Dustin ...

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Compare and contrast this offering from Drummond Money-Coutts,
"Magician Unto the World's Elite" ...

Brad Jeffers

Why do the same trick eight times in rapid succession? If you think eight is to many, then you might prefer Eric Decamps' Jokers are Wild , which has only six transformations. The definition of a "Wild Card" routine is that you have a single card that is more powerful, hence "wild,&q...

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Here you go Curtis ...

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Looking at the table of contents it would appear that about 70% of the book is devoted to the "Billy and Me" sections, wherein people such as Lance Burton, Johnny Thompson, Teller and others (12 in total), recount their experiences with Billy. While I'm sure that such stories are interesti...

Brad Jeffers

I guess he was also just trying to make you pay more, and was left holding the bag.

Brad Jeffers

Richard Kaufman wrote: I was just making the other guy pay more. I already have one.

Despicable!

Brad Jeffers

Alexander discovered that Sanders liked to write anagrams of his name in his school notebooks. It is therefore not unreasonable to believe that Sanders created the name S.W. Erdnase as an anagram of his own. If I were named W.E. Sanders and had been working on anagrams of my name for several years,...

Brad Jeffers

Brad - in Bob's trick they are not "gaffs" - they are the output of a magical effect - results. Actually Jonathan, in Bob's trick they are gaffs. Two double-faced and two double-back cards used in conjunction with sleights to produce magical effects. The very definition of a gaff. In orde...

Brad Jeffers

Bob Farmer wrote: So, they are convinced the cards are completely ordinary in every respect.

Then they are allowed to handle them, and are now convinced that the cards are no longer ordinary.

They have been magically transformed into the gaffs.

I see.

Brad Jeffers

I'm just glad that Card College was put out in book form, and not as a series of tweets

Brad Jeffers

In my marketed packet trick, "Mutanz," the ending leaves the spectators with two double-face cards and two double-back cards. In performing this routine numerous times, no spectator ever suggested the cards had something to do with the prior effects I believe that the spectator will find ...

Brad Jeffers

"Your approval is not needed"

Brad Jeffers

it is psychics who use the direct methods and practices of magicians to their evil end Do you put fortune tellers, mind readers, spoon benders, mediums, and all of these into the same catagory of evil doers? For me there are many shades of gray when it comes to how I feel about people purporting to...

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