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Richard Hatch

Have a look at this short presentation called “Magicians of India “ it’s truly fascinating and amusing when one hears the clipped tones of the English narrator .....From Archieve .org ..... https://archive.org/details/MagiciansOfIndia The narrator sounds American to me. Strangely, the initial and f...

Richard Hatch

PS: If the winning bidder is going to MagiFest in Columbus next week and wants to save the shipping charges by taking delivery there, I'm happy to hand deliver it.

Richard Hatch

Still a couple hours before the bidding ends... https://tinyurl.com/yb7udf6f Happy to see that with a few hours left, this has already passed the threshold for donations in Bob Einstein's honor the memorial fund at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Thanks to all who have (and still will!) bid on...

Richard Hatch

I ran across these to clips of Ricky Jay today while looking for something else. I wasn't familiar with either and suspect others might not be as well. Here's Ricky on German Television in 1989 promoting the German edition of his book, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Richard Hatch

Is that presidential candidate Pat Paulsen who is sweeping up? The same! He and Bob Einstein worked together on the Smothers Brothers Show just prior to this book. Paulsen is featured "sweeping up" on the last 5 pages of the book, and quoted on page 92, staring at the camera saying "...

Richard Hatch

Bob Einstein, who passed away yesterday (January 2, 2019), wrote a book in 1970, shortly after losing his job as a comedy writer for the cancelled (but Emmy winning!) Smothers Brothers Show, in which he supposedly is shown performing magic with a coin, an egg, a deck of cards and a rabbit production...

Richard Hatch

All I know is this. Erdnase sounds so much like Mark twain, it's crazy. Martin Gardner apparently thought so, too, and explored the possibility that Twain might have helped edit or ghost the book for Milton Franklin Andrews, since both were residents of Hartford, Connecticut and billiard players. B...

Richard Hatch

The upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced a new award named after the late Ricky Jay: This year, the festival will also have a new honor, the Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award, named for actor and magician Ricky Jay and in honor of a film made by a master filmmaker that exemp...

Richard Hatch

Here's some very good footage, posted recently, that probably shows his act at its prime in 1977:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZCBFJcM9o

Richard Hatch

Congressman Pocan has attended the last few MagiFests. A very nice guy and serious about his magic.

Richard Hatch

I got John Olsson's More Wordcrime book just now, with its final chapter on Erdnase (thanks for the reference to it, Richard Stokes!). At a glance, it appears to cover the same ground as in Wasshuber's original release: Olsson still says that there are "362,880 permutations of the letters that ...

Richard Hatch

Short retrospective on CBS this morning:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/magicians-magician-remembering-sleight-of-hand-master-ricky-jay/

Richard Hatch

Terry Gross's Fresh Air broadcast on Ricky Jay:
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672210854/remembering-master-magician-and-sleight-of-hand-artist-ricky-jay

Richard Hatch

"DR. W. VERNON"!!?? The article lists D.W. Vernon., then Dr. W Vernon. Maybe David Wingfield Vernon? A new version of the Telephone Game .... with "magic scissors". Appears to be a simple typo rather than an honorific, since the article later refers to him as "Mr. Vernon&qu...

Richard Hatch

There are lots of references to Jim Temple in MUM, LINKING RING and other magazines, including the German magazine, MAGIE (he spent several years in Frankfurt in the mid-1960s). Here's an interesting quote from the November 1990 LINKING RING, p. 143: Forty or so years ago, Jim invented the Color Mon...

Richard Hatch

... I think he actually gambled and lost quite a bit... He says that was the case in the "Professional Secrets" section when he says that he "bucked the tiger voluntarily" and "began to imbibe wisdom in copious draughts at the customary sucker rates..." and also in the...

Richard Hatch

Boris Wild has a set of lecture notes that includes a chapter on the topic of creating standing ovations. It is available on his website here:http://www.boriswild.com/magicshop/Boris_Wild_Artist_Magician_-_Magic_Shop_-_Lecture_Notes_Creativity_%26_Impact_%28PDF%29.html

Richard Hatch

James Alan noted today on the Cafe: We are pleased to announce that The Magic of Johnny Thompson is now sold out, and officially out of print. Although individual dealers may still have individual copies in stock, so if you look quickly you may still be able to get one. Because of the size of the b...

Richard Hatch

Magic and gambling collector Tom Blue has posted a video championing a candidate for Erdnase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ol6T_Ne35U& I am sure that William Symes Andrews has been proposed before. I believe that Todd Karr explored W. S. Andrews some years ago. I had also been told that Al ...

Richard Hatch

Magic and gambling collector Tom Blue has posted a video championing a candidate for Erdnase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ol6T_Ne35U&

Richard Hatch

Here's a link to a CBC interview with the Amazing Johnathan about his life in conjunction with a film about him to debut in Vancouver this Saturday: https://tinyurl.com/yar3527y Here's a link to the film debut with more info and an amazing poster: http://www.jflnorthwest.com/2018-film-festival-lineu...

Richard Hatch

The Geffen Playhouse in LA, which has hosted "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants" (2006 & 2008) and "Rogue's Gallery" (2010), Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães' "Nothing to Hide" (2012), and more recently DelGaudio's "In & Of Itself" (2016), has announ...

Richard Hatch

Short interview and a nice video clip of Alain Nu performing an ACAAN for Washington Post reporters:
https://tinyurl.com/y7jotkrp

Richard Hatch

I heard a promo this morning on the local NPR affiliate saying that Derek DelGaudio would be the guest on this weekend's broadcast. Looks like the live event was last Monday: https://www.nprpresents.org/event/ask-me-another-in-brooklyn-ny-14/ Check your local NPR affliate for broadcast times. For mi...

Richard Hatch

Wow, Jonathan Neal's article detailing his handling of the classic "Egg on Fan" is easily worth the price of a year's subscription to anyone interested in this feat! Looking forward to his future installments as well. Thanks!

Richard Hatch

Definitely, the republication of the material, both by Magico Magazine (with Bob Lund's index) and later the beautiful and greatly expanded edition by Todd Karr's Miracle Factory, made the original magazine version less "in demand", since the information was then readily available. Both th...

Richard Hatch

Great to see David nail the Unshuffled routine. He also has the best presentation for this trick I have seen. David's handling and presentation is great, but I think this version by the great Juan Tamariz is the best "unshuffled" presentation I have ever seen, framed as an homage to Georg...

Richard Hatch

This Google Talk video was posted in December 2015, but I only just ran across it and don't believe the link has been posted here previously (if it was, worth re-posting for others who might have missed it!). Wonderful performances by the great David Williamson and mentalist Colin Cloud followed by ...

Richard Hatch

Francis Menotti is listed as the "Magic Consultant" for 9 episodes, so that bodes well for the magic end of things.

Richard Hatch

Thanks for bringing that to our attention, it does look interesting. The Introduction by John McLaughlin, former director of the CIA and a proficient magician, is available to read as a preview of the book on the amazon site and makes extensive references to magic, calling Whaley's books the espiona...

Richard Hatch

It prevented the situation where he sits at a gambling table, introduces himself as E.S. Andrews, and is immediately associated with the book. I have played poker five days a week for over ten years and not once has anyone ever introduced themselves by anything other than their first name. I'm not ...

Richard Hatch

jkeyes1000 wrote:In cases like this, the author wished to remain pseudonymous...

I'm not convinced we know this about the author's wishes.

Richard Hatch

Here are two general public books that might be of interest: https://www.amazon.com/Bandit-Secret-Has-Two-Faces/dp/3791355643/ by Derek DelGaudio and Glenn Kaino, with contributions by Teller, Ricky Jay, David Blaine, etc. https://www.amazon.com/Here-Real-Magic-Magicians-Search/dp/163286424X/ by Nat...

Richard Hatch

This is a good book about him, which includes references to his magic:
https://www.amazon.com/Many-Lives-Endfield-Blacklist-Wisconsin/dp/0299303748/

Richard Hatch

Quick Facts for James M (W) Andrews: Scott Edward Lane's Candidate for S. W. Erdnase 9. His family was related to the Milton Franklin Andrews family. 10. His business associate, co-owner of the casino and family relative was related to Eva Howard, the woman killed by Milton Franklin Andrews. 11. Hi...

Richard Hatch

Lance Burton!

Richard Hatch

Gabe Fajuri's Quicker than the Eye website has a rare book section:
https://quickerthantheeye.com/ and his auction company, Potter & Potter frequently features rare magic books in its auctions:
https://www.potterauctions.com/

Richard Hatch

The true mystery in the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde http://www.swerdnase.net Any Questions? Scott, thanks for sharing your research. Some very interesting stuff. A couple of quick questions: You mention that your great aunt, Edna Galloway, gave you the "Erdnase artifac...

Richard Hatch

Potter & Potter sold a moderately rough condition 1st edition copy today, for $5k plus bidder's premium. And another copy sold on eBay today for less that 1/10 that price! Someone's getting a nice Christmas present (not me, alas!): https://www.ebay.com/itm/True-first-printing-of-Erdnase-The-Exp...

Richard Hatch

Paco Rodas is a very skilled coin magician living in Sevilla. I'm sure there are others there, and he probably knows them all. He's active on facebook and twitter and has several youtube videos. The local magic association has a website: http://www.seisevilla.com/ Here's the website of the local mag...

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