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by Richard Hatch
February 24th, 2024, 10:33 am
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Magician paid to create fake political robo calls
Replies: 4
Views: 841

Re: Magician paid to create fake political robo calls

In above, should have been "I'm surprised he did it for just $150..."
by Richard Hatch
February 23rd, 2024, 2:38 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Magician paid to create fake political robo calls
Replies: 4
Views: 841

Re: Magician paid to create fake political robo calls

He's leveraging his 15 minutes. NBC has photos and a video demonstration of the voice faking technique. I'm did it for just $150 (the fake Biden voice recording):
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-e ... rcna139760
by Richard Hatch
February 13th, 2024, 12:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

I think the Hugh Johnston/Del Adelphia/Erdnase meeting is worth exploring and it has been sporatically discussed in this forum thread in the past, mostly as a vote against Milton Franklin Andrews (MFA) if it happened as Johnston recalled it to Jay Marshall in the 1950s. As noted above by Bill Mullin...
by Richard Hatch
February 8th, 2024, 11:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Back in July 2015 Bill Mullins mentioned in this thread the use of the pseudonym Sirronje for E. J. Norris. The current issue (January 2024, #199) of Magicol has a well researched and written article by Gary Hunt on Sirronje, a female escape artists whose husband's name (Edmond J. Norris) spelled in...
by Richard Hatch
February 6th, 2024, 8:26 pm
Forum: Collector's Marketplace
Topic: Donate Magic Books
Replies: 5
Views: 882

Re: Donate Magic Books

VanishingInc solicited book donations for junior magicians at the last MagiFest. They may have an ongoing program that would benefit from such donations. The College of Magic in South Africa would also likely love some donations, though the cost of shipping is likely high...
by Richard Hatch
February 6th, 2024, 4:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

This talk by Marty Demarest was posted online 9 years ago in September 2014, but only brought to my attention recently. It includes references to Erdnase and a performance of 3 Card Monte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdHGUcw2xtc
by Richard Hatch
January 23rd, 2024, 12:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Just watched this. I was also not aware till David Ben posted about it here that this had been released. Checking my emails from the director, Jim Davey, I found that my interview was taped in Las Vegas during Magic Live in August 2015. I enjoyed it, particularly seeing clips of David Alexander's pr...
by Richard Hatch
January 17th, 2024, 12:07 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Gibeciere Ambigram
Replies: 3
Views: 856

Gibeciere Ambigram

The Winter 2024 issue of Gibeciere has an ambigram by Scott Kim on the cover. I thought that the letters GIBICI when read upside down in Hebrew translated to PANDA, which made sense to me, since they are printed in China. But I have been reliably informed that is not a correct reading. Any other sol...
by Richard Hatch
January 9th, 2024, 8:04 pm
Forum: Collector's Marketplace
Topic: Selling off collection
Replies: 9
Views: 1924

Re: Selling off collection

John Cannon of Aladdin Books is in Fullerton and might be interested. Andy (John A.) Greget is in Arizona and often travels to LA for Castle Swap Meets and such things. Byron Walker is in San Francisco. I imagine all three will be in Long Beach for the Magic Collectors Expo, but that is not till ear...
by Richard Hatch
December 30th, 2023, 4:35 pm
Forum: Collector's Marketplace
Topic: FSH: Kellar’s Wonders – Caveney/Miesel
Replies: 10
Views: 2339

Re: FSH: Kellar’s Wonders – Caveney/Miesel

That is a great price! If I didn't already own a copy, I'd jump on it (wouldn't sell my copy for that price!).
by Richard Hatch
December 23rd, 2023, 6:45 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Worthwhile Kickstarter Campaign for Great Chop Cup Set Done with Dice Cups and Dice
Replies: 96
Views: 34041

Re: Worthwhile Kickstarter Campaign for Great Chop Cup Set Done with Dice Cups and Dice

Joe Naud wrote:How did you contact him? I would like to join you getting my cups.

Peace, Joe

I heard from him at the address cubismmaestro AT gmail.com
by Richard Hatch
December 23rd, 2023, 1:50 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23286

Re: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst

My set arrived today and I have seen postings on Facebook of others receiving theirs over the past few days. The books are really magnificent and a great contribution to the literature. Kudos to the Conjuring Arts team for doing this, especially to Bill Kalush, the late Lori Pieper, and Maxwell Prit...
by Richard Hatch
December 21st, 2023, 3:05 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Worthwhile Kickstarter Campaign for Great Chop Cup Set Done with Dice Cups and Dice
Replies: 96
Views: 34041

Re: Worthwhile Kickstarter Campaign for Great Chop Cup Set Done with Dice Cups and Dice

Just a note to say that I did receive my Kickstarter Cubism Maestro reward from Dave Forrest today.
by Richard Hatch
December 20th, 2023, 10:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Alex Romanoff interviews Richard Evans about E. C. Andrews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cebGY61Hc
by Richard Hatch
December 9th, 2023, 2:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Of possible interest: A copy of Howard Thurston's Card Tricks (London, 1901), inscribed by the author to Harry S. Thompson in Chicago on May 11, 1902 (just two months after the publication of TEATCT) just sold at a Potter Auction (Item 151) for a hammer price of $1,300. Per Peter Zenner, this copy m...
by Richard Hatch
December 8th, 2023, 4:14 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Kalanag
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Kalanag

Another semi related tid bit of gossip along the same lines is that I have always been a bit taken aback by is that the author of the classic "Amateur Magicians Handbook" June Mussey AKA Henry Hay was also the translator of Mein Kampf into English! Mussey was one of several translators of...
by Richard Hatch
December 7th, 2023, 10:35 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Kalanag
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Kalanag

Typo, sorry: "Siegfried Borries"
by Richard Hatch
December 7th, 2023, 10:18 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Kalanag
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Kalanag

Thanks for that reference in the Speer book. Neither Schreiber nor Kalanag are listed in the index of the English language edition ( Inside the Third Reich , 1970), but there it is on page 318: "We started at dawn in my new plane, a four-motored Focke-Wulf Condor. It had unusually long range be...
by Richard Hatch
December 6th, 2023, 5:19 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Kalanag
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Kalanag

There might also be a mention of Schreiber in Speer's third book, Infiltration , about Himmler and the SS, but I doubt it (again, if someone has it and can check, let us know!). Schreiber, as president of the German Magic Circle, did succeed in having the public exposure of magic secrets made a fede...
by Richard Hatch
December 6th, 2023, 4:46 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Kalanag
Replies: 19
Views: 2532

Re: Kalanag

He was mentioned in Albert Speer's book on the Third Reich... I posted that video because I assumed people would be interested in the subject. Reading stuff is one thing but viewing a good documentary has a visual element you don't get from a book. I don't find any mention of Helmut Schreiber in Al...
by Richard Hatch
November 17th, 2023, 4:37 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23286

Re: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst

In your research, were you able to ascertain as to whether or not Dr. Volkmann was a member of the Nazi party? If so, do we know the extent of his involvement? As Dustin notes, it is a fair question and one that I was interested in myself. I was, naturally, hoping to learn that Dr. Volkmann had res...
by Richard Hatch
November 17th, 2023, 1:11 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23286

Re: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst

Back when I was researching Hofzinser in the early 1980s for my translation of Ottokar Fischer's second book about him ( J. N. Hofzinser Zauberkuenste , published by Modern Litho in 1985 as The Magic of J. N. Hofzinser ), Leonard Beck, who was then in charge of the McManus-Young and Houdini Collecti...
by Richard Hatch
October 26th, 2023, 7:22 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Kuda Bux
Replies: 12
Views: 3633

Re: Kuda Bux

Kuda Bux was managed for a time by Margo Feiden, early in her career. She is now best know for her long association with Al Hirschfeld. She died in 2022. Her NY Times obituary did not mention her association with Bux, but it is part of her Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Feiden
by Richard Hatch
October 15th, 2023, 5:16 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Günther Dammann talk in Hamburg on Oct 18
Replies: 0
Views: 2338

Günther Dammann talk in Hamburg on Oct 18

Wittus Witt has invited me to speak informally about my research on Günther Dammann, a young Jewish German scholar of magic, at his Zaubermuseum Bellachini in Hamburg this Wednesday while I am there doing research for a formal presentation on that topic at the upcoming Magifest in Columbus, Ohio in ...
by Richard Hatch
October 11th, 2023, 12:41 am
Forum: Collector's Marketplace
Topic: Nightmare Alley-First and second editions
Replies: 5
Views: 2453

Re: Nightmare Alley-First and second editions

I found this line in the description amusing: "The fact that the book is dedicated to theologian C. S. Lewis's wife makes things even more interesting." The book is dedicated to poet Joy Davidman who was married to Gresham at the time of publication. She only married C. S. Lewis ten years ...
by Richard Hatch
September 4th, 2023, 1:50 am
Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
Topic: Egg Bag
Replies: 55
Views: 21449

Re: Egg Bag

A couple more video performances (in Spanish) that I don't think have been mentioned in this thread: Juan Tamariz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4L8pZCyTU Pepe Carroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOEz_0wr09A Marko from Panama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGHMqp32g_A Tamariz and Carroll ...
by Richard Hatch
July 26th, 2023, 7:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Interesting vdeio on the topic of Erdnase by Michael Perovich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8TpY-tOlWQ
by Richard Hatch
July 6th, 2023, 1:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Oleg Stepanov earned great merits for researching the history of magic art in Russia. He saw the need to know history to create something new in Russia. His critical thinking did not only win him friends. RIP my friend! Dr. Solka, Thank you for letting us know about him. Do you have any information...
by Richard Hatch
July 5th, 2023, 9:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Sad news for the wider Erdnase and magic history community. According to an email from Dr. Solka, Oleg Anatolyevich Stepanov, the translator of Erdnase into Russian and the foremost Russian historian of magic, passed away in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 4, 2022 at age 62. I exchanged a few ema...
by Richard Hatch
June 29th, 2023, 5:49 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Steve Cuiffo‘s new show
Replies: 0
Views: 443

Steve Cuiffo‘s new show

by Richard Hatch
June 11th, 2023, 6:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Edward M. Vernelo (Savage), Sphinx and Vernelo & Company proprietor in 1902, was married to Onez ("M. Inez") Galehouse and had six siblings (Laura, Herbert, Cora, William, Ervin, and Myrtle). If anyone other than Smith engaged directly with Erdnase, it was Savage - who distributed tru...
by Richard Hatch
June 5th, 2023, 3:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Here's a better link to purchase this (only 9 copies of the hard copy version left!): https://yeoldemagicmag.com/ Whoops, I was looking at the volume 9, number 2 issue, as the current issue (volume 9, number 3) didn't yet have a purchase link. There are 30 issues left of the Erdnase cover story iss...
by Richard Hatch
June 5th, 2023, 2:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Here's a better link to purchase this (only 9 copies of the hard copy version left!):
https://yeoldemagicmag.com/
by Richard Hatch
June 5th, 2023, 2:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ERDNASE
Replies: 8153
Views: 12024525

Re: ERDNASE

Professor Richard Evans research on Erdnase has finally been published and is available here: https://yeoldemagicmag.com/downloads/vol-9-issue-3 Lots of interesting information to digest and consider. Steve Burton's early speculations are cited significantly. Publisher Marco Pusterla points out that...
by Richard Hatch
May 15th, 2023, 5:29 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Andy Nyman guest stars in A Small Light now streaming
Replies: 0
Views: 407

Andy Nyman guest stars in A Small Light now streaming

Andy Nyman has a guest starring role as Hermann van Pels, friend of Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank), who joins the Frank family with his family in hiding in the National Geographic series A Small Light, now streaming on Hulu. Andy's son Preston (also a magician and actor) also has a role in the se...
by Richard Hatch
April 10th, 2023, 4:42 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Gazzo Has Had A Second Stroke 3/21/2023
Replies: 3
Views: 986

Re: Gazzo Has Had A Second Stroke 3/21/2023

Penguin Magic is also fundraising for Gazzo, with all proceeds of a download of his standup show going to him:https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/18499
by Richard Hatch
March 16th, 2023, 12:00 am
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Daniel Ellsberg: Magician
Replies: 1
Views: 2047

Daniel Ellsberg: Magician

On page 15 of the May 2017 Genii , in "The Eye" section, mention is made of a Washington Post article by Margaret Sullivan that opens by describing a scarf trick (an appearing and vanishing knot in the reporter's scarf) performed by Daniel Ellsberg of "Pentagon Papers" fame. More...
by Richard Hatch
March 5th, 2023, 2:29 am
Forum: Book of The Month Club
Topic: David Copperfield History Book.
Replies: 32
Views: 10363

Re: David Copperfield History Book.

Amazon now has this at just $14 (list price of $35): https://www.amazon.com/David-Copperfields-History-Magic-Copperfield/dp/1982112913/ It is an excellent book, well researched and written and beautifully produced. The Barnes and Noble edition includes and extra chapter about Orson Welles, but is on...

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