The Genii Forum

Brad Jeffers

performer wrote: Anyway it is far better for an individual female performer to be few and far between. Less competition for them that way

Are you implying that female magicians are not competing with male magicians for work, but rather competing with each other for the "token woman" position on the bill?

Brad Jeffers

Why would booking more women performers translate into having more women attendees?

Brad Jeffers

Why does a service provided by a printing company suggest more than a service provided by a printing company? People are indicating that merely having been a customer of a printing firm doesn’t mean that customer was Erdnase. All of the above comments with regard to the relationship of Benedict wit...

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I still don't think that his business relationship with the McKinney makes him more likely than someone without one. How can someone who had no business relationship with the book's printer be Erdnase? The fact that Benedict has been proven to have had a business relationship with McKinney is the s...

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Al Schneider wrote:I am building a rising card system I hope to sell.

Al, are you still working on this?

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performer wrote: I have done the move for decades and it deceives laymen every time. I have never been caught a single solitary time.

MagicbyAlfred wrote:Yes, magicians often do fool themselves about how deceptive their work is to laypeople.

Brad Jeffers

He would have been seen almost daily with a "dirty" nose by many German speaking people. But wouldn't they then use a nickname like Schumtzige Nase (dirty nose), or Shmutznase (dirt nose), or even Tintinnase (ink nose)? All that is necessary is to understand that "earth" is same...

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I thought Orson Bean would make the "In Memoriam" segment on last night's Oscar's, but apparently his death was too recent for inclusion.
Robert Conrad, who died Saturday, was also left out.

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This thread (which I'd hoped would generate responses and stimulating discussion from magicians talking about their favorite magic books and playing cards) only has about 200 fewer views and 2 fewer replies than one about somebody getting run over by a car. I am going to need to seriously re-evalua...

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Joe Lyons wrote:He was also a lyricist, and Karr mentions including music on a cd.

The CD is only included with the $350 deluxe edition, so if you are interested in hearing the music of Erdnase, you will have to act quickly. There are only 89 deluxe editions left.

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... we really believed that selling 1000 copies of a $300 dollar book would take some time, and we felt there was a very real possibility that he'd go to a wholesaler with his "remainder" copies after a few months of sales. There's a finite number of people who will purchase this book at ...

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If you are able to access TCM on demand, they have available the Cy Endfield directed movie Try and Get Me . This week was the first time that this film has ever been aired on TCM. Eddie Muller gives a great deal of information about Endfield in his introduction to the movie and in his post movie cl...

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It looks like there are already 32 pre-orders for the $350 "deluxe" edition of the Todd Karr book, which brings to mind a comment I made last year in regards to this failed Kickstarter campaign ... There are people who collect any and all editions of Erdnase. For these people there is a ne...

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I was wondering if anyone here might know whose hands are shown in THIS PHOTOGRAPH ?

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Richard Kaufman wrote:If you are interested in this book, do NOT hesitate because they will be sold out shortly.

Books like this are like a freeroll to me.
I purchase it, read it, study the parts that are of particular interest to me, and when done, if I wish, I can usually sell it for more than I paid for it.

Brad Jeffers

Leo Garet wrote:I did have "Majoke" at one time, but I can't recall anything at all about it. Not even the cover.

This will refresh your memory.

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From the website ... If you wish to have a book inscribed, just enter "inscription" with your first, or first and last name, and I'll take care of the rest. Or, enter a complete inscription in the box and I will copy the inscription verbatim. Hmmm, verbatim. Let me see ... "To my best...

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The first comment I would make is about the back-and-forth wrist jerking movement when you do the D'Amico Double Lift. I've seen other people do the lift without that movement (no wrist movement at all) He's not doing the D'Amico Double Lift. He's doing the D'Amico Second Deal, so wrist movement is...

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I have a complete set of Scotty York color changing knives that I would be willing to sell. When I say complete, I mean the regular four knife set and the three knife "colorfusing set". Seven different knives in all. $225 These knives are in perfect condition. Never used. I purchased them ...

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David Ben's biography of Vernon describes an arrest of Vernon with two "small-time gamblers" in Chicago ... Since both involve the police identifying Vernon as a pickpocket based on his having scissors for cutting silhouettes, they are probably the same arrest, with different details. I a...

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BossTweed wrote: Further, an alternate story has been published in another place and I continue to feel that laying out the actual facts is the best policy.

Where was this alternate story published?

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$69 is a bargin, when compared to THIS.

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Fred Keating on "The Rudy Vallee Show" aka "The Royal Gelatin Hour" - April 21, 1938

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I think where the trouble lies is when a magician fools himself/herself in believing that the audience sees the sincerity in their act by such moves when those actions/gestures are put on rather than being natural. What do you think of the flourish used in Vernon's Twisting the Aces? You know, the ...

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sleight-free material A much better word for what we are referring to when we say "self-working magic". There is virtually no trick that works itself without a human hand touching the prop or the human voice guiding the procedure. Exactly! It is therefore impossible to perform a self-work...

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Bill Mullins wrote:The construction job he had when he broke his arms would have been a real job.

True - but he only worked at that job for two weeks.

Perhaps he received Social Security benefits via THIS ROUTE.

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...it was from social security payments which had just accumulated because he had lived so long. Was Vernon eligible to receive Social Security benefits? After all, he never had a "real job", and quite possibly may have never filed an income tax form in his life. Doesn't seem like the kin...

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Here's something I wrote in 2003 concerning Vernon's lecture tours ... One of the ways that Vernon accumulated his "wealth", that has not yet been mentioned, was by giving lectures. By his own account, he gave "hundreds and hundreds" of them. The first lecture he ever gave was ar...

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Being able to use double-back cards does not imply that Vernon used it in that precise moment. He could use an impromptu version of it as well. In reference to the trick that fooled Houdini, Vernon wrote this ... "And, in case your interested, in doing the Ambitious Card for Houdini I simply u...

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I was playing with the trick recently and found that I could pretty much duplicate the same trick using 2 matching cards, one a 'dupe', and just not letting on that I had an extra card Brilliant! And just think; with your method; you can hand them the deck and they can perform the trick on themselv...

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kevinm wrote: "... as a comeback to some layman who insists on showing you a standard version." That is my primary motivation to locate and re-visit this effect.

That strikes me as an awfully bad reason for wanting to learn a magic trick.

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It's interesting that in the letter of provenance accompanying the wand, Vernon states that the wand came from Gamages ... "Dear Larry, This wand is one that was sold by Gamages in London many years ago. I would love to have you use it. I used it for several years when performing the classic Cu...

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Thanks Bill, for posting the information about Marion Stephanie.
It is now apparent that it is she, and not Suzy Wandas, who appears in the film.

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Here's a working link . Kobe van Herwegen recently posted on Facebook some information that convinces me that the manipulator woman was Marion Stephanie. So who is the mystery woman?! Bill, could you cut and paste the information that now leads you to believe that the woman is Marion Stephanie. I am...

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I don't remember the name of the trick, but if you want one of the coins, check here.

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"Shin Lim settles in for long-term Las Vegas Strip residency"
Is a six month contract now considered to be a long-term residency?

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One issue is that all magic presented via a screen is media magic. I appreciate the term media magic, but would not apply it to all magic presented via a screen. I would not for example, refer to the videos of Cardini or Channing Pollock as media magic. I would instead use a term like filmed magic,...

Brad Jeffers

There are people who collect any and all editions of Erdnase. For these people there is a need to own at least one copy of every edition ever printed, or else their collection will be incomplete. How many of this type collector are there? I don't know. Perhaps a hundred. Therefore, I feel that if yo...

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Roy M. McIlwee wrote: They seem to be out of stock everywhere.

You can get them on Ebay.

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Although Vernon once placed the event in 1919, he also once placed it in 1922. He also once placed it in 1917 (the Revelations tapes volume 9). So, in my mind, as Vernon was not one to keep a lot of material on hand, this photograph - one he may have kept for over forty years before moving West, mu...

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