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Showing posts with label Blackstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackstone. Show all posts
Monday, March 2, 2020

Chase-ing Houdini's Radio

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The photo above is Houdini's Radio Illusion. An unusual production effect that was used in his 3-In-1 Show/The Final Houdini Tour....
Sunday, January 1, 2017

The Other Blackstone Book Review

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Back in 1999 Daniel Waldron wrote a book called Blackstone A Magician's Life . It was a fantastic biography of one of the true greats...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Spirit Handkerchief and It's History

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There is a wonderful effect in magic that has found it's way into the acts of many performers called The Dancing Handkerchief. Probab...
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Monday, June 8, 2015

The Flags of All Nations

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The Magic Detective is up to his old tricks, actually NEW old tricks. Over these past several months you may have noticed my absence from ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Blackstone's Elusive Moth Strikes Again!

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This past weekend was The 2014 Yankee Gathering in New England. I missed it unfortunately. But thankfully two of my friends who did attend d...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Gus Roterberg and Houdini

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Houdini, Mrs. and Mr August Roterberg Here is a name you hear every now and then in magic history circles, Roterberg. For those who coll...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Adelaide Herrmann and the 1926 Fire

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Warehouse on 46St NYC This is a story I had read about in different books over the years, but always in snippets. I never quite knew the...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Game Changing Illusion

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The one magician who changed the face of illusion magic more than anyone in the 20th Century was P.T. Selbit. Born Percy Thomas Tibbles on N...
Friday, July 22, 2011

The Elusive Moth BOOK

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I was quite excited when the mailman delivered a package to me yesterday containing a brand new book. The title, Memoirs of an Elusive Moth...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Vanishing Bird Cage - History

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La Cage Volente, La Cage Eclipse, The Flying Cage or as we know it today, The Vanishing Birdcage was the invention of one man Joseph Buat...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

The Magic Detectives

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Before I became the Magic Detective (a name given to me by Mark Daniel), there were a number of others. One of the first was Harry Blacksto...
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Mystery of the Houdini Hole

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Lincoln Square Theatre Decatur IL Today There is a hole cut in the stage of the Lincoln Square Theatre in Decatur Il that is referred to...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Blackstone In D.C.

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Here's a slight change of pace from all the Houdini stuff. Did you know that Harry Blackstone Sr. is in the Smithsonian Museum? Back in...