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Showing posts with label Compars Herrmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compars Herrmann. Show all posts
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Magic Christian and His Crusade

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I first heard the name Magic Christian many years ago when he appeared on the cover of Genii Magazine, November 1980. I was just a kid but...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Grave of Compars Herrmann

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photo courtesy Heinz König I received the quite the surprise in my email today from Heinz König who found and photographed the grave of ...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

The Queen of Magic - Book Review

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A while ago I mentioned that Margaret Steele had published the recently discovered memoirs of Adelaide Herrmann. But at the time I had n...
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Friday, September 2, 2011

Houdini & The Herrmann Connection

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Houdini and Compars Herrmann I had heard speculation that Houdini and the Herrmann Family (Compars and Alexander) were related but I alwa...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The MAGIC used by Civil War Magicians

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After I completed my series on Magicians of the Civil War era , I noticed that many of them did the same tricks. I wanted to give you some h...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Civil War Era Magicians Part 5

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John Wyman Jr. Our next magician who conjured in America during the Civil War seems as though he deserves a bigger place in the annals o...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Civil War Era Magicians Part 3

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In part 1 of this series, I told you about John Henry Anderson, The Great Wizard of the North who was actually Scottish. He was one of the e...