FOR YEARS I RESISTED PERFORMING the ambitious card effect. It’s such a good trick that everybody was doing it but I found that the magical impact was such that I could just not leave it out of my close-up programme.
The routine I finished with is part classic, part Vernon, part Pat Page and for the closer [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by John
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IN COMMON WITH MANY MAGICIANS I have the highest regard for the magic and thinking of Patrick Page, one of the most inventive and practical performers in the business. And a hell of a nice guy to boot.
So I was delighted to hear that there is a new Pat Page book in preparation being compiled [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by John
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IT’S BEEN WHISPERED that legendary world illusionists Siegfried and Roy are the be the honoured guests at a charity show of magic, music and movies in London next September with a terrific line-up of artistes including many magicians from the U.S. being seen for the first time in Britain.
Full details are being released shortly but we will [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by John
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THERE ARE MANY GHOSTS IN MAGIC. People who are heard but not seen. People buried in the scenery of the magic landscape. People who make a tremendous contribution to the intellect of magic by their profound thinking and creativity often stimulated by their isolation from the magic tribe. People who rarely or never perform magic in [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by John
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MANY MAGICIANS HAVE CONTACTED ME to ask what is the ring on cord effect that is shown in the heading to this online magazine.
It is a routine I devised over ten years ago based on a basic idea that I purchased from Bob Little, the U.S. magic dealer. Quite simply the ring is quite openly placed on [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by John
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I LEARNED THIS WEEK of the passing of Anthony Crabbe in Bristol after I believe a long illness. I knew Anthony way back in the fifties when he lived with his father in Shirley near Croydon. He was tall, something in the city, very elegant with a cultured voice that delivered a sophisticated, raconteur type act, immaculately dressed in [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by John
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JUST BACK FROM HOLIDAY and loads of blogs to write you in the next few days. In the meantime:
Ford has just produced an all electric car that will travel from Blackpool to London for just 5p.
Unfortunately the connecting cable costs £15,000
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Posted on May 25th, 2008 by John
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I REFERRED YOU TO THE SITE where you could see pictures of the German street performer Johan Lorbeer who floats above the crowd attached by just his flat hand to a wall – Gee Whizz Magic. I find that this fails to show many pics but if you check out the name – Johan Lorbeer [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by John
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MY GOOD FRIEND LEWIS JONES sent me an intriguing email about a German street performer Johan Lorbeer who is famous throughout Germany for his “Still Life” performances. You know the kind of thing where a man simulates a porcelain statue standing absolutely still for hours on the sidewalk and occasionally frightening a passer by by [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by John
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NOT ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE for the past few days as have been away in France with the Vaudeville Golfing Society playing at Le Touquet and Hardelot. The VGS is a society made up of show business folk – comedians, musicians, composers, managers, technicians, agents and yes magician’s who meet socially and play golf at three affiliated golf clubs [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by John
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