I’VE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEGED  that there is magic you do for your friends and your ego and there is magic you do for the paying public. Demonstrators versus entertainers.

Nowhere was this philosophy more confirmed this week when I read that Nick Einhorn, one of our busiest, skilled and most  successful performers did a high profile gig for a bank in the South of France – and scored with the 20th century bra trick! When I  know some of the brilliant things that he does that  I am sure he presented for his audience, I am heartened when I hear that he also included what many dismiss as old time music hall magic, below the interest of many of our magic elite.

This was also confirmed when I saw an interview given to the media by Paul Daniels, unquestionably one of our most successful magicians of the last century, when asked to do a trick to promote his forthcoming variety tour - did the long card!

These tricks may be passe to many but to magicians who know the public and are paid to entertain them – they are gold dust.

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