I KNEW JACK AVIS FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. Ten years after I first met him I married his sister and whilst we didn’t discuss much magic whilst I was in business, for the first ten years of my retirement and my return to magic we met every week, sometimes more, had holidays together and talked much [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by John
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BOBBY BERNARD AND I have been friends for over sixty years. As teenagers we were in concert party together – he did vent dressed as a schoolmaster with a naughty boy pupil and I did magic. I remember it well.
“What’s your name?”
“Isaiah sir”
“Why do they call you Isaiah?”
“Cos one eyes ‘igher than the other!”
Later we were both members [...]
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by John
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I’m not a star.
I’m no Alex Elmsley, Michael Ammar, Guy Hollingsworth or magic practitioner of that ilk. But I am a working magician. Have performed magic all over the world from Osaka to Golders Green and have come up with a few ideas and written a few things about magic from time to time.
I’m middle [...]
Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by John
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