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At a time when the Victorians prided themselveson science and rationality, the two quiet young men from Buffalo, New York began a confusing debate about just how honest a magician needed to be or could afford to be.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
His specialty was convincing each person that they had witnessed a near catastrophe.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Walter didn’t want to hurt his hands; he was protecting them. He wanted to be a magician.
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
older brother, Alfred, who had also worked as a magician, continued Stodare's show and performed several variations on the Sphinx illusion,and other performers soon copied the effect. But the famous Egyptian head was never more successful than under the supervision of this dashing and dramatic originator.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
As a showman, he saw these exposures as fuel to the fire, a bucket of kerosene rather than a bucket of water.