Sunday, April 26, 2020

1958 Greatest Magicians

 Milbourne Christopher, shown here levitating a beautiful assistant with the greatest of ease, is acclaimed by magicians themselves to be the foremost historian of magic.  His immense reference library covers 5000 years of hocus-pocus, and his Manhattan apartment is the largest museum of magic in existence.  In addition, Chrisopher is one of the greatest of contemporary wizards and is past president of the Society of American Magicians.


 Suspicious London bobby was the first spectator to see David Devant's startling illusion, "The Mascot Moth"



 Bearded DeKolta made his wife disappear in view of audience.  Newspapers proved no trap doors were used.



"Onaip" was a staggering illusion in which a piano and pianist revolved in midair during musical number


Horace Goldin was a master at sawing an assistant in half, one of the most famous and spectacular of all stage illusions  All other magicians placed the girl in a closed box, but Goldin simply had her lie on a plank throughout his surgical sorcery.


This appeared in the December 1958 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine

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