by Sheridan | Jan 17, 2013 | Articles By Magicians
Do I know FRAGMENTS? Course I do. Sure I’m a reg’lar fellah. But I’m not “English” No, nor Scandinavian either. I’m just an honest-to-goodness American, born way up in Appleton, Wisconsin of rich but honest parents. “Perhaps it is because I’ve worked here for such a...
by Sheridan | Oct 13, 2011 | Articles By Magicians
Houdini- The Mystery-Man By David Gow Editor of “Light” “Some people say, Mr Houdini,” I remarked, “that some of your feats are so impossible of explanation along ordinary lines that you are really a medium and are assisted by spirits.” The great magician, with whom I...
by Sheridan | Oct 11, 2011 | Articles By Magicians
House Of Mysteries Jubilee Of London’s Oldest Entertainment Conjuring Tricks Which Puzzled The World. News of the World Special – April 1st 1923 Fifty years ago today two young men from Cheltenham, John Nevil Maskelyne and George Cooke, presented for the first...
by Sheridan | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles By Magicians
This article come from volume two of the magicians scrapbook, describing the life and career of Indian magician Linga Singh, reproduced on request of his Grandson who is researching his life. Exact date and publication is unknown, and as always content and view...
by Sheridan | Sep 7, 2011 | Articles By Magicians
My Grandfather was a young man when, in their triumphal progress through the provinces, the Davenports, the famous “mediums,” visited the Town Hall, Cheltenham. Like everyone else, he went to see the rope-tying phenomena, and – unlike most – he came away with a...
