Bill Tarr - 101 Easy-to-Do Magic Tricks
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Like a great many magicians, Bill Tarr, author of Now You See It, Now You Dont: Lessons in Sleight of Hand and The Second Now You See It, Now You Dont: More Lessons in Sleight of Hand, has been interested in magic from a very early age. He did his first tricks at the age of nine, spent the greater part of his youth with a deck of cards in his hands, and eventually did a manipulative actcards, billiard balls and cigarettesprofessionally... a brief interlude he most thoroughly enjoyed. After a hitch in the Navy he entered the arts, and for many years has been a dedicated full-time sculptor.
He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, a Municipal Art Society Award winner, and creator of several of Americas largest sculptures, including the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, the huge Morningside Heights piece and some twelve other works in New York City alone.
Husband of prominent cookbook author Yvonne Young Tarr, and father of two sons, Jonathon and Nicolas, he works and lives in East Hampton, New York.
Part of magics great appeal is its rich tradition and the great men that have helped to make it.
Magicians are almost invariably self-made men. No author writes their lines, no director tells them what to do, no conductor or choreographer guides them through their paces. For the most part, they are highly creative individuals. They write their own material, they invent their own effects, they put together their own acts. Many of them even build their own apparatus.
Most of them have led rich, exciting, adventure-filled lives. Following are a few brief words about some of the more interesting magicians that haveand dograce stages around the world.
Houdin is considered to be the father of modern conjuring. He was a watchmaker, mechanic, inventor, maker of automatons, an early experimenter with electricity, and the author of several fine books on magic, including his famous memoirs. Houdin became fascinated by magic in his teens after seeing a street conjurer. He traveled with an itinerant magician named Torrini, from whom he learned many basics, and was the first magician to work in a relatively modern mannerthat is, in conventional clothes on a relatively bare stage.
Houdin performed before many of the crowned heads of Europe and was greatly renowned and widely imitated. He was one of the first to do a second-sight act in which, by means of a secret code, he conveyed descriptions of objects held by members of the audience to his blindfolded son onstage.
Sent to Algeria by his government to quell a native uprising, he presented magic so impressive the local chiefs gave up their cause as hopeless in view of the superior magic of the French. Youll enjoy reading his memoirs.
Son of an amateur magician-physician, Carl grew up surrounded by magic. Against his parents wishes he became a conjurer, did his first big-time performance in London in 1848, and quickly became the toast of Europe. He traveled extensively, performed before the crowned heads of Europe, made a fortune and toured North and South America with equal success.
Alexander was Carls younger brother, his junior by twenty-seven years. When he was ten, he joined Carl and became an adept sleight-of-hand artist. At fifteen he appeared before the queen of Spain. He toured the United States with Carl, and together they met with great success. They separated amicably while in the United States, Carl returning to Europe and Alexander, now known as Herrmann the Great and considered the worlds top sleight-of-hand man, staying on in America, where he was a great success.
Herrmann did a spectacular black art illusion in which white-clad figures floated mysteriously about a darkened stage, and a great vanishing-lady act that stunned audiences all over America. He married Adelaide in the early seventies. She toured with him and upon his death in 1896 took over the show. In concert with Alexanders nephew Leon, she toured successfully for about a quarter of a century thereafter.
Harry Kellar ran away from home at the age of twelve, answered an ad placed by an English magician, the Fakir of Ava, and became his assistant. He left the Fakir at eighteen, an accomplished magician and ready to start out on his own. He met with little success, so he joined the famous Davenport brothers as an offstage assistant, mastered their techniques and eventually teamed up with fellow conjurer Professor Fay. After an unsuccessful tour with Professor Fay, Kellar did the vanishing bird cage to great acclaim in Cuba, enjoyed a successful tour through South America, and set sail for Europe with tons of newly acquired apparatus. Shipwrecked near the coast of France, he lost all his equipment and personal belongings. He started fresh, built his reputation and enjoyed several highly successful world tours. He was involved in an intense rivalry with Alexander Herrmann in North America. Upon Herrmanns death, he became the unquestioned leader of American conjurers until 1908, when he retired and turned his show over to Howard Thurston.
At age seven Thurston saw Herrmann the Great perform, and from that moment on he knew what he wanted to be. Despite a varied career during his youthhe was a newsboy, race-track tout, carnival hanger-on and medical missionary studenthe maintained his interest in conjuring and developed into an expert card man.
He made his debut as a six-dollar-a-week circus magician, fooled Leon Herrmann, Alexanders successor-nephew, with his famous rising card trick. Billing himself as the man who fooled the Great Herrmann, he worked his way up through a succession of carnival and dime museums, and eventually became a hit in vaudeville with his specialty, card magic. Dissatisfied, he canceled his lucrative bookings, went to London and built a full evening show that was an instant hit. After an artistically triumphant, financially dismal world tour he joined Kellar, toured with him for a year, and then became his successor. At one point Thurston had over thirty assistants and over thirty tons of apparatus in what was surely the largest, most lavish and spectacular show of its kind ever. He died at the age of sixty-six, the most famous illusionist of them all.
An inventor and builder of illusions and an assistant to magicians, including Harry Kellar, he became Alexander Herrmanns stage manager and did Herrmanns act when the master was indisposed. After several attempts to perform on his own with little success, he made up as a Chinese, patterned his act after the then famous Ching Ling Foo, and became an instant success. He performed productions of tubs of water with ducks swimming about and other feats of an Oriental nature. When challenged by the former, he managed to convince the world that he, not Ching Ling Foo, was the genuine Chinese. One night his feature trick, in which expert marksmen fired bullets that he caught on a china plate, failed, and Chung Ling Soo fell dead onstage, a victim of the dangerous bullet-catching trick.
Born Ehrich Weiss, of a desperately poor immigrant family, he learned his first magic trick at fourteen, was professional at seventeen, and got married at nineteen. His wife Bess joined the act, and after six years of abject failure he made a moderate success with handcuff escapes. He went to London and escaped from Scotland Yards strongest handcuffs. The resulting publicity stimulated bookings, and Houdini was on his way. He made ever more daring escapes. He was lashed to a loaded cannon with a twenty-minute fuse and escaped in thirteen. Tied to a track fifteen minutes before a train was due, he barely escaped as the train screamed by. He escaped from filled milk cans, packing crates, ropes, chains and every conceivable constraint, and smashed box office records doing it.
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