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* Magic and Mind Reading Tricks You Can Do (1920)
* Magic and Mind Reading Tricks You Can Do (1920)
* La Vellma's Vaudeville Budget (1921)
* La Vellma's Vaudeville Budget (1921)
* The Art of Thought Reading (1956)
Dates, please !
* The Dunninger Mystic Series
* The Dunninger Mystic Series
* The Art of Thought Reading (1956)
* Dunninger Explains
* Dunninger Explains
* How to Become a Ventriloquist (Simplified), with The Great Dunninger
* How to Become a Ventriloquist (Simplified), with The Great Dunninger

Revision as of 02:26, 20 May 2011

David J. Lustig (September 4, 1893- September 30, 1977) vaudeville magic act theater manager, show producer and advisor. Lustig launched his vaudeville career in 1910 at the age of 17, as a magician using the stage name of La Vellma. He was a technical adviser to Dunninger, devising devised many of the "tests" that Dunninger used on radio and TV shows.

David Lustig
BornSeptember 04, 1893
DiedSeptember 30, 1977 (age 84)
CategoriesBooks by David Lustig

Later in his life he worked as a publicity specialist for Columbia Pictures, setting up tours and interviews for their movie stars.

He also wrote a number of books under the name La Vellma.

Elected by the S.A.M. National Council to The Hall of Fame.

Books

  • Vaudeville Mind Reading (1920)
  • Vaudeville Ventriloquism (1920)
  • Vaudeville Magic (1920)
  • Magic and Mind Reading Tricks You Can Do (1920)
  • La Vellma's Vaudeville Budget (1921)
  • The Art of Thought Reading (1956)


Dates, please !

  • The Dunninger Mystic Series
  • Dunninger Explains
  • How to Become a Ventriloquist (Simplified), with The Great Dunninger
  • Dunninger's Book of Magic Tricks.
  • Dunninger's Master Methods of Hypnotism

References

David Lustig, Man of the Theatre by Barry H. Wiley in Linking Ring - August 1997