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'''Zera Semon''' ( | '''Zera Semon''' (1847-1900) was a prominent American magician and ventriloquist who toured the east coast of the United States and Canada.<ref>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115767688</ref> | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Making his home in Richmond, Va, as was perhaps the leading conjurer at the time in the States making gifts a feature of his show. His program consisted of the usual effective tricks that are found in the repertoire of the better class of magicians and included a full stage set of life-size marionettes. Accompanied by his wife, they would perform a spiritualistic canopy act, similar to [[Robert Heller]].<ref>Leaves from conjurers' scrap books, or, Modern magicians and their works by H. J. (1891)</ref><ref> Mahatma Vol. 4 No. 11,July 1900</ref> | Making his home in Richmond, Va, as was perhaps the leading conjurer at the time in the States making gifts a feature of his show. His program consisted of the usual effective tricks that are found in the repertoire of the better class of magicians and included a full stage set of life-size marionettes. Accompanied by his wife Irene (1850 - 1906)<ref>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115768180</ref>, they would perform a spiritualistic canopy act, similar to [[Robert Heller]].<ref>Leaves from conjurers' scrap books, or, Modern magicians and their works by H. J. (1891)</ref><ref> Mahatma Vol. 4 No. 11,July 1900</ref> | ||
Zera Semon's prizes would range from hams, lamps, and butter knives, to a fifty-six items set of French chinaware and a three piece living-room suite.<ref> The Illustrated History of Magic by Milbourne Christopher (1973)</ref> | Zera Semon's prizes would range from hams, lamps, and butter knives, to a fifty-six items set of French chinaware and a three piece living-room suite.<ref> The Illustrated History of Magic by Milbourne Christopher (1973)</ref> | ||
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| Born | Zera Babel Semon 1847 Richmond, Virginia |
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| Died | April 9, 1901 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Resting place | Mikveh Israel Cemetery #3, Philadelphia |
Zera Semon (1847-1900) was a prominent American magician and ventriloquist who toured the east coast of the United States and Canada.[1]
Biography
Making his home in Richmond, Va, as was perhaps the leading conjurer at the time in the States making gifts a feature of his show. His program consisted of the usual effective tricks that are found in the repertoire of the better class of magicians and included a full stage set of life-size marionettes. Accompanied by his wife Irene (1850 - 1906)[2], they would perform a spiritualistic canopy act, similar to Robert Heller.[3][4]
Zera Semon's prizes would range from hams, lamps, and butter knives, to a fifty-six items set of French chinaware and a three piece living-room suite.[5]
He always won the sympathy of the audience because of his being a cripple—one leg being shorter than the other.
Kit Clarke reported in MUM that when he last heard of Zera he was located in Halifax, Canada engaged in the fish industry.[6]
After his death, his son Lawrence (sometimes confused as the son of Baron Seeman) was a cartoonist of the Evening Telegram, performed as a comedian and later as a magician. Also known as Larry, he exposed some magic tricks in local papers while employed at a cigar store in Philadelphia in 1909.[7]
References
- ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115767688
- ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115768180
- ↑ Leaves from conjurers' scrap books, or, Modern magicians and their works by H. J. (1891)
- ↑ Mahatma Vol. 4 No. 11,July 1900
- ↑ The Illustrated History of Magic by Milbourne Christopher (1973)
- ↑ MUM, Jan 1918
- ↑ Sphinx,January 15, 1910