Caryl Fleming

Caryl Fleming
Cover of Genii (1938)
Born	Caryl Stacy Fleming October 13, 1894 Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Died	September 02, 1940 (age 45) Los Angeles
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Caryl "Carl" Fleming (1894-1940) was known for making special chemicals, like It's a Pip liquid which he created with Judge Charles W. Fricke in 1937.

Biography

In 1917, he was employed by Film Craft Corporation in New York City as a motion picture director. Fleming worked as an actor, director, writer and amateur magician in New York and later in Los Angeles.

In 1938, he helped charter the International Brotherhood of Magicians "Hollywood Ring 21" which was later changed to the "Caryl Fleming Ring". He was also a president of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians and started the International Alliance of Magicians.

He was known for making special chemicals, like It's a Pip liquid which he created with Charles W. Fricke (Judge) in 1937.

Fleming wrote a series of twelve articles in Genii entitled So Your Club Is Going to Give a Show from September 1936 to August 1937.

He died in Los Angeles while performing a card trick, just one month before his 50th birthday.

After his death a trophy was established for the IBM national convention of originality called the Fleming Perpetual award and held for 1 year. The wooden and lead trophy is currently in the IBM offices and in need of repair.