Linking Ring Magazine

Linking Ring Magazine
Vol 1 No. 4
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	January, 1923

The Linking Ring is the name of the official magazine for the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Vol. 21, No. 1, March 1941

Issue 1 Number 1 was published in January 1923. It comprised only four pages. It contained an editorial by Ernest Schieldge, a biography of Len Vintus written by Gene Gordon and a listing of all 20 members.

Issues 11 & 12 from volume 41 don't exist, as explained by Alvin Plough, page 57 of issue 10, december 1941: The Board of Trustees voted to change the time of beginning and ending volumes of The Linking Ring.

Issues 5 & 6 from volume 49, 1969 are only one issue.

Editors

• Ernest Schieldge & Gene Gordon 1923 - 1926
• Len Vintus 1926 - 1927
• W.W. Durbin 1927 - 1937
• Dr. Kenneth Sheelor 1937
• John H. Davison 1937 - 1938
• T. J. Crawford 1938 - 1941
• Myron Scott 1941 - 1942
• John Braun 1942 - 1948
• Alvin Plough 1948 - 1965
• John Braun 1965 - 07/1967
• Howard Barnman 08/1967 - 1993
• Phil Willmarth 1993 - ????
• Samuel Patrick Smith

Effects by performer

• Phil Goldstein in The Linking Ring
• Marlo in The Linking Ring

Persons who've appeared on the cover

No covers until Volume 3, no. 1, May 1925.

• Len Vintus (May 1925)
• Dr. A.M. Wilson (June 1925)
• Hugh Mackay (July 1925)
• W.W. Durbin (August 1925)
• William C. Talboys (October 1925)
• Frederick Eugene Powell (December 1925)
• Arthur D. Gans (March 1926)
• Ernest K. Schieldge (Avril 1926)
• McDonald Birch (May 1926)
• Gene Gordon (June 1926)
• Sid Johnson (Sid Lorraine)(July 1926)
• George Schulte (August 1926)
• Allan Lambie (September 1926)
• Richard Davis (October 1926)
• Murray A. Sumner (November 1926)
• Tom Bowyer (January 1927)
• Edward Bagshawe (February 1927)
• Werner Dornfield (March 1927)
• Leslie Guest (April 1927)
• Henry Llewellyn (May 1927)
• Augustus Hartz (June 1927)
• Clinton Burgess (July 1927)
• Al Saal (August 1927)
• William J. Hilliar (September 1927)
• Chevalier Ernest Thorn (October 1927)
• Adelaide Herrmann (November 1927)
• James H. Stevenson (January 1928)
• Agosta Meynier (February 1928)
• Otto Waldmann (March 1928)
• Walter Cerretta Jeans (April 1928)
• Percy James (May 1928)
• A.L. Salvail (June 1928)
• Eddie Joseph (July 1928)
• E.J. Moore (August 1928)
• Joao Peixoto (September 1928)
• Ernie Evraire (October 1928)
• Frank H. Keller (November 1928)
• Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin(January 1929)
• Compars Herrmann (February 1929)
• Harry Kellar (March 1929)
• Cagliostro (April 1929)
• Ching Ling Foo (May 1929)
• Dr. James William Elliott (June 1929)
• Buatier de Kolta (July 1929)
• John Henry Anderson (August 1929)
• Alexander Herrmann (September 1929)
• Felicien Trewey (October 1929)
• Ludwig Leopold Doebler (November 1929)

• Johnny Ace Palmer (April 1998)

References

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• The Linking Ring. April 1998.