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Cliff Green

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Cliff Green
BornAugust 4, 1894
Richmond, Virginia
DiedMay 29, 1969 (age 74)
CategoriesBooks by Cliff Green
Cliff Green (1894-1969) was a professional magician who worked in vaudeville in the early 1900s. He became friends with fellow Canadian Dai Vernon.

His folks moved to Canada when he was very young and he received his early education in Montreal and Ottawa. Green became interested in magic when at the age of twelve he saw his first magician, Otto Regan.[1]

Cliff was known for his original and technically difficult card magic. He created the Interlocked Production of Cards for his vaudeville act in the 1910s and 20s. His original method is explained in his book, Professional Card Magic. The method published in Expert Card Technique under Cliff Green's name is actually the inferior method created by Tenkai, who saw Green perform his original version at a vaudeville date and attempted to copy it.

He was a past president of the Society of American Magicians Parent Assembly.

Richard Kaufman purchased the copyright to his book Professional Card Magic and is working on a new and more clearly written version, which was originally edited by Howie Schwarzman.

Books

References

  1. Magician of the Monthy by Leslie P. Guest, MUM, August 1961