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	| ''Feminine Side'' ([[Out of This World]])		| ''Feminine Side'' ([[Out of This World]])
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	| ''Butch, Ringo, and the Sheep'' ([[Modern Coin Magic|Thieves and Sheep]])		| ''Butch, Ringo, and the Sheep'' ([[Modern Coin Magic|Thieves and Sheep]])
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	| ''Hornswoggled Again!'' ([[Stars of Magic|Bamboozle]])		| ''Hornswoggled Again!'' ([[Stars of Magic|Bamboozle]])
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	| ''Owed to Poker Dan''		| ''Owed to Poker Dan''
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	| ''Dixie!'' ([[Cups and Balls]])		| ''Dixie!'' ([[Cups and Balls]])
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	| ''The Cursed Ring'' ([[Stars of Magic|Ring off Wand]])		| ''The Cursed Ring'' ([[Stars of Magic|Ring off Wand]])
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	| ''Fair and Sloppy'' ([[Slop Shuffle]])		| ''Fair and Sloppy'' ([[Slop Shuffle]])
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	| ''Left-Handed Hank''		| ''Left-Handed Hank''
	| [[Charlie Miller]]		| [[Charlie Miller]]
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	| ''Mechanical Deck'' ([[Haunted Deck|The Pack That Cuts Itself]])		| ''Mechanical Deck'' ([[Haunted Deck|The Pack That Cuts Itself]])
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	| ''Bar Bill Stunt'' ([[Bill Switch]])		| ''Bar Bill Stunt'' ([[Bill Switch]])
	| [[Paul Chosse]]		| [[Paul Chosse]]
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	| ''Four Squares and a Knot'' ([[Sympathetic Silks]])		| ''Four Squares and a Knot'' ([[Sympathetic Silks]])
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	| ''All-Outs [[Think of a Card|Think-of-a-Card]]''		| ''All-Outs [[Think of a Card|Think-of-a-Card]]''
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Ron Bauer
Born	Ronald Raymond Bauer 1938 Portland, Oregon
Categories	Books by Ron Bauer

Ron Bauer (b. 1938) is a professional writer in the computer and video industries, and a semi-professional magician. He's the author of a series of 24 "annotated performance scripts" for magicians, called the Ron Bauer Private Studies Series. He's also well-known for his T.T.T. (Two-card Turnover Technique)^[1] and R.A.P. (Riffle Action Palm).^[2] He maintained longtime friendships with Milt Kort, Jack McMillen, Don Alan, Ed Marlo, Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, "Senator" Clarke Crandall, Bruce Cervon, and many others.

Biography

After being intrigued by a sign in the window, Ron Bauer walked through the door of his first magic shop at age 11, and he was hooked. He trained in Portland, Oregon, under Ted and Marie Hall, R. Vernon Cook, and Stan Payne of Star Magic. He voraciously devoured every magic book he could get his hands on, and in 1952, he was the first one in town to get a copy of the brand-new Modern Coin Magic by Bobo.

Shortly thereafter, Bauer's family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. He met and began learning from Jack Dean and Charles Aste, Jr. He also started training in acting, and got involved in local radio, television, and live theater. In fact, Bauer was the first magician to appear on the first two television stations in Memphis.

In 1959, Bauer married and moved to Detroit, where he became the first full-time professional close-up magician working in the area. Several years later, he started his training in marketing at Maxon Advertising. In 1968, he founded Mr. Trix Enterprises, a children's entertainment company based in the prestigious Detroit-suburb Birmingham.^[3] Employing magicians, clowns, puppeteers, and party planners, Mr. Trix's popularity grew and it became the largest and most successful children's entertainment company in the Midwest. Children couldn't get enough of the MagicFun Man, Elmo D. Clown, Professor B'loon (sometimes played by Milt Kort), Kelly the Klorophyll Klown, and of course, the group's rabbit-in-a-hat mascot, Mr. Trix. Their shows included the "Mr. Trix MagicFun Time" show, the "Elmo D. Clown Show," "The Instant Puppet Show," and the "B'loon Circus." During this time Bauer also produced several Mr. Trix television projects.

After almost a decade running Mr. Trix, Bauer turned his attention to television production. He was writer and producer for over 100 episodes of the Bozo the Clown show at WJBK-TV in the late seventies.^[4] Then, with an eye on the emerging video industry, he wrote, produced, and marketed the first training course in non-broadcast video production. After seeing his video production course, Sony contracted Bauer in the early eighties for a new project, so he headed to California.^[5]

In the summer of 1983, Bauer managed to persuade his friend Ed Marlo to venture out of Chicago and attend the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians' 51st annual magic convention in Santa Barbara, California, much to the delight of West Coast magicians, many of whom had never had a chance to see Marlo.^[6] The convention was a huge hit, with Marlo, Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, and Jack McMillen all in attendance. It was the only time Marlo and Vernon ever shared a stage.^[7] A photograph of Vernon, Miller, Bauer, and Marlo, posing on a sunny Santa Barbara beach, appears in The Vernon Chronicles, Volume 2: More Lost Inner Secrets by Stephen Minch (1988, p. 216). It's inscribed by Ron Bauer to Bruce Cervon. The same photo without the inscription can be seen to the right.

Returning home to Detroit after finishing his work with Sony, Bauer turned his focus to a new technology: personal computers. He wrote the first book for the public on Microsoft DOS, called Easy DOS It! (1986), which went on to become one of the best-selling computer books of the 1980s. (It's also how Alex Elmsley learned DOS!)

In 1994, Bill Kalush held a private convention in New York City, inviting less than fifty of the top "workers" in the world to discuss and present ideas on a single card trick. Although Bauer was invited, he was unable to attend, but he sent his contribution for the benefit of everyone there.^[8] When Lance Pierce published a private book containing all the material from the event in 1997, he described Bauer like this:

Ron Bauer is the underground legend. A strong creator of routines and effects, he is rarely seen by the cogniscenti and even lesser known among the majority of the fraternity. For those who know, though, Ron represents the type of artist many of us would aspire to be.^[9]

The nickname caught on among magicians, and Bauer has often been known since as "THE Underground Legend."^[10][11][12]

Works

Ron Bauer Private Studies Series

This is a series of 24 annotated performance scripts written by Ron Bauer and illustrated by Sandra Kort. Originally published by John Luka Enterprises. Since late 1999, published by Sandra Kort at E-GADS (Electronic Graphic Art Design Studio). Of the 24 scripts, 23 can be done close-up. The exception is #20 That's the Spirit

#	Title	Creator	Venue	Luka	E-GADS
1	Gadabout Coins Revisited	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2000
2	Sudden Death Gypsy Curse	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2000
3	Feminine Side (Out of This World)	Tony Chaudhuri	Close-Up	1998	2000
4	Butch, Ringo, and the Sheep (Thieves and Sheep)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2002
5	Hornswoggled Again! (Bamboozle)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2001
1	Owed to Poker Dan	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2001
1	Dixie! (Cups and Balls)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2002
1	The Cursed Ring (Ring off Wand)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2000
9	Fair and Sloppy (Slop Shuffle)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1998	2002
10	Left-Handed Hank	Charlie Miller	Close-Up	1999	2001
11	Mechanical Deck (The Pack That Cuts Itself)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up	1999	2001
12	Bar Bill Stunt (Bill Switch)	Paul Chosse	Close-Up	1999	2001
13	Cut-Up Card Trick	[[Senator Crandall]	Close-Up		2003
14	Four Squares and a Knot (Sympathetic Silks)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up		2003
15	The Siamese Goose Egg Bag	Ron Bauer	Close-Up		2003
16	Time Machine	Ed Marlo	Close-Up		2004
17	Second Finger Top Deal	Ron Bauer	Close-Up		2004
18	Xerox Money (Himber Wallet)	Ron Bauer	Close-Up		2000
19	All-Outs Think-of-a-Card	Milt Kort	Close-Up		2005
20	That's the Spirit!	Ron Bauer	Close-Up		2006
21	Final(ly) Aces (Ace Assembly)	Brother Hamman	Close-Up
22	Hat Trick	Jim Bergstrom	Close-Up		2007
23	Worn Out Deck	Bob Longe	Close-Up
24	Sneaky Nudist Rides Again	Don Alan	Close-Up

1. Don Alan's Sneaky Nudist Rides Again (not yet released)

Private Studies Special Editions

• Don Alan's Devano Card Rise (1999)
• The Chick Trick (2002)
• Basic Cups & Balls Technique (2004)
• The Complete Don Alan’s Chop Cup (2005)
• The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture: Notes from "THE Underground Legend" (2008, revised edition 2009)

Other

• Genii
• The New Tops
• M-U-M
• The New Modern Coin Magic by J.B. Bobo (1966)
• Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus by Stephen Minch (1987)
• Cardfixes by Jon Racherbaumer (1990)
• Card Finesse II by Jon Racherbaumer (1992)
• L.I.N.T.: Luka in New Tops by John Luka (1997)
• KORT: The Magic of Milton Kort by Stephen Minch (1999)
• Clever Close-up Magic by Bob Longe (2003)
• Mystifying Card Tricks by Bob Longe (2005)
• Switch: Unfolding the $100 Bill Change by John Lovick (2006)
• Uncovered: Secrets for the Serious Magician by John Luka (2006)
• Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks by Bob Longe (2007)

References

1. ↑ The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, pp. 17-22
2. ↑ The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, pp. 23-28
3. ↑ Chuck Romano, The Art of Deception, 2008, p. 194
4. ↑ The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, Revised Edition 2009, p. 5
5. ↑ E-GADS Press Release, "Now Through Sunday, Ron Bauer is the Featured Guest on England's Premier Web Forum!", MagicTimes, February 20, 2003
6. ↑ Dai Vernon, Genii 1983 August, Vol. 47, No. 8, p. 25
7. ↑ Jon Racherbaumer, "Vernon - Marlo, mutual respect?", The Genii Forum, November 5, 2004
8. ↑ Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994 by Lance Pierce, 1997, pp. 11-12
9. ↑ Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994 by Lance Pierce, 1997, p. 103
10. ↑ John Luka, The Linking Ring, Vol. 77 No. 12, December 1997, p. 39
11. ↑ Dennis Loomis, M-U-M, Vol. 100 No. 6, November 2010, p. 30
12. ↑ Dennis Loomis, M-U-M, Vol. 101 No. 1, June 2011, p. 60

External Links

• Think Like a Conjurer Official Ron Bauer Private Studies Series Website
• Ron Bauer Riffle Action Palm & TTT Video demo on YouTube
• Ron Bauer Interview MagicBunny.co.uk