https://geniimagazine.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Richard+Hatch&feedformat=atomMagicpedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T04:53:42ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.25.5https://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Faucett_Ross&diff=87319Faucett Ross2023-06-23T06:23:48Z<p>Richard Hatch: Changed "Hyde" to "Hugh" in talking about the standard tricks he learned</p>
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| birth_name = Faucett Walter Ross <br />
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'''Faucett Ross''' (November 19, 1900 - May 18, 1987) became a professional magician in the 1930s. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
He was a native and lifelong resident of St. Joseph, Missouri and a veteran of the US. Army in WWII. His grandfather, R.H. Faucett, founded the town of Faucett, Mo. <br />
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Faucett entertained many celebrities and Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman. He considered [[T. Nelson Downs]] his mentor. <br />
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He became a close friend of [[Dai Vernon]]. He helped Dai prepare his [[Ten Card Problems]] (1932) Also known as [[$20 Manuscript]] or ''DeeVee Manuscript'' and stage his Harlequin Act. Ross is also responsible for organizing and co-authoring almost all the Dai Vernon's material in print at the time.Faucett had many friends in magic and it was estimated that during the course of his life he wrote over 20,000 letters.<br />
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Faucett said that there are two standard tricks he did best; the [[Egg Bag]] (taught to him by [[vaudeville]] magician [[Hugh Johnston]]) and the [[Thirty Card Trick]].<br />
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He was awarded an honorary lifetime membership with the [[Academy of Magical Arts]].<ref>Cover, [[Genii 1983 May|Genii Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 5, May 1983]], Faucett W. Ross, page 305</ref><ref>[[Genii 1987 May|Genii Magazine, Vol. 50, No.11, May 1987]], The Vernon Touch, by Dai Vernon, page 773, Obituary, Faucett W. Ross Nov. 19, 1900-May 18, 1987, by John Carney, page 827</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
*[[Magic With Faucett Ross]] by [[Lewis Ganson]] (1975)<br />
*[[Revelations]] (with Dai Vernon) (1984)<br />
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* [[Linking Ring|The Linking Ring, Vol. 67, No. 7, July 1987]], Broken Wand, FAUCETT W. ROSS, page 98 <br />
* http://faucettross.weebly.com/<br />
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[[de:Faucett Ross]]</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ionia&diff=81736Ionia2017-02-10T07:21:24Z<p>Richard Hatch: Typo correction</p>
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| birth_name = Clementine De Vere<br />
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'''Ionia''' (1883 - 1973), daughter of magicians [[Charles De Vere]] and [[Okita]], began performing in 1910 as "Ionia, the Goddess of Mystery" and "The Enchantress".<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
She married an American circus performer named Herman Wirtheim when she was only 15, but divorced him in 1917.<br />
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It was rumored that while touring in Russia during it's Revolution in 1917 she had to hide out for three months and lost all her stuff. However, based on current information it appears that Ionia was not even in Moscow at the time of the Revolution. <br />
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She married Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine in 1919 in Paris but divorced him too in 1928. She kept the title of "Princess" and lived in Paris the rest of her life. She was buried in Paris beside her mother and father.<ref>http://www.magicgallery.com/Ionia%20story.htm</ref><br />
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[[Category:Female magicians]]</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harry_Blackstone_Sr.&diff=81642Harry Blackstone Sr.2017-01-22T05:05:11Z<p>Richard Hatch: Changed his birth name from "Harry" to "Henry" and deleted reference to his "Jewish parents" (mother was Catholic, father was Protestant. He was baptised Catholic)</p>
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| birth_year = 1885 <br />
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois <br />
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'''Harry Blackstone''' (September 27, 1885 - November 16, 1965) was born Henry Boughton and was raised in Chicago, Illinois.<ref>[[Genii 1951 January]] (cover)</ref> He began his career as a magician in his teens, and was popular through World War II as a [[USO]] entertainer.<br>He was often billed as "The Great Blackstone". His son [[Harry Blackstone, Jr.]] also became a magician.<br />
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== Career in Magic ==<br />
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Blackstone was in the mode of courtly elegant predecessor magicians like [[Howard Thurston]] and [[Harry Kellar]]. He often wore white tie and tails when performing, and he traveled with large illusions and a sizable cast of uniformed male and female assistants. For a number of years he toured in the Midwest, often performing throughout the day in movie theaters between film showings.{{Youtube thumb|0S6tAndzLcw}}<br />
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[[File: GeniiCoverV15N5.jpg|thumb|left|185px|Cover of Genii (1951)]]<br />
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Blackstone and [[Percy Abbott]] formed the [[Blackstone Magic Company]] in [[1928]], but it only lasted a little over a year. <br />
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Blackstone remained silent during much of his big stage show, which was presented to the accompaniment of a pit orchestra and such lively tunes of the time as "Who," "I Know That You Know," and "Chinatown."<br />
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Among his especially effective illusions was one in which a woman lying on a couch and covered with a gossamer shroud appeared to float high in the air and then vanish, as Blackstone pulled off the covering. In another illusion, a woman stepped into a cabinet in front of many bright, clear, tubular incandescent light bulbs. When the magician suddenly pushed the perforated front of the cabinet backward, she seemed to be pierced as it appeared through the holes in the front of the box (to the accompaniment of her blood-curdling scream). The cabinet was then revolved so that the audience seemed to see the lady impaled by the blinding filaments.<br />
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His "[[Buzz Saw Illusion| Sawing a Woman in Half]]" illusion involved an enormous electric circular saw, some three to four feet in diameter, mounted on a swing-down arm. Blackstone demonstrated the efficacy of the device by sawing noisily through a piece of lumber. Then a gossamer-clad assistant was placed on the saw table in full view, as wide metal restraints were placed upon her mid-section. The blade whirred and appeared to pass through her body, as a ripping sound was heard, the woman shrieked, and particles were scattered by the whirring blade. The blade was stopped, and she, of course, would then arise unharmed.<ref>VIDEO: Harry Blackstone, Sr. performing his buzz-saw "Sawing a Woman in Half" illusion in 1934 - "YouTube Vintage Magic Archives"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdeGOBkJoMM&feature=youtu.be|] Accessed 2015-07-21</ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdeGOBkJoMM&feature=youtu.be| video]<br />
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In a gentler turn was his "[[Vanishing Bird Cage]]," an effect in which a score or more of children were invited to join him on the stage and all "put their hands on" a tiny cage holding a canary. Blackstone lowered the cage and then seemed to toss it into the air, bird and cage "disappearing" in the process, to the astonishment and delight of the surprised children.<br />
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Among his lovelier effects was "The Garden of Flowers," in which countless bouquets of brilliant feather flowers appeared from under a foulard and on tables and stands until the stage was a riot of color. "The Floating Light Bulb" was perhaps his signature piece. In a darkened theater, Blackstone would take a lighted bulb from a lamp and float it, still glowing, through a small hoop. He would then come down from the stage and the lamp would float out over the heads of the audience. <br />
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== Blackstone Comic Books ==<br />
Blackstone was used as a character in a series of comic books. "Blackstone, Master Magician" comics came out in 1946, and ran for three issues. The comic book was later renamed "Blackstone The Magician Detective", which also ran for three issues.<br />
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An 8-page booklet of trick instructions, in comic book format, called "Pennzoil Presents: Blackstone, Master Magician" was also published in the 1940s.<br />
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== Blackstone Radio ==<br />
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[[Blackstone, the Magic Detective]] was a 15-minute radio series which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1948 until 1950. <br />
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==Death and Memorial Tributes== <br />
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Blackstone spent the last years of his life performing at The [[Magic Castle]], in Hollywood, California. He died at the age of 80 in Hollywood, in 1965, and is interred close to his former home, in the Lakeside Cemetery in Colon, Michigan.<br />
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The main street in Colon was renamed "Blackstone Ave." in his honor.<br />
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He is also memorialized by the State of Michigan with an official Michigan Historical Marker at the [[American Museum of Magic]] in Colon.<ref>[http://www.michmarkers.com/Frameset.htm Michigan Historical Markers]</ref><br />
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In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Harry Blackstone, Jr. donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. his father's original "Floating Light Bulb", designed and built for him by Thomas Edison, and the original Casadega Cabinet used in his "[[Dancing Handkerchief]]" illusion. This marked the first time the Smithsonian had ever accepted a donation in the field of Magic for inclusion in their permanent museum collection.<ref>[http://www.amdest.com/stars/harryb.html Harry Blackstone Jr. donates Harry Blackstone Sr. illusions to Smithsonian.]</ref><br />
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* The Sphinx, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, May 1935, Harry Blackstone, page 68 <br />
* The Bat, No. 23, November 1945, MAGICIAN NO. 1 By MAURICE ZOLOTOW, pages 121-124<br />
* [[Genii 1957 June|Genii, Vol. 21, No. 10, June 1957]], Blackstone A Review of His Show At The Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles, California BY ARNOLD FURST, page 380 <br />
* M-U-M, Vol. 52, No. 4, September 1962, HARRY BLACKSTONE magician-of-the-month by LESLIE P. GUEST, page 186 <br />
* The New TOPS, Vol. 5, No. 12, December 1965, THE GREAT BLACKSTONE, page 8 <br />
* The Linking Ring, Vol. 45, No. 12, December 1965, Broken Wand HARRY BLACKSTONE, page 121 <br />
* The New Tops, Vol. 9, No. 11, November 1969, 1885 - Harry Blackstone - 1965, "I remember ..." by David Price, page 24 <br />
* M-U-M, Vol. 98, Nr. 4, September 2008, THE NIELSEN GALLERY, BLACKSTONE, page 58 <br />
* Photo [[Genii 1952 June]]<br />
* [[Blackstone: A Magician's Life]] by Daniel Waldron (1999)<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackstone Sr.}}</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Howard_Adams&diff=80375Howard Adams2016-04-05T06:37:34Z<p>Richard Hatch: Added death date and place from ww.tributes.com/obituary/show/Howard-Anthony-Adams-90385313</p>
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'''Howard Adams''' (b.1931) has written over 300 effects in numerous books.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Adams grew up in Buffalo and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946 and joined the [[IBM]] Ring 21 in Hollywood in the 1960s.<br />
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His first effect appeared in [[The Phoenix]] at the age of 16.<br />
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After 45 years as a landscape, he retired to Laguna Niguel in 1995.<ref>One Man Parade, Linking Ring, April 1999</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
*[[Magic Dungeon Mentalism]] (With [[Robert Wagner]] - 1972)<br />
*Series O.I.C.U.F.E.S.P. 10 Volumes 1979-1983<br />
*Series M.I.N.D.E.S.P.A. 12 Issues<br />
*666 Mentalism (2008)<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams,Howard}}</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Frank_Eliason&diff=79680Frank Eliason2016-01-14T00:21:21Z<p>Richard Hatch: /* Biography */ grammatical correction</p>
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'''Frank Eliason''' (1875-?) was the brother of "Dante, The Mormon Wizard", [[Oscar Eliason]] (1869-1899), for whom he worked as main assistant in the 1890s.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Frank Eliason took over his brother's touring show when Oscar died and adopted the name "Dante" in 1899.<ref>Mahatma, July 1899</ref> He left Australia in late 1904 and the last reference located about Frank was a reported in [[Magic Mirror]] magazine, Australia, August 15, 1911. <br />
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He was performing in the United States under the name "Cunning", although this may be incorrect as there were other magicians using the name at the time. <br />
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He performed under the name '''Frank Frazee''' from around 1903 through to at least 1914.<ref>http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=47668&p=321812#p321812</ref><br />
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[[Eugene Laurant]] recollects, in the "The Sphinx" magazine March 1942, meeting Frank some years after 1899, when Frank was "performing the Spirit Seance in [[vaudeville]]."<ref>Magical Nights at the Theatre : A Chronicle by Waller, Charles (1980)</ref><br />
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In May of 1921, he suffered a fractured skull when he struck his head against the floor of his apartment while ill. He was taking from his home at 322 West Forty-second street to Bellevue Hospital and was in serious condition.<ref>Billboard 5/14/1921 p. 10</ref><br />
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* http://sydneymagic.net/DANTE/OE8-ADDENDUM/oe8-addendum.html<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eliason,Frank}}</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mademoiselle_Patrice&diff=78830Mademoiselle Patrice2015-12-08T21:10:18Z<p>Richard Hatch: Madame changed to Mademoiselle</p>
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'''Mademoiselle Patrice''' (fl. 1890s), born of a German mother in the United Kingdom, was the first lady magician to be called a 'conjuress'. <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
She originally assisted [[Charles Bertram]] and later became known as a very accomplished magician in her own right Married to [[C. Lang Neil]] in 1893, Mademoiselle Patrice entertained royalty on a number of occasions. She was a very well-educated women and spoke several European languages. <br />
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* [[Genii 1948 February]], Vol 12, issue 6, p. 173, P C Sorcar: Ladies in Magic<br />
* Linking Ring Vol 38, iss 11, p28 (Jan 1959)<br />
* Magic Circular vol 74, iss 806, (May 1980)<br />
* London Census 1901 & 1911<br />
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[[Category:British magicians]]</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Carlyle&diff=78826Carlyle2015-12-07T07:29:56Z<p>Richard Hatch: 1966 corrected to 1996</p>
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'''Carlyle''' (1906-1996) performed his stage act around the United States in auditoriums, hotels and supper clubs throughout the Depression.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
He worked numerous odd jobs and served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy before becoming a professional performer in the late 1920's, using the stage name Carlyle. <br />
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He retired from performing in 1954, settling down to raise his kids, operating a successful camera repairing business in Oakland, California.<br />
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His wife and assistant, Wanda, was a past officer of the International [[Magigals]]. She passed away in 1982.<br />
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Carlyle invented the Three-To-One Ropes routine and contributed many effects to [[Genii]] and [[Hugard's Magic Monthly]].<br />
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Carlyle was eulogized at his funeral on October 30th, 1996 by his longtime friend [[Lee Grabel]].<ref>[[Genii 1997 February|Genii, Vol. 60, No. 4, February 1997]], In Memorium Lyle F. Laughlin, page 72</ref><ref>The Linking Ring, Vol. 77, No. 3, March 1997, BROKEN WAND LYLE F. (CARLYLE) LAUGHLIN, page 144</ref><ref>M-U-M, Vol. 86, No. 10, March 1997, BROKEN WANDS Lyle F. Laughlin, page 47</ref><br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlyle}}</div>Richard Hatchhttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Erdnase&diff=78819Erdnase2015-12-03T21:04:26Z<p>Richard Hatch: /* Edwin Summer Andrews */</p>
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'''S. W. Erdnase''' (most likely a pseudonym) is the author of [[The Expert at the Card Table]], a book detailing sleight of hand and cheating techniques using playing cards which has been in continual publication since 1902. Erdnase's true identity is one of the enduring mysteries of the magic community.<br />
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== Research into the identity of Erdnase ==<br />
[[Martin Gardner]]'s research, now largely discredited, proposes that the real Erdnase was Milton Franklin Andrews, and that the book was ghost-written by [[William John Hilliar]]. (S. W. Erdnase spelled backwards is E.S. Andrews, lending support to the theory that Andrews was the author's last name)<br />
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There are numerous possible candidates discovered by [[David Alexander]], [[Richard Hatch]], and [[Todd Karr]] (among others), any of whom might be the pseudonymous author. The candidates by Alexander and Hatch have been profiled in (respectively) [[Genii]], [[MAGIC]] and [[Magicol]]. Karr's candidate is identified as a Midwestern-based con artist named E. S. Andrews who was active around the turn of the century and whose biography seems to fit Erdnase's.<br />
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== Known facts ==<br />
* The author's last name in reverse is "e s andrews".<br />
* The author points out in the introduction the need for money.<br />
* Some of the illustrations in the book carry a copyright statement right beneath the drawing, but others don't. <br />
* Marshall Smith did the illustrations for the book.<br />
** Smith says he met the author in a hotel room and was paid for his artwork with a check.<br />
** Smith described the author as well-spoken and gentlemanly, short of stature, with a pleasant, smooth tone.<br />
** Smith expressed his surprise at the number of drawings (101) in the book because he didn't remember drawing so many. Only 20 or 30.<br />
** Smith stated that the author mentioned a family connection to Louis Dalrymple, a political cartoonist.<br />
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== Assumptions ==<br />
* The author appears to have been highly knowledgeable in psychology, deception and gambling, based on contents of the book and the level of subtlety in his explanations.<br />
* The author appears to have had some knowledge of the law or access to legal advice, based on the elaborate copyright notices throughout the book; or was just paranoid.<br />
* Smith's illustrations appear to have been crudely altered, perhaps an indication that the author did not have sufficient funds for professional corrections.<br />
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== Candidates ==<br />
There have been attempts at identifying candidates that could have been writing as Erdanse. <br />
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=== James J. Andrews ===<br />
In 1946, Martin Gardner located the Chicago-based Marshall D. Smith, the artist who had done the drawings that illustrated the book. Smith gave his account of is single meeting with the author (44 years earlier). <br />
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This led to searching for a James Andrews, which spells S.W. Erdnase backwards if you drop the first three letters [Jam]esandrEWS). He found a James J. Andrews listed in The New York City Directory for 1909 lists a clairvoyant, living at 398 Sixth Avenue and an article written by a "James Andrews" published in Harper's Magazine (June 26, 1909) titled "The Confessions of a Fakir".<ref>Erdnase, [[Genii 1948 July]]</ref><ref>The Conjuror's Magazine of August 1949</ref><br />
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Gardner eventually dropped this candidate in favor of Milton F. Andrews.<br />
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=== James M. Andrews ===<br />
Scott Edward Lane, on the Genii Forum<ref>http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1240&sid=8343b6408f85a7dfdc775ed0f9ff248b</ref> proposed a James M. Andrews. This Andrews was a hotel/casino owner and operator in Chicago, and also an expert card dealer, around 1902.<br />
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=== Milton Franklin Andrews ===<br />
Based on another lead provided by [[Edgar Pratt]], Gardner found a cardsharp from Hartford, Connecticut, named Milton Franklin Andrews. Andrews died during a murder-suicide in 1905 in San Francisco just as the police were closing in to question him about the killing in Colorado. Smith was also certain that Erdnase told him he was related to the political artist, Louis Dalrymple. <ref>The Man Who Was Erdnase by Bart Whaley and Martin Gardner and Jeff Busby ISBN 9781563010002</ref><br />
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=== James DeWitt Andrews ===<br />
Proposed by Richard Hatch, James DeWitt Andrews was a Chicago lawyer who wrote many manuscripts. Many including the word 'treatise' on the title page like "The Expert at the Card Table".<ref>MAGIC, December 1999</ref> Other candidates researched by Hatch have been a Canadian riverboat captain named E. S. Andrews, a Michigan newspaper publisher named E. S. Andrews, a British engineer named E. S. Andrews (first noted by Mike Perovich) and William Symes Andrews (1847-1929), a American electrical engineer who wrote a book on Magic Squares, published in Chicago in 1908. He discounted all these when he stumbled uopn Edwin Summer Andrews while searching for a relationship to Louis Dalrymple.<ref>http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=12598</ref><br />
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=== Edwin Summer Andrews ===<br />
In 1999 Richard Hatch proposed a longtime traveling agent for Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, whose job would have given him plenty of opportunity to ply the cardsharp’s trade named Edwin Sumner (possibly "Summer") Andrews. The railroad man signed his name “E. S. Andrews” on his 1898 license to marry Dollie Seely in Illinois. <br />
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Also, Louis Dalrymple’s mother is Adelia Seeley (but notice different spelling) who was from upstate New York, which was the home turf of Dollie’s father, Solomon Seely.<ref>[http://www.geniimagazine.com/back_issues/2000/index.html January 2000 Genii - New Light on Erdnase by David Alexander]</ref><ref>[http://mnw.squarespace.com/magicnewsfeed/2012/2/17/mnw-331-hatch-england-talk-erdnase.html MNW #331 :: HATCH & ENGLAND TALK ERDNASE]</ref><br />
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=== Wilbur Edgerton Sanders ===<br />
David Alexander's research (with Richard Kyle) led him to propose [[Wilbur Edgerton Sanders]], a wealthy and well-educated mining engineer and the author of a standard text on mining. His family was a politically powerful family in Montana.<ref>[http://www.magicmagazine.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=90 Searching for Erdnase by Richard Hatch, Magic Magazine December 1999 ]</ref> "S. W. Erdnase" is an anagram of "W. E. Sanders" and Genii Magazine devoted a large portion of its [[Genii 2011 September|September 2011 issue]] with new work by Marty Demarest to an exploration of Alexander's theory, providing substantial circumstantial evidence that links Sanders to Erdnase.<ref> http://www.erdnaseum.com</ref><br />
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===E. S. Andrews===<br />
Todd Karr's research focused on a con man named E. S. Andrews from Chicago that swindle businessmen and doctors and appeared to have had over $900 just before the publication of The Expert at the Card Table. Karr tracked E. S. Andrews life through newspaper accounts of his arrests throughout the country.<ref>[http://www.miraclefactory.net/mpt/view.php?id=194&type=articles Is This Erdnase? by Todd Karr] from Magical Past-Times: The On-Line Journal of Magic History</ref><br />
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=== Robert Frederick Foster ===<br />
Peter Kane and Jerry Sadowitz believed text found in The Complete Hoyle (1897) written by Foster has very similar styles to Erdnase. Foster was a member of the Society of American Magicians and could possibly have met Erdnase and assisted with the Ledgerdemain section. <ref>Phantoms of the Card Table by David Britland & Gazzo (page 54, the search for Erdnase).</ref><br />
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=== Herbert Lee Andrews ===<br />
Richard Wiseman on his blog proposed Herbert Lee Andrews (1844 - 1906), who's wife named Emma Shaw Andrews would be "S.W Erdnase" in reverse. He lived in Chicago around the time of publication and helped run a business just a few blocks away from James McKinney and Co, the company that printed the book.<ref>http://www.richardwiseman.com/erdnase.html</ref><br />
===L'Homme Masque===<br />
[[Juan Tamariz]] has advanced the theory that Erdnase was written, or at least helped with editing the book, by the Peruvian magician named "[[L'Homme Masque]]" (The Masked Man), who lived in Europe. During the 9th Congress of the [[Latin American Federation of Magic Societies]] (FLASOMA 2009) held in Peru, he explained the reasons. During the explanation of this theory [[Gaetan Bloom]] was present, supporting this hypothesis.<br />
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=== E. S. Burns ===<br />
[[E. S. Burns]], the proprietor of the Atlas Novelty Company in Chicago, Illinois, was nominated by [[Hurt McDermott]] in his book "Artifice, Ruse & Erdnase" as a possible dark-horse candidate. Hurt summarizes though with ''"The only problem is there is no evidence."''<br />
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=== August Roterberg ===<br />
[[August Roterberg]] August Roterberg (1867-1928), born in Germany and emigrated to the United States around 1883 as a teenager, was a magic dealer, inventor and started the modern age of magic publishing in Chicago. He published [[Card Tricks and How To Do Them]], the same year as Erdnase's Expert.<ref>Artifice, ruse & Erdnase by Hurt McDermott (2012)</ref><ref>http://www.lybrary.com/the-hunt-for-erdnase-the-nickname-theory-and-the-connection-to-august-roterberg-a-27.html</ref><br />
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=== William Symes Andrews (1847-1929) ===<br />
William Symes Andrews, a American electrical engineer who wrote a book on Magic Squares<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Symes_Andrews</ref>, published in Chicago in 1908 by the Open Court publishing company (who also published Evans OLD AND NEW MAGIC). He is much older than recalled by Marshall Smith, but [[Al Flosso]] seemed to have thought he was Erdnase<ref>http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=27997&p=12597</ref><br />
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=== Harry Stuart Thompson (1858-1930)===<br />
Peter Zenner had a hunch that "Erdnase" was associated with the people behind the publication of ''[[The Sphinx]]''. He suspected [[Harry S. Thompson]] in April, 2013, and started to research his life. Brought up in his father's printing and publishing business in Chicago, Harry was a commercial salesman, specialising in printing inks, at the time of the publication of ''The Expert''. He was an expert in sleight of hand and had one of the largest magic libraries in America. A friend of Houdini's, Harry was able to show Harry his card moves and that is why they were miscredited. A small man, aged 44 on February 28, 1902; he fitted Marshall D. Smith's description perfectly. <ref>[http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1240&p=313205#p313205 See the posting on the Genii Forum dated July 7th, 2015 ]</ref><br />
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=== Edward Gallaway (1868-1930) ===<br />
Chris Wasshuber has proposed Edward Gallaway, a typsetter working a James McKinney & Co. during the time the book<br />
was printed there, based on his reading of the McKinney bankruptcy files<ref>http://askalexander.org/browse/485/McKinney+Bankruptcy+Papers</ref> and other research.<ref>http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1240</ref><br />
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Wasshuber hired forensic linguistic expert John Olsson<ref>http://www.thetext.co.uk/john_olsson.html</ref> to compare Gallaway's book "Estimating for printers" with EACT. Though not conclusive, he found very promising similarities.<br />
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Edward Gallaway owned a first edition of "Expert at the Card Table" which was uncovered during research done by Jay Marshall in the 1950s.<ref> Lybrary.com Magic newsletter #681 7/30/2015</ref><br />
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== Erdnase in popular culture ==<br />
=== Erdnase, The Musical ===<br />
Peregrine Arts is in the process of developing, for Spring 2008, "Who Killed Erdnase?", a new music-theater work by the Ridge Theater and Gavin Bryars team in conjunction with author Glen David Gold. See more info at [http://www.philadelphiamusicproject.org philadelphia music project] and [http://www.peregrinearts.org/events.html peregrine arts]<br />
=== Erdnase, The Play ===<br />
[[Neil Patrick Harris]] teamed with [[Guy Hollingworth]] to direct him in "The Expert at the Card Table," a small, intimate show that ran from July 13 to August 7 2011 at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, California. Written by Hollingworth, the show is an adaptation about the author of the influential book and how it came to be.<br />
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==External Resources ==<br />
*[http://geniimagazine.com/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000947 Genii Forum Topic on Erdnase]<br />
* [http://www.erdnase.com/ Erdnase.com]<br />
* [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2001/3/2001_3_56.shtml THE MAGICIAN AND THE CARDSHARP by Karl Johnson for American Heritage Magazine, which includes the sidebar WHO WAS ERDNASE? CARD CONJURING’S MOST ENDURING MYSTERY]<br />
*[http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0035.htm Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 35 – August 26, 2000 - Whatever Happened to S.W. Erdnase?]<br />
* ''The Expert at the Card Table: Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge DVD'' from Geno Munari ([http://www.houdini.com Houdini.com]) contains a film characterization of S.W. Erdnase, interviews with Richard Hatch and Bart Whaley on the Mystery of Erdnase, an interview with Martin Gardner, "The Gardner-Smith Correspondence", "The Murderous Card Shark" by Martin Gardner and John Conrad, "Was Erdnase Abdul Aziz Khan" By Martin Gardner, and newspaper articles. <br />
* [[The Annotated Erdnase]] by Darwin Ortiz (1991) contains "The Search For Erdnase" by Martin Gardner.<br />
* "S.W. Erdnase: Another View" by Thomas A. Sawyer (1991) - Self-published, 67 pages, addresses the conclusions of The Man Who Was Erdnase and the Andrews data from The Annotated Erdnase. <br />
* "Further Thoughts on S.W. Erdnase" by Thomas A. Sawyer (1997). <br />
* The Gardner-Smith Correspondence by Martin Gardner, limited edition reprint by H&R Magic Books (1999)<br />
* [http://www.everythingerdnase.com/exhibit/ www.EverythingErdnase.com], created by Julie Eng and Jason England, explores all of the different editions of The Expert at the Card Table, a book which has been perpetually in print for over 100 years.<br />
* "Erdnase Unmasked" (2011) - a composite of articles culled from the pages of Magicol, The Journal of Magic History and Collectibles No. 180 (Auguts 2011). It also includes a reprint of Martin Gardner’s article, “Editions of Erdnase”, that first appeared in Magicol, (Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1951), a private publication reserved for members of the Magic Collectors Association. http://www.magicana.com/mca/so-erdnase.php?vSec=spc<br />
* The Mysterious Gambler by Bart Whaley - A booklet featuring two essays. This first is an extensive study on who were the writer and publisher of the 1864 book "How Gamblers Win." The second essay titled "Loose Ends & Dead Ends" is about the identity of Erdnase and in particular some additional information and ideas that came about after "The Man Who Was Erdnase" was published.<br />
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* [http://www.everythingerdnase.com/exhibit/ Everything Erdnase Exhibit]<br />
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