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Jean Irving
| Jean Irving | |
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| Born | Irving Eugene Watson December 21, 1872 Binghampton, New York |
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| Died | January 5, 1944 (age 71) Jersey City, New Jersey |
Jean Irving (1872-1944) was a professional fire-eater, trapeze artist and magician for fifty-two years and was known to friends as "The Magician of Hubers Museum".
Biography
At sixteen he was doing a Trapeze Act with his older brother.
Irving also performed as "Dantell," "Nemo", and "Nostaro". [1] As the "Human Salamander," he worked Side Shows, Museums, and other attractions.
In 1894 he entertained Grover Cleveland, then President of the United States.[2]
Irving was President of the National Conjurers Association from 1918 until 1919 and was one of the organizers of its famous "Inner Circle", which met at Trilby's, in New York's Greenwich Village district.[3]
In 1926, a Sam Brown of Marion, Ohio was submitting magic tricks to the magazine "Popular Magic" under the name of Jean Irving (unknown to him that there was already a magician using that name). [4]
Contributions
- 50 YEARS IN SEARCH OF EXPERIENCE, Sphinx June 1940
- "Peek!" in The Phoenix, no. 70, October 10th 1944, reprint in Professional Magic Made Easy by Bruce Elliott (1959)
References
- ↑ Magic World August 1918
- ↑ Obit Genii 1944 February
- ↑ Linking Ring (January, 1927); page 859
- ↑ Letter to MUM April 1926.
- Who's Who in Magic, Sphinx, March, 1932