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Ron Bauer
BornRonald Raymond Bauer
1938
Portland, Oregon

CategoriesBooks 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 seeing a sign advertising "Magic" in a store window, Bauer became interested in the art at age 11. 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 got involved in acting 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 highly successful children's entertainment company based in the prestigious Detroit-suburb Birmingham.

After almost a decade running Mr. Trix, Bauer turned his attention back to the video industry, and wrote, produced, and marketed the first training course in non-broadcast video production in the late seventies. His work in the video industry landed him a deal with Sony in the early eighties, and he headed to California.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5] 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).

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.[6] 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.[7]

The nickname caught on among magicians, and Bauer has often been known since as "THE Underground Legend."

The 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).

  1. Gadabout Coins Revisited (1998, revised edition 2000)
  2. Sudden Death Gypsy Curse (1998, revised edition 2000)
  3. Tony Chaudhuri's Feminine Side (1998, revised edition 2000) (Out of This World)
  4. Butch, Ringo, and the Sheep (1998, revised edition 2002) (Thieves and Sheep)
  5. Hornswoggled Again! (1998, revised edition 2001) (Bamboozle)
  6. Owed to Poker Dan (1998, revised edition 2001)
  7. Dixie! (1998, revised edition 2002) (Cups and Balls)
  8. The Cursed Ring (1998, revised edition 2000) (Ring off Wand)
  9. Fair and Sloppy (1998, revised edition 2002) (Slop Shuffle)
  10. Charlie Miller's Left-Handed Hank (1999, revised edition 2001)
  11. The Mechanical Deck (1999, revised edition 2001) (The Pack That Cuts Itself)
  12. Paul Chosse's Bar Bill Stunt (1999, revised edition 2001) (Bill Switch)
  13. Senator Crandall's Cut-Up Card Trick (2003)
  14. Four Squares and a Knot (2003) (Sympathetic Silks)
  15. The Siamese Goose Egg Bag (2003)
  16. Ed Marlo's Time Machine (2004)
  17. Second Finger Top Deal (2004)
  18. Xerox Money (2000) (Himber Wallet)
  19. Milt Kort's All-Outs Think-of-a-Card (2005)
  20. Brother Hamman's Final(ly) Aces (2006) (Ace Assembly)
  21. That's the Spirit! (not yet released)
  22. Jim Bergstrom's Hat Trick (2007)
  23. Bob Longe's Worn Out Deck (not yet released)
  24. Don Alan's Sneaky Nudist Rides Again (not yet released)

Special Editions

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

Published Tricks In

References

  1. The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, pp. 17-22
  2. The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, pp. 23-28
  3. E-GADS Press Release, "Now Through Sunday, Ron Bauer is the Featured Guest on England's Premier Web Forum!", MagicTimes, February 20, 2003
  4. "The Vernon Touch" by Dai Vernon, Genii 1983 August, Vol. 47, No. 8, p. 25
  5. Jon Racherbaumer, "Vernon - Marlo, mutual respect?", The Genii Forum, November 5, 2004
  6. Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994 by Lance Pierce, 1997, pp. 11-12
  7. Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994 by Lance Pierce, 1997, p. 103

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