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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5155 Posts |
Great stuff from the usual Café cognoscenti. Thank you Dick, Bill, and Jay.
I often wonder too if audiences back then associated the amount of apparatus with the quality of the show and performer, i.e. "If he has a lot of props he must be successful enough to acquire them, and talented enough to know how to use them. I'll probably get my money's worth."
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
Interesting point, WIZ!
I think that I mentioned in my book, a "humorous" comment supposedly made by a spectator, as the curtain opened, and he saw a stage FULL of "esoteric props: "Oh dear! Do we have to sit here for all THAT?!"
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9987 Posts |
As a kid I teethed on early Genii magazines, 1935-1946. I recall a frustrating emphasis on billiard balls and cigarettes, neither of which I could do.
So, I developed a fondness for rope and silk effects that received mild coverage. The I got use of a Tarbell set ... My point is that what was popular for well known stage magicians was not necessarily what was popular with those swelling the ranks of Magic Circles across the country
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
I was born, Dec. 11, 1931, and, didn't see a magician (the late Stanley Susan)perform until sometime during the school year, 1938/39. In '39, I saw Keystone, the magician (Clifford Withdrow --according to a brief item in Percy Abbott's "TOPS" magazine, which I saw about 1946.) In '41, I saw a magician in the side show of the Bud E. Anderson Circus.
Stanley did a program that used, the Passe Bottles, Afghan Bands (at the circus patter) a rope trick, a Lota bowl presentation (he used a foo can) an open parasol production from a foulard, and an egg bag. That's all I remember! The circus sideshow magician did the Chinese Sticks, a version of what is now called "Slydini Knots", and a blade box. It was a "sit down" blade box with real sabers. Keystone did a "catalog show" (Abbott's catalog!). The stage was crowded with painted plywood, and Chrome plated "cans, pans, and tubes". --Oh! he also did a penetration with a DeMuth milk bottle, and, the Indian Needle Trick.
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