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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
Back when I was a kid, I saw a magician by the name of Aubrey on "You Asked For it" a couple of times. One time he did Zombie (my first time watching the trick, and it gave me goosebumps), and the other time he did the Disembodied Princess.
I haven't run across the name in years. Does anyone know anything about him?
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I found this:
http://www.markwilsonmagic.com/MagicCircusCol.htm Scroll down the page about halfway, and there is a reference to James Aubrey, regarding an improvement to the Girl Without a Middle illusion. ...and also this: http://www.magictricks.com/bios/whoswhoab.htm Scroll down to Aubrey.
~michael baker
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Irish_matt Loyal user St.Louis, MO 204 Posts |
Hi George,
Aubrey was born James Crabe in 1931. I got an old B/W ideo from the SAM library a few years ago... I think it may have included some of the Aubrey clips as well as Kirk Kirkham. It was called Panorama of Magic Matt |
George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
Thanks, guys! I'll look into this.
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
Aubrey was a very close friend of Blackstone, Sr. When it appeared that Harry Blackstone, Jr. was not going to take up the mantle, Aubrey learned from HBSr.
"The Swatter"
Founder of CODBAMMC My Chickasaw name is "Throws Money at Cups." www.cupsandballsmuseum.com |
Rick Fisher Elite user Rick Fisher 471 Posts |
You can actually see Aubrey on Blackstone: This Is Your life - He makes a oouple of appearances on it...
Also believe he was a movie producer/director He appeared here in Colon back in the 1950's and from all accounts was quite a hit...he died at a pretty young age - in his 50's I believe. |
NicholasD Inner circle 1458 Posts |
I saw Aubrey on TV some time in the seventies, I believe. Beautiful Billiard Ball work.
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
All above are correct, and his main living came from film work and did die at a very young age. He was one of the finest manipulators of his time.
STAY TOONED... @ www.pete-biro.com
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John Martin Inner circle 1017 Posts |
If I'm not mistaken, Paul Osbourne ended up with a lot of his show. I can remember a picture (Genii or M.U.M.) of him standing with illusions from the Aubrey show.
All the best, John |
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Osborne's article in Genii, (Feb 2004) is a description of Aubrey's Asrah, as presented on Art Baker's TV show "You Asked For It". It is also mentioned there that he ended up with Aubrey's show.
~michael
~michael baker
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jwebyra Regular user New Jersey 140 Posts |
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On 2007-09-11 08:49, John1964 wrote: If I remember correctly Mr. Aubrey died about 1988-1989, Mr. Osborne did purchase Mr. Aubrey's magic from his father around 1989. In Mr. Osborne's "The Big Black Book" he has pictures of the illusions when they arrived and were unpacked. Ron |
DarksideDeceptions New user 2 Posts |
Here is a recording and performance of Magician Aubrey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8Jq5SztNE
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Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts |
There is some detailed information about Aubrey at the GENII MagicPedia:
http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Aubrey ----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez
----- Sonny Narvaez
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