I have been combing thru old magic books for a couple of weeks. One thing have noticed in so many is that the first part of the book is all about cleaning your fingernails, washing your hair, buying a decent suit and so on. I even noticed it Osterlind's essays. Many of these books are kinda old, but geez were so many magicians clueless to this stuff. It seems funny, but apparently was needed to be said. It reminded me of a comment that came from one of Copperfield's guys. He said a lot of magicians ask me what equipment I should buy for my act and I'm tempted to tell them get a treadmill. Have many of you have seen nasty magicians that needed this advice?

Yes. Yes I have met a few, and I've been given videos of many more.

Goshman.

There have been many and still are some that believe that their talent is the only thing that matters. That is far from the truth when it comes to being a likeable entertainer/person. That could be because magicians are taught from the beginning that the top three rules in magic is practice, practice, practice. So much weight is given to the talent part alone that everything else is thrown to the side.

Nobody can help how they look, but they can at least touch themselves up the best they can when going out in public.

Honesty, I have seen some magicians that I would hate to run up on in the dark. Yet they want advice for working with small children.

Tom

Most magicians are skint and as we say there is only one thing worse than being skint and that is looking it. The unwashed or the great unwashed is a way of referring to poor people. A magician they say is a man with dirty hands in white gloves. Well, it is a dirty business but somebody has got to do it.

Good point. Also, Larry Jennings always looked like he just came from work and the bar. When I was a kid a lot of the books discussed looking good, etc. I perused about 70 books on mentalism and magic and was cracking up at the numbers of pages devoted to it.

You will have nothing to worry about with me in that type of atmosphere.

You saw my hands didn't you, Tommy. But I promise you it is not what you think it is.

No we are people of class and culture. Some forget the little things and why it's in some books on close up.