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P. C. Sorcar (1913-1971) was the stage name of the Indian magician, Protul Chandra Sorcar.
Sorcar was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. He died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. His son fulfilled the rest of his contract.
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P. C. Sorcar (1913-1971) was the stage name of the Indian magician, Protul Chandra Sorcar.
Sorcar was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. He died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. His son fulfilled the rest of his contract.
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P. C. Sorcar (1913-1971) was the stage name of the Indian magician, Protul Chandra Sorcar.
Sorcar was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. He died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. His son fulfilled the rest of his contract.
See more about P.C. Sorcar on MagicPedia.
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P. C. Sorcar (1913-1971) was the stage name of the Indian magician, Protul Chandra Sorcar.
Sorcar was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. He died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. His son fulfilled the rest of his contract.
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E. Leslie Briant was a part-time professional magician who billed himself as “Lafayette, The Argentine Wizard”.
He went to South America as a young man, employed in the Bank of London and South America. Living first in Montevideo before moving to Argentina, where he spent the rest of his working life.
Briant began magic professionally in 1920 and developed a full evening show.
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Ernest Noakes (1873-1956) was a London society magician and a prominent member of the Magic Circle.
Noakes was the second President of the Magic Circle and later as Honorary Vice President.
In the early spring of 1907, performed at the Electric Theatre at the Crystal Palace for a total of fifty weeks, during which he gave well over a thousand performances.
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Harry Kaye (1896-1951) was a professional magician specializing in magic with humor.
He later became a businessman, traveling many thousands of miles each year in pursuit of his business.
Kaye was very active in the magic community as member of the Magic Circle, I.B.M., I.M.C., and the Merlin Magical Society.
He wrote a “Magical Gossip” column for the I.M.C. “Seven Circles” journal. He was later an editor The Budget, the official journal of the IBM British Ring #25.
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Ross Canyears aka “Alexander Ross”
1856 – 1901
Scottish drawing room conjurer.
For more detail: Stanyon’s Magic Vol. 1, No. 11 August 1901
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Ross Conyears (1856-1901),Wizard of the Drawing-room, was Alexander Ross
Taking up magic in 1889, his first teacher was Ellis Stanyon. His favorite effect was the Linking Rings.
In 1901, he was prominent in the formation of a new society of magicians in London.
Ross died from pneumonia, after a few days illness.
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George Johnson (1887-1962) was a British writer, publisher and collector. He was editor of the Magic Wand from 1914 to 1945.
He published Sidney W. Clarke’s The Annals of Conjuring from the Earliest Times to the Present (1929) and The Bibliography of Conjuring and Kindred Deceptions (1920) with Adolphe Blind.
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Frederick Culpitt (May 9, 1877 – October 8, 1944), born Frederic Willis Culpitt at Camberwell, South London was a British performer and stage manager of the Egyptian Hall. He achieved stage success in the early part of the 20th century with a comedy magic act and is also notable as the first magician to appear on a regularly scheduled television show.
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George Johnson was the editor of “The Magic Wand”.
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George Johnson (1887-1962) was a British writer, publisher and collector. He was editor of the Magic Wand from 1914 to 1945.
He published Sidney W. Clarke’s The Annals of Conjuring from the Earliest Times to the Present (1929) and The Bibliography of Conjuring and Kindred Deceptions (1920) with Adolphe Blind.
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P. C. Sorcar (1913-1971) was the stage name of the Indian magician, Protul Chandra Sorcar.
Sorcar was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. He died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. His son fulfilled the rest of his contract.
See more about P.C. Sorcar on MagicPedia.
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P. C. Sorcar (1913-1971) was the stage name of the Indian magician, Protul Chandra Sorcar.
Sorcar was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. He died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. His son fulfilled the rest of his contract.
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British illusionist Rameses
Albert Marchinski, 1871-1930
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British illusionist, Rameses
Albert Marchinski, 1871-1930
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Harry Albacker
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