Lives of the Conjurers Volume Two

Biographies of magicians, mentalists, illusionists, prestidigitators, and fraudulent mediums of the past

* CARDINI He seemed bewildered by his own magic

* BLACKSTONE "The Last of the Great Magicians"

* LEON MANDRAKE He wore a turban or a top hat -depending on the gig

* DUNNINGER Was it true that the renowned mindreader couldn't read the mind of a gnat?

* DAVENPORT BROTHERS Their spirit cabinet brought them fame. But were they mediums or magicians?

* PROFESSOR NEUMAN He had MISread a mind-
and the police hauled him away

* THE GREAT LESTER Did he have the exclusive rights to that name?

* GEORGE MELIES A magician who transformed himself into a filmmaker

* CHARLIER No one knew where he came from-or where he finally went

* MAX MALINI He learned his trade as a youth, in a bar on the Bowery

* MYRUS THE MENTALIST An ordinary fellow with extraordinary powers?

* JOHN CALVERT At the age of a hundred he was still performing

* DE SARAK Was he a Tibetan adept, with psychic powers, or an egregious fraud?

* THE BANANA MAN From the pockets of his coat he pulled hundreds of bananas

* PROFESSOR SOLOMON As promised, he produced an elephant (or at least its trunk)

* DANTINI THE MAGNIFICENT Magician-in-residence at a Baltimore bar

Illustrated.