Vernon Chronicles Volume 4 - eBook DOWNLOAD

Anecdotal biography which follows Dai Vernon from his birth to his arrival in Hollywood in 1963 to his becoming Resident magician at the world famous Magic Castle. You will feel as if you are sitting with Dai at the Magic Castle while he shares the stories and experiences of his lifetime. Don't miss this revealing history that can make you a better magician and a better performer. The story of the greatest natural magician the world has ever seen - Dai Vernon - with 67 historical photographs and 326 fascinating pages. Written by Keith Burns and Bruce Cervon

Contents:

Foreword by Richard Buffum

Introduction

Magic's Past and Future

My First Hundred Years

PART ONE 1896 - 1916

I Try to Fly and Other Early Memories

My Father's Principles for Life

My Father and My First Magic Tricks

My First Playing Cards

Learning about Silhouettes

My First Magician

Going Backstage

Some Thoughts on Thurston

My First Trip to the Pawn Shop

Mother and Magic

The Carnegie Library in Ottawa

Magic Books

My Attack on Magic

Practice

Know the Terms

You Should be an Engineer

Cliff Green

New York and Coney Island

Carny Games

Carnival Talk

Larry Grey, the Dizzy Wizard

My Brother Napier and the Army

PART TWO 1917 - 1939

New York 1917

New York's Magic Shops

Powers' Magic Shop

Harry Kellar and Thurston

The Short Card

Doc Elliott, He Played with a Full Deck

The Inner Circle

"Just Think of a Card ... "

"The Tricks of the Greeks"

Gamblers

The Three Card Monte

The Masked Man. One of My Heroes

Hofzinser. Another of My Heroes

On Using Trick Cards

Jeanne Comes into My Life

Women in Magic

Nate Leipzig

My First Professional Engagement

The Union League Club

Cardini

Doc Tarbell

Jud Cole

Horace Goldin and the Unusual Cane

Alfred Benzone. "Originator of Ectoplasm"

The Man Who Fooled Vernon

Malini's Misdirection

Malini. Still Another Hero

Malini and the Queen

On Meeting Thomas Edison

Silhouettes and Agents

Mr . Houdini and Madame Houdin

More Memories of Harry Houdini

Houdini and Spiritualism

Ted "Male" Vernon

Cuba

Sawing a Woman in Half in Cuba

My Black Magic in Cuba

Sam Margules and Dickie the Dunce

Mentalists

Touring America

Jarrow and Van Hoven

Dai Yen or Dr Chung

Fred Keating

Mr. Shock and the Rubber Bands

Dad Stevens - "The Mysterious Kid"

The Fabulous Center Deal

Charlie Miller. "I'm a Dice Man"

My Life as Edward Brown

J. Warren Keane

William J. Hilliar

Harry Blackstone

Vernon in Print

Jean Hugard

The Wonderful Faro Box

Paul Fox and FDR

Neepie

The Cigarette Trick

Frank Tobey's Gambling Furniture

Garnet Lee. the Chinaman's Toy

Secrets

Australian Slang

Effects Defined

Entertaining the Rich

The Linking Rings

My Brother Napier Dies

PART THREE 1939 - 1963

My Harlequin Act

Doves Steal the Show at the Rainbow Room

Compeer. the Monkey

How I Became "The Professor"

Fu Manchu

The Mind-Reading Box

On the Same Bill with Charlie Chaplin

Dante

Sam Horowitz Becomes Me!

From Blueprints to Broken Arms

Citizenship

Shade

With the USO in World War II

Dan Cummings

Milbourne Christopher and the Cuban Lottery

Annemann's Bullet Catch

Annemann's Suicide

Roy Benson

On Being Natural

Cruising

A Couple of Funny Moments

The Old Vaudeville Formula

Old Cards...New Cards

Authority

The Father of the Modern Lecture Series

Great Tricks

Simple Ideas Drive People Crazy

"A Pocket Trick"

How to be Effective

Classics

An Original Thought

Art in the Craft

Traveling Magicians

Through the Looking-Glass

The Pass

On Performing

What's Wrong with Magic

My Family

Afterword

INDEX

PHOTO CREDITS