Magical folk have their grief like normal people. Bob Gysel’s father passed away on July 14th in Toledo, Ohio. He was the oldest druggist in the state of Ohio, and much of Bob’s unique knowledge came from their close association. His recent letters mirror the loss and my sympathy is extended wholeheartedly.
On the 10th of this month, the mother of U.F. Grant died in Pittsfield, Mass. at the age of 79. There were quite a number of the territorial magicians to the funeral, among them being Gordon Peck of Glen Falls, N.Y., Paul Noffke, Delaporte, George Ellsworth, Mr and Mrs Don McKeen, Walter and Mary Schwartz, and Bassett Mordecai. “Gen” is all alone now, and I can well appreciate that empty feeling.
Syracuse, N.Y., has a new magical club in the near offing to be called ‘The Black Cats’. The question now before the house is “What magical publication will be designated as the official organ?”
Harry Blackstone is exposing weekly in the Sunday Buffalo (N.Y.) Courrier-Express. The bottle levitation is one effect and the photographs are very beautifully and thoroughly made although Harry should have had his hair combed. It is needless to remark that he does not expose any of his own program tricks. Exposers never do. The Jinx Summer 1936 Extra gives the first practical method of telling what does and what does not constitute an exposure. It could be well adopted by every sincere magical society.
Tom Worthington, of Baltimore, Md., has a 25 year collection of personal letters from Howard Thurston, his second, third and fourth wives, Jane and John Northern Hilliard. They are being bound into permanent book form. It’s my idea of a rare item.
NOTICE OF IMPORTANCE (to some). If you keep a file of The Jinx, keep watch of your page numbers as you file them to be certain you have all sheets. A number have written in that single pages were missing from their copies. By the page numbers ye shall know. Take heed, please.
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