Help us get to over 8,767 articles in 2025.
If you know of a magician not listed in MagicPedia, start a New Biography for them. Contact us at magicpediahelp@gmail.com
Barney Ives
Barney Ives Template:PersonInfo was the stage name of Walter G. Barney [1], a card manipulator and partner of Dr. James William Elliott.
Ives formed a partnership with Dr. Elliott in 1908, touring as "Elliot and Ives".[2] In 1910, they toured vaudeville, never making the "big time". Reports in the Sphinx show them playing such places as Scenic Theatre in Hartford, Rockaway, Slatington, Pennsylvania, and Nemo Theatre in Harlem New York.
In July of 1910, their show was destroyed by fire on a steamer traveling from Poughkeepsie to New York. Elliott lost all paraphernalia including livestock. They regrouped and were back on the road by September of the same year.[3]
By 1913, it was reported that Ives was out of the magic business and running a restaurant in Harlem. [4]
According to Dai Vernon Ives was anxious to take on Dr. Elliott with his infamous challange but could not come up with the $10,000. [5]
References
- ↑ Annals of Conjuring
- ↑ Sphinx June 1908
- ↑ Genii 1959 February
- ↑ Sphinx January, 1913
- ↑ Vernon Touch column for Genii 1982 March