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Louis Christianer
Louis Christianer | |
Born | ? |
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Died | 1929 |
Categories | Books by Louis Christianer |
Louis F. Christianer (? - 1929) was co-owner with Floyd Thayer of the Thayer & Christianer Magic Shop (later to become Thayer Magic Company .
He was taken in as a partner by Thayer and the arrangement prospered until "Chris" went went off to war in 1917.[1] While with Thayer he was editor of the Magical Bulletin.
Christianer gave the first description of a Sandwich trick in The Magic Wand, Vol. 7, No. 77, january 1917.
By 1917, Christianer had been engaged in the specialization of magic for the 17 years. He played [[vaudeville], but his favorite line of work was society entertaining. [2] It was reported that he died a young age after a long illness [3] [4]
Books
- Effective Tricks (1915)
- Cigarette Tricks (1916)
- Effective Card Tricks (1916)
- More Effective Tricks (1916)
- String Tricks (1916)
- An Effective Coin Act (1917)
- Magical Notions (1917)
- Modern Magical Effects (1917)
- The Art of Ventriloquism (1918)
- More Effective Card Tricks (1919)
- New Magical Conceptions (1919)
- Original Deceptions (1919)
- Selected Tricks (1923)
- The Shell Coin Revised (1923)
- Cigarette Manipulation (1924)
- Thimble Manipulation (1924)
- What You Can Do with a Paper Napkin (1924)
References
- ↑ Floyd and Jennie Thayer, Genii 1942 September
- ↑ Magical Bulletin, Vol. 05, March 1917 (cover)
- ↑ Linking Ring, November 1929
- ↑ Magic Wand, Vol. 18, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1929, page 155