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'''Rudy Roxo''' was a semi-professional magician who did a comedy act with small effects and illusions.  
 
'''Rudy Roxo''' was a semi-professional magician who did a comedy act with small effects and illusions.  
  
Roxo began working as a professional conjurer in 1930.<ref>Cover, Genii February 1950</ref>
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Roxo began working as a professional conjurer in 1930.<ref>Cover, [[Genii 1950 February]]</ref>
  
 
He worked briefly with [[Floyd Thayer]] then bought the company from [[Bill Larsen]] in 1950. He ran the Thayer plant from Traverse City Michigan.
 
He worked briefly with [[Floyd Thayer]] then bought the company from [[Bill Larsen]] in 1950. He ran the Thayer plant from Traverse City Michigan.

Revision as of 18:21, 27 July 2010

Rudy Roxo
BornClayton Lowell Jacobsen
May 24, 1913
Chicago, Illinois
1970s

Rudy Roxo was a semi-professional magician who did a comedy act with small effects and illusions.

Roxo began working as a professional conjurer in 1930.[1]

He worked briefly with Floyd Thayer then bought the company from Bill Larsen in 1950. He ran the Thayer plant from Traverse City Michigan.

He was a staff writer to The Seven Circles and The Diebox. [2]

His Vampire illusion he called "Creation" was in Genii magazine (February 1940)

Awards

  • Conjurors' Magazine Award (1945)

Books

  • Modern Masters Magic (with Edwin L. Burchell)

References

  1. Cover, Genii 1950 February
  2. Tricks That Mystify by Will Goldston (1934)