Granite State Magicians & Mystery Entertainers The Granite State Magicians & Mystery Entertainers are members of the Society of American Magicians, Assembly 118, and the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Ring 166, who have banned together to improve the art of magic and mystery entertaining for New Hampshire residents. They perform at charitable and civic events,Continue reading “Magic Show in Littleton, NH”
Category Archives: vaudeville
A Complete Silk Act
One of the perennial topics in these parts goes something like this: “I’ve signed up for a talent show. What should I do?” Let me make a suggestion, under the rubric “everything old is new again.” In Jean Hugard’s Silken Sorcery (1937), the last chapter describes the Stillwell Silk Act. Here’s what Hugard says: CHAPTER XII THEContinue reading “A Complete Silk Act”
That’s Comedy!
Right then. Not every entertainment in Shakespeare’s England was, how shall we say this? high-brow. To that end, let me present to you Singing Simpkin, a jig (that is to say, a short comedy — all singing, all dancing) that might have been presented between acts in a theater, or in a tavern yard. OrContinue reading “That’s Comedy!”
A Complete Silk Act
One of the perennial topics in these parts goes something like this: “I’ve signed up for a talent show. What should I do?” Let me make a suggestion, under the rubric “everything old is new again.” In Jean Hugard’s Silken Sorcery (1937), the last chapter describes the Stillwell Silk Act. Here’s what Hugard says: CHAPTER XII THEContinue reading “A Complete Silk Act”
Vaudeville Again!
I’ll be doing my vaudeville thing at Newport, NH a week from Saturday, at 7:00 pm. My turn is a recreation of a vaudeville magic act as might have been seen back in 1921, using the same patter, the same tricks, done by the same methods, as they were a century ago. The place isContinue reading “Vaudeville Again!”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 