BREAKING INTO THE VAUDEVILLE GAME by David J. Lustig (Knowledge and Inside Dope Which Will Aid the Amateur To Become a Vaudeville Artiste.) I have received numerous letters from people in all walks of life asking me how one goes about it when they wish to adopt the vaudeville stage as a means of livelihood.Continue reading “Want a Tip? Stay Out of Show Business.”
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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 Entertainment!
From Miscellaneous Handkerchief Tricks That You Can Do : Including a fifteen minute act “The Silky Slicker” by George De Lawrence, published by Gerald Heaney, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1921. Pages 32-33. You absolutely cannot succeed in these modern days of “jazz” and “goloshes” by merely being a magician; you must be an entertainer; therefore I haveContinue reading “That’s Entertainment!”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 