Mulholland, John: The Early Magic Shows ©1945 John Mulholland, NY Softcover, saddle-stitched, 9x10", 18 pages

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Comments: An essay on magic performance through the years and how it evolved.

Contents (note original has no real divisions, original pages are not numbered):

i Preface (John Mulholland)

1 The Early Magic Shows
1 Street Performers
2 The Soap Box Performer
2 The Magician of the Chateau d'Eau
4 The Street of Conjurors
4 Development of Larger Tricks
5 Jugglers
6 The Magician's Dress
6 Moving to Wagons
8 Advancement of the Effects
8 The Cups and Balls
10 Breslaw and Breslaw's Last Legacy
12 The Magician's Assistant
12 Magic as Science
12 Advertising
14 Some Early Magician's Announcements
16 Magician Apparatus
16 Dove In the Bottle
17 Decapitation Illusion
18 Conclusion