Howard Thurston

People love to worship that.

Howard Thurston III.

That's funny.

Frederick Leathers.

So, You could have him as a GMC in your game, or even you could play him as a character who presumably will meet Cthulhu and change his tune slightly.

Other vaudeville magicians included Howard Thurston, someone whose name still kind of resonates today.

The triple active... Cervé Leroy, who did big illusions like levitation.

His wife, Thelma, that was her stage name.

Incident is in connection with Clarence Darrow, the nationally famous criminal lawyer.

In 1932, Clarence Darrow and Howard Thurston, the great late magician, agreed with Claude Noble.

Rest of them I've heard of all my life.

I don't know Claude Noble.

Nice.

It covers history really well from Keller to Thurston to Dante to Lee Grable to you.

Yeah.

So back in the day, you know, in the 1800s, the number one magician in America was Alexander Herman.

But when Alexander Herman died in 1896, that left Keller, the undisputed master magician in America.

And he toured and performed up until his retirement in 1908.

And then shortly before his retirement, of course, he found his successor, which was a young magician named Howard Thurston.

And from what I understand, they had a business arrangement.

Oh, no question.

I mean, one of his rivals at the time was a man named Howard Thurston.

Well, Howard Thurston at the time was equivalent to a David Copperfield.

He was the illusionist and he played big theaters and he had a huge show of illusions, you know, floating a lady in the air, sawing in half, all that stuff.

And so Thurston was very, very popular.

I've got to, I've got to do that.

But Thurston, you mentioned his name.

Even if you say Thurston today, they might say, is that that guy from Gilligan's Island? But, you know, they have no concept of who Howard Thurston was or, sadly enough, Harry Blackstone or any of those guys.