- Also included: an 80-page PDF of Dai Vernon: Life and Work, a full-length book on the magic and life of Dai Vernon. 'Simply wonderful. There are few, if any, that could convey Vernon’s genius as well as Roberto Giobbi.' Michael Perovich. Contents of Dai Vernon Seminar.
- Aug 26, 2020 Dai Vernon: free download. Ebooks library. On-line books store on Z-Library B–OK. Download books for free. The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. Lewis Ganson. Language: english. File: PDF, 10.42 MB. The magician and the cardsharp: the search for America’s greatest sleight-of-hand artist.
Photograph of Dai Vernon fanning a deck of cards, using the pressure fan. | |
Born | June 11, 1894 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Died | August 21, 1992 (aged 98) |
Alma mater | Royal Military College of Canada |
Occupation | Magician |
Spouse(s) | Eugenie 'Jeanne' Hayes (1924-1992) |
Children | Theodore, Derek |
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Dai Vernon (pronounced alternatively as 'DIE' or as 'DAY' as in David[1]) (June 11, 1894 – August 21, 1992), a.k.a. The Professor, was a Canadian magician.[2] His expert sleight of hand technique and extensive knowledge, particularly with card tricks and close-up magic, garnered him respect among fellow magicians. His influence was considerable in the magic world of the 20th Century, and he was a mentor to numerous famous magicians. He lived out his last years at the Magic Castle, a nightclub in Hollywood, California.
Biography[edit]
Vernon was born in Ottawa as David Frederick Wingfield Verner. While performing, he often mentioned that he had learned his first trick from his father at age seven, adding wryly that he had 'wasted the first 6 years' of his life. His father was a government worker and an amateur magician. Vernon studied mechanical engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, but by World War I he had moved to New York City.[2]
Vernon first fell in love with magic when he was seven years old after his father took him to see a magic show. The first real magic book he ever owned was an early edition of perhaps the most famous card book of them all, The Expert at the Card Table, by S. W. Erdnase.[3] By the time he was 13 he had memorized the contents of the book. He also had a famous encounter with another up-and-coming young magician from his town, Cliff Green, who asked Vernon, 'What kind of magic do you do?' Vernon responded by asking the boy to name a card. Upon pulling a pack of cards from his pocket, Vernon turned over the top card of the deck to reveal the named card and replied to the speechless Green 'That's the kind of magic I do. What kind of magic do you do?'
As a young man, Vernon moved to New York where, in the back room of Clyde Powers' magic shop, he found favor among many of the great magicians of the era, including Dr. James William Elliott, Nate Leipzig, and Harry Kellar.
He began to use the first name 'Dai' after a newspaper used the name in place of 'David'; the paper actually was using the Welsh nickname for David. When Verner first moved to the United States, the male member of a popular ice-skating pair had the surname Vernon; Americans continually mistook Verner's last name to be the same as the popular ice skater, and eventually the magician became fed up with correcting people and simply adopted 'Vernon' as well.
Owing to his extraordinary knowledge of, and skill at, sleight of hand, Vernon has long been affectionately known as The Professor. Harry Houdini (who in his early years billed himself as 'The King of Kards') often boasted that if he saw a card trick performed three times in a row he would be able to figure it out. Vernon then showed Houdini a trick where he removed the top card of the deck and placed it second from the top, then turned over the top card to again reveal the original card. Houdini watched Vernon do the trick seven times (some versions of the story say five times), each time insisting that Vernon 'do it again.' Finally, Houdini's wife and Vernon's friends said, 'Face it, Houdini, you're fooled.' For years afterward, Vernon used the title The Man Who Fooled Houdini in his advertisements.
Though respected by professional magicians nationwide due in part to publicity via the magazine The Sphinx, Vernon was essentially a gifted amateur until his 40s. Before the Magic Castle, Vernon never held a steady full-time job for more than a few months. He occasionally performed magic at nightclubs or on cruise ships to South America and back, and also toured the Philippines as an entertainer during WW2 with the United Service Organizations. His engineering degree was put to use as a sometime blueprint reader. However, Vernon's main source of income was cutting custom silhouette portraits, a talent that paid 25 to 50 cents per silhouette for about two minutes work during the 1920s and '30s.[4] A few hours a week cutting silhouettes was generally enough to support his family and finance his sleight of hand hobby (compare his silhouette fee with the first US minimum wage of 25 cents per hour in 1938). Vernon spent most of his early life traveling all over the United States of America looking for card cheats, and anyone who might know anything about sleight-of-hand with cards. He was famously under-credited for much of the work published in Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue's Expert Card Technique,[5] though a later edition included an extra chapter which acknowledges Vernon's contributions. In fact, a huge portion of the sleight-of-hand had been discovered by Vernon over years of searching.
Among magicians, he is credited with inventing or improving many standard close-up effects with cards, coins, and other small items. Recolored 1 1 0 keygen for mac. The 'standard' Cups and balls routine is his, and his 6-ring 'Symphony of the Rings' remains one of the most popular Chinese linking rings routines in use to this day.
Vernon spent the last thirty years of his life as Magician-in-Residence and star attraction at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles, California. There he mentored numerous well-known magicians including Ricky Jay, Persi Diaconis, Doug Henning, Larry Jennings, Bruce Cervon, Michael Ammar, John Carney and Richard Turner.
Family[edit]
In 1924, Vernon married Eugenie 'Jeanne' Hayes, a diminutive magician's assistant. They would have two sons, Theodore and Derek. Jeanne eventually tired of Dai's wanderlust, spendthrift money habits, and obsession with card tricks, and the couple lived separately by the 1950s, though they never formally divorced.
Death[edit]
Dai Vernon died on August 21, 1992, in Ramona, County of San Diego, California.[2] His body was cremated and the ashes were interred on a shelf, with magic memorabilia at the Magic Castle.[6] The Findagrave website states that his cremains were returned to his family after the Magic Castle was renovated.
Books[edit]
- Dai Vernon's Book of Magic
- Inner Secrets of Card Magic
- More Inner Secrets of Card Magic
- Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic
- Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic
- Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig
- Malini & His Magic
- The Essential Dai Vernon (Collected Work)
- The Symphony of the Rings
- Early Vernon
- Dai Vernon's Revelations
- Vernon Touch
Legacy[edit]
In November 2005, Karl Johnson wrote The Magician And The Cardsharp[7] about Vernon's early days of tracking down a specific yet unknown cardsharp, who developed an undetectable false deal.
In June 2006, the first in-depth biography of Vernon was released by Squash Publishing entitled Dai Vernon: A Biography, *Artist * Magician * Muse (Vol. 1: 1894-1941)[8] (first of planned two volumes) written by Canadian magician David Ben.
A 1999 documentary was released entitled Dai Vernon: The Spirit Of Magic.[9] Build your own hydraulic forging press pdf online.
Dai Vernon in film[edit]
The character of 'The Professor' (played by Hal Holbrook) from the movie Shade was based on Dai Vernon, and the character Vernon (Stuart Townsend) was named after him.
References[edit]
- ^When asked which way to pronounce his first name, Vernon would say 'either, or either,' (i.e, EE-ther or EYE-ther) Vernon, Dai. The Vernon Touch: The Writings of Dai Vernon in Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine from 1968 to 1990. Washington, DC: The Genii Corporation, 2006.
- ^ abcDaniels, Lee A. (August 29, 1992). 'Dai Vernon, 98; An Expert Magician Who Taught Others'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
Dai Vernon, a sleight of hand artist who was a mentor to many of the most accomplished magicians of the last half-century, died Aug. 21 at the home of a son, Edward Wingfield Verner, in Ramona, Calif., where he had lived for the last two years. He was 98 years old.
- ^Erdnase, S. W (1995). The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation (1st Ed. reprint ed.). Mineola, NY da: Dover Publications. p. 144 pages. ISBN978-0-486-28597-9.
- ^Johnson, 2005
- ^Hugard, Jean; Braue, Frederick (1974). Expert Card Technique: Close-Up Table Magic (1st Ed. reprint ed.). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. p. 448 pages. ISBN978-0-486-21755-0.
- ^Johnson, Karl (2005). The Magician and the Cardsharp. p. (p. 282).
He was cremated and after the box with his ashes was brought to the Magic Castle, it was placed for display on a ledge at the top of a wall filled with photos and other memorabilia from his long life in magic. The ledge was so high that the box was almost out of sight.He was a founding member of SBM ring 363 in Cork, Ireland.
- ^Johnson, Karl (2005). The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist (Adapted ed.). New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 368 pages. ISBN978-0-8050-7406-2.
- ^Ben, David (2006). Dai Vernon: A Biography--Artist - Magician - Muse (Vol. 1: 1894-1941). Chicago, Illinois: Squash Publishing. p. 366 pages. ISBN978-0-9744681-5-0.
- ^Toronto: History Television - The Canadians
External links[edit]
- A Magician's Quest for the Perfect Card Cheat, NPRMorning Edition, August 18, 2006
- Dai Vernon 3 card monte on YouTube
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dai_Vernon&oldid=971253488'
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mormonyoyoman Inner circle I dug 5,000 postholes, but I have only 2439 Posts | 0 http://www.lybrary.com ---Go get it! *jeep! --Gran'pa Chet | |||||||||
mikejorden Loyal user 222 Posts | 0 Why??? for $10 more you can buy the REAL book. One of the best books of magic ever produced. Isn't there an ethics issue here. L & L currently publish the book and presumably they acquired the rights. Regardless, my experience (and others) is that you don't properly read large e-books like Tarbell, Hofmann, Jinx etc. Anyone seriously into magic should have this book on their shelf not in some seldom looked at computer file. | |||||||||
shomemagic Inner circle Missouri 2215 Posts | 0 If Chris is putting this out.I'm sure he went through the right channels to do this ethically correct. | |||||||||
Chris Inner circle lybrary.com 1114 Posts | 0 I purchased the world-wide exclusive electronic rights to this book. I have as much right to publish this ebook as L&L has the right to reprint it. Yes, I agree this is probably the single best book on close-up magic. That is why I purchased the rights for a significant amount of money. Time will tell if I made a wise investment. There are two main reasons I made this investment. One, it is Lybrary.com's mission to provide the best possible contents available, and second Dai Vernon has meant so much for my own development in magic that I wanted to pay tribute to him by preserving his material for eternity in digital form. Here is the direct link to The Dai Vernon Book of Magic, written by Lewis Ganson and originally published by Harry Stanley: http://www.lybrary.com/vernon-book-magic-p-304.html | |||||||||
Cameron Francis V.I.P. 6991 Posts | 0 What makes the electronic version any less of a real book? The words are the same. It is simply presented in a different format. And what is properly reading a book? I doubt anyone reads a magic book the same way, hard bound or not: some skip around, some read cover to cover. I've done both. I personally plan on purchasing the ebook for lybrary.com. Chris has provided the magic community with an incredible resource. A lot of books on his site are hard to find in hard copy form. I think Chris deserves a lot of respect for his ambitious endeavor. NUMBERED - A killer predicted card at any number out now! http://cameronfrancismagic.com/numbered.html | |||||||||
atucci Veteran user Middleburg, Florida 380 Posts | 0 Mr. Jorden, As you now know, lybrary.com has the electronic rights to the book. No ethics issues at all. You mention for an additional $10 USD, one could obtain the ‘real’ book. They are both ‘real’, just delivered to the reader via different types of media. I believe you when you say that you (and perhaps others) are unable to ‘properly’ read large ebooks. However, demographics are changing and there is a growing audience receptive to learning ‘online’. As with anything, there isn’t a one-size fits all answer here. Online learning may not be the best choice in many circumstances, however in some situations it’s just as viable as learning from a hardcopy source, quicker to obtain, less expensive and often a better choice ecologically. Your final statement about computer files that are seldom looked at, again may apply to some, but I bet we all would be surprised to discover how many download and use their ebooks on a regular basis. Also, having been hit by three hurricanes in the last 18 months, I feel better knowing that some of my magic literature is safely stored on a CD and only the most devastating of natural disasters would destroy that information. That being said, I treasure my copy of Strange Ceremonies as it’s signed by Eugene Burger and sits proudly on my shelf. Regards, Tony Tuccillo Sebastian, Florida | |||||||||
Cameron Francis V.I.P. 6991 Posts | 0 NUMBERED - A killer predicted card at any number out now! http://cameronfrancismagic.com/numbered.html | |||||||||
mikejorden Loyal user 222 Posts | 0 Wow - that started some juices flowing. Each to his own. Perhaps we will see all the old Harry Stanley publication put out as e-books - Tribute to Leipzig, Malini & His Magic, Magic of Slydini etc. and just for the record Tony I treasure my first edition of the Vernon Book signed by the Professor. You can't get personally signed e-books! | |||||||||
Chris Inner circle lybrary.com 1114 Posts | 0 Quote: Perhaps we will see all the old Harry Stanley publication put out as e-books - Tribute to Leipzig, Malini & His Magic, Magic of Slydini etc. 'Magic of Slydini' will come soon. I am still looking for a good Harry Stanley edition to do the conversion from. If anybody has one for sale, let me know. The other Harry Stanley publications are in the realm of possibilities, but it will largely depend on how successful the Vernon and Slydini ebooks are. Therefore, if you want to see more of these kinds of ebooks, then please support my digitization efforts, purchase the Vernon and later the Slydini ebooks and spread the word to your friends and colleagues. Wouldn't it be great to have all these wonderful classics available as searchable and affordable ebooks? Somebody mentioned before 'the ebook is JUST $10 cheaper' (my emphasis). For some $10 is a huge difference. $10 can pay for another trick or booklet. And taken over say the complete Harry Stanley set of books we are talking hundreds of dollars savings. Anyway, a big thank you to all the ones who understand what I am trying to do and who show their support in many different ways and on many different levels. In the end I do this for magic and for the preservation of magic knowledge. | |||||||||
mormonyoyoman Inner circle I dug 5,000 postholes, but I have only 2439 Posts | 0 Quote: On 2006-03-02 12:08, Chris wrote: That person did not finsih the sentence, Chris. What I think he meant to say was 'the e-book is JUST $20 cheaper -- and searchable, AND downloadable to my PDA.' *jeep! --Gran'pa Chet (Who loves taking 200+ books on the road with him.) | |||||||||
Reuben Dunn Inner circle Has a purple ribbon wraped around my 1592 Posts | 0 [quote]On 2006-03-02 12:08, Chris wrote: Quote:
Any prospect of putting the books out in Adobe PDF format? It's been a while since I've bought anything from you, but at the time the format was non pdf. Have you change this? | |||||||||
DoctorCognos Elite user 413 Posts | 0 If you have any text in electronic format that is printable, then you can convert it to PDF by 'printing it' using a free PDF tool called pdf Creator available from http://pdfcreator.sourceforge.net if you have a MS Windows operating system, I have run it on Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The Doctor | |||||||||
Chris Inner circle lybrary.com 1114 Posts | 0 Quote: Any prospect of putting the books out in Adobe PDF format? Yes, anybody who has followed Lybrary.com's releases over the last months probably realised that we released mainly PDFs. We are supporting both, HTML and PDF, but the focus is shifting towards PDF. The recent versions of Acrobat have become better and many of the features I built into my HTML ebooks which were originally not in Adobe have made it finally into Adobe (for example searching many ebooks with one swoop; text-to-speech and others). We are also working on converting our HTML ebooks to PDFs, but this kind of conversion work is pretty low priority and so it will take a while until we have every ebook available as PDF. Nevertheless you will find already many PDFs at Lybrary.com. Best, Chris.. | |||||||||
Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts | 0 Chris' company is making available hard to find to impossible to find book with great production levels and the ability to search etc., we are not talking just scanning and selling here. I reccomend his services w/out reservation. Steve V | |||||||||
atucci Veteran user Middleburg, Florida 380 Posts | 0 Yeah but you can't get 'personally signed ebooks!'.... | |||||||||
Chris Inner circle lybrary.com 1114 Posts | 0 Quote: On 2006-03-06 04:47, atucci wrote: That is true, but soon you will be getting at Lybrary.com a lot more than the ebook. I am working on two new features which will differentiate ebooks even more from books. I am so excited about these new features/services that it is hard for me to hold back. But since I am in the middle of development I don't want to spill the beans prematurely. I anticipate that these new features will push many over the hump to at least try out ebooks, if not embrace them. So, yes, a signature is cool, but besides collector value and a great memento it doesn't offer much. What I am planning will actually give you more information and help you get more out of the ebook, become a better magician. Stay tuned.. | |||||||||
Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts | 0 Atuci has an excellent point. If someone was to get the Vernon book right now he could go get it signed by Dai Vernon and that would be way cool. Steve V | |||||||||
Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4452 Posts | 0 Steve- YOU try to get that cigar out of his hand. No thanks! We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear. | |||||||||
atucci Veteran user Middleburg, Florida 380 Posts | 0 Hey guys, I was being facetious (in deference to my friend mikejorden). As you can read, he's very proud of his signed, first edition book although I'm not sure if that'll make him a better magician(facetious again). Chris - can't wait to 'hear' about your new features! | |||||||||
Chris Inner circle lybrary.com 1114 Posts | 0 Quote: Chris - can't wait to 'hear' about your new features! I described details in my newsletter today. The whole system is in beta version. I will provide more information later once the first beta test is over. For now this is exclusive to newsletter subscribers. | |||||||||
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