Magic acts chautauqua (1 resultados)

Seven pieces. 1st - Folio. 11 x 14 in. Photo-illustrated broadside printed on thick card stock (minor soiling, very small and slight oil stain at upper fore-edge), still VG; 2nd -- 8vo. 4 x 8 in. Four pieces printed on colour-tinted newsprint stock, 1 w/ additional stamping (minor toning, edgewear); 3rd. - 16mo. 2.5 x 3.5 in. Photo-illust. on playing card, by T.L. DeLand design on verso, rounded corners, NF; 4to. 2 x 4 in. photo-printed business card, w/ lettering & address on recto, illustration on verso, NF. Fascinating small collection of exceedingly scarce promotional advertising for the Kokomo, IN illusionist and magician, Lylburn Johnson (b. 1904). He performed with the Chautauqua Circuit between 1925 and 1929, and later on the vaudeville circuit throughout the Midwest and West, for private clubs, fundraisers, vaudeville, theaters, and more. His act illustrated as illustrated on these pieces incorporated his double death defying feat of begin handcuffed and locked in a barrel full of water, escaping from ropes tied to a chair, as well as the Mysterious Mail Bag Escape in which he had been locked. In addition, he would drive a car blindfolded, perform illusions such as the floating woman, floating ball and skull, the burning cone of water, and perform mind reading and spiritualist portions as well. One of the playbills specifically cites performing at the Legion Club House for a P.T.A. Benefit in Lewiston, ID Friday, Nov. 10, [1933]. Johnson was the only child of the noted Kokomo, IN physician, Dr. Oliver Johnson (1878-1927), and although continuing to list the family home as his place of residence and business on the advertising cards included here, appears in no street directories, trade directories, or census records after 1910. No copies in Worldcat; See: Lylburn B. Johnson, The Great Johnson with His Mysteries, Brochures and Promotional Materials, Redpath Chautauqua Collection, Univ. of Iowa Special Collections, No. MSC0150. …