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Bruce Posgate

Bruce Posgate

(Sunderland, Durham, England: 7th December 1901 - 13th November 1990)

Inspired by seeing a magician at age 7. Learned since age 14 from library books. Sales correspondent (later direct mail manager). Semi-pro kid-show magician since debuting in London in 1924. Aka "Uncle Bruce" since 1924. Moved to Canada in 1947. 1975 Louis Bertol Trophy. IBM President 1980-81.

Wrote Magic in Miniature (1950s), Kid Show Showmanship (1961, 52pp; 3 reprints), Dove Pan-O-Rama (1972, 48pp), Table Hopping (1974, 54pp), Art of Blowing Bubbles (1980, 14pp), Necklace Trickery (1982, 64pp). "Forum" columnist in New Tops 1961-89. Articles in Magic Circular, Abra, Linking Ring, Ibidem, etc. NOTE: Surname often misspelled "Postgate", to his distinct annoyance.

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Bruce Posgate
Dove Pan-Orama by Bruce Posgate

A comprehensive survey of amusing ideas and ways to use a dove pan in an entertaining manner.

Excerpt from the Foreword by Sid Lorraine:

In this assembly of D. P. uses, Bruce Posgate has discovered how it can be effectively used in a variety of ways. I am sure the reader will wonder why he never thought of these things himself and how he could have been so stupid as to consider it a one-trick prop—strictly for the birds.

Coins, cards, beads, colored liquids, clocks, cigarettes, balloons and even mathematical magic may seem too wide a range of lid-loading stuff to please some, but I am sure the...

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Kid Show Showmanship by Bruce Posgate

This ebook provides an entirely different approach to entertaining children. Original material and suggestions - "bread and butter" information by an experienced performer. This volume explains the psychology and know-how of working children's shows.

The following is an excerpt from the book:

Entertaining children is a profitable business. Depressions may come and go; movies, television and other diversions can come and go ... but children are in constant supply. One generation after another as your potential audience.

Only an experienced performer could write a book of this kind. No...

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