(Scotland: c1864 - 26th August 1929)
Aka "G.M. Ornum". Businessman in London. Amateur magician. Then semi-pro dealer (Ornum's [later Munro's] Magical Repository) in London 1889 until sold to Stanley Norton around 1918. Founding publisher of The Wizard 1905 and The Magic Wand 1910-14. Edited The Wizard 1908-09. Much bio material in Harry Leat's Forty Years In & Around Magic (1923).
Coauthors: George Johnson, George Armstrong, P. T. Selbit
This periodical ran for 5 volumes and 60 numbers, from September 1905 to August 1910. With volume 1 number 9, it became the official organ of the Magic Circle. For the last two numbers in 1910, P. T. Selbit handed the editorship to George Munro. It was succeeded by the Magic Wand.
For the last two numbers, George Munro took over the editorship from P. T. Selbit.
An attractive rapid sketching act suitable for any entertainment. Easily acquired by means of the guide to presentations, non-technical self-instructor. Includes 30 exclusive lightning, reversible, and plain line sketches. Accompanied with the appropriate and witty patter. Anyone can do it. Little practice required. No preparation necessary.
A lightning sketch lecture.
The presentation of this amusing "Lightning Sketching" act involves no particular skill. Very little practice is required to produce the drawings that illustrate the booklet.
This ebook can also function as an introduction to learning to draw, because it takes the reader from the most simple beginnings of drawing (dots and straight lines) all the way to rather impressive sketches which can be achieved literally with a few well placed strokes.
Old long-forgotten classics can be a real novelty for your audience. This is the case of the two very easy-to-do comical "sketches" or so-called chalk talks. Learning to draw the simple figures described in this hard-to-find manuscript, and you are always ready to entertain your audience.
From the introduction
The execution of the "sketches" included in the performance of these clever comical creations cannot fail to please the most exacting audience, the performer, be he or she ever so ignorant of the art of sketching, may produce them without much practice, and by their means, together...
Numbers 37-48
188 pages
Numbers 25-36
192 pages
Numbers 13-24
192 pages
Numbers 1-12
196 pages
Martin Breese purchased the copyright to the Magic Wand many years ago. He intended to issue material from the magazine in book form and was little to know, at the time, of the advent of digital publishing and ebooks.
The Magic Wand was first published in September 1910 and continued for 256 issues until December of 1957. It began as a monthly magazine and after a decade it was published quarterly. It was edited by George Munro who was succeeded by George Armstrong. It is rare and very hard to find a complete run. The most valuable issues are those containing the serial publication of The Annals of Conjuring. ...