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Tommy Windsor

Tommy Windsor

(Marietta, Ohio: 5th July 1906 - 2nd September 1978)

Stage name of Thomas Isaac Lowry. Learned assisting MacDonald Birch. Commercial artist. Since 1924 semi-pro comedy magician, vent, and magic dealer in his home town. Invented Dye Box in 1946. Daily local Virginia 1/2-hour TV show Nov 1953-Jul 1954.

Wrote Magician's Merchandising Manual (1938, 42pp), Jackpot (1947, 4 issues as house organ), Tommy Windsor's Die Box Book (1947, 42pp), 64 Ways to Make Magic Pay (1952, 24pp), Suitcase Side Show (1962, 19pp), Tommy Windsor's Clip Art (1972), etc. Co-edited (with George McAthy) The Dope Sheet 1945-48. Column in Magic is Fun. Tricks in Dope Sheet and New Phoenix.

Coauthors: Edwin Hooper, Ulysses Frederick Grant, Joseph White

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Edwin Hooper & Tommy Windsor
Collected Cartoon Stunts by Edwin Hooper & Tommy Windsor

An easy to do show that you can also perform online and via video-conference. Hints, tips, ideas, novelties, patter, presentation and surprises enabling you to easily present ... a complete lightning cartoon act.

Here is great material, the cream of material collected from several out-of-print publications - over thirty Cartoon stunts plus "How Stage Cartoonists draw their pay" by Tommy Windsor an article that is packed with valuable information and ideas to help you become a Lightning Cartoonist. A feature act for any program. A welcome break in an all-magic show. Skill in drawing is not...

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Presto Press Book by Tommy Windsor

The smart magician's guide to advertising and promotion, with over a hundred ways to advertise and get more dates. Learn insider secrets of advertising your act at a price that won't break the bank. Includes copy for advertising pieces, folders, and sales brochures, as well as suggested slogans for advertising giveaways.

One of the best pieces in the ebook is a treatise on how much to charge for your act. Undercharge and you've left money on the table, while overcharging can cost you the job. This is an ebook you won't be able to put down till you've digested every word. And you'd better...

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Supermarket Magic by Tommy Windsor

Make money performing at stores, malls and shopping centers with a one-man magic show.

If you are of average ability, this book reveals Tommy Windsor's exact plan for booking and performing a short, 15 to 25-minute magic act at stores in your area. The book tells you everything . . . how to book . . . how much to charge . . . how to play . . . sales gimmicks . . . the contract . . . and even reproduces all the ads and publicity the store can use. There are no ads for you to sell. With this, and one suitcase of magic, you can make $850+ per day, right near home, and still hold your regular...

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Street Faker Act by Tommy Windsor

Here's a great change of pace routine for the magician -- an act that parodies the medicine pitchman. Audiences love it ... and you will, too.

The author includes his exact routine, including every bit of the hilarious patter and bits of business that made Tommy's act a laugh riot on stages from coast to coast. Not burlesque, but a clean comedy "pitch" act that can be performed in churches and schools as well as lodges and clubs. Full of laughs, but not a "blue" gag in the lot. A riot of fun but contains nothing to offend anyone.

You sell and demonstrate "Dr. Presto's Magical Medicines...

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Suitcase Side Show by Tommy Windsor

Here is something different for the club or platform magician - a new act that will get you more bookings. Now you, too, can perform an immensely entertaining carnival pitch act that uses effects you most likely already own.

Contains comedy magic, patter and routines enough for three changes of program. The act is based on a premise of the performer playing the role of a sideshow barker, complete with spiel. Lots of the author's time and money went into this book, which was three years in preparation as the material was polished and refined in actual performance.

If you've ever wanted...

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