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Wilfrid Jonson

Wilfrid Jonson

(Croydon, Surrey, England: 17th September 1899 - 21st January 1974)

Semi-pro since 1925, then pro. Edited the 2 issues of George Johnson's The Magical News (1924). Co-authored (with Harry Leat) Masked Magical Glossary (1928, 31pp), an eccentric effort to disguise 200 familiar jargon terms under a layer of their newly coined terms.

Wrote "London Notes" column for Sphinx since 1930. Wrote Mr. Smith's Guide to Sleight of Hand (1945, 95pp), But Not to Play (1946, 120pp), Conjuring (1950, 96pp), Card Conjuring (1950, 92pp), the last two being reprinted in USA by Dover as Wilfrid Johnson's Magic Tricks (1953, 100pp) and Wilfrid Johnson's Card Tricks (1953, 96pp) that were and finally in combined volume as Magic Tricks and Card Tricks (1954, 100+96pp; repr 1957). Tricks in Magic Wand.

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But not to Play by Wilfrid Jonson

A practical course of instruction in the fundamentals of conjuring with cards.

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The aim of this book is to describe within the bounds of one volume the fundamental sleights and stratagems which are the tools of the modern card conjurer, and to illustrate the use of these tools by a representative selection of tricks with cards. No previous knowledge of the subject is presumed, and the book may be regarded as a primer of card magic.

  • Preface
  • PART I. PRELIMINARY
    • The Art of Conjuring
    • The Cards
    • Learning and Practising
    • The Illustrations
    • Patter
    • Three Ways...
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Magical News by Wilfrid Jonson

This magic news sheet only saw two issues, March 15th and March 29th, 1924. It was published by George Johnson and the editor was Wilfrid G. Jonson.

March 15th, 1924:

  • The First Appearance
  • "Riffles"
  • Bosco?
  • On the Road / Lawrence Glen
  • Maskelyne's Mysteries
  • What's On?
  • The Spelling Bee / Wilfred G. Jonson
  • A Mysterious Card Release / J. Whitehead
  • The Magic Circle
March 29th, 1924:
  • Clairvoyance and Conjuring
  • Carl Hertz
  • Conjuring and the Kinema
  • The Curse of Originality
  • The Magician
  • "Riffles"
  • The Acrobatic Card / George Joyce
  • The Dyeing Handkerchiefs
  • Side Shows of the Past / George Johnson ...
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Mr. Smith's Guide to Sleight of Hand by Wilfrid Jonson

This guide is written in an unusual style, a conversational style, where each lesson starts with "Dear Mr. Smith", like a letter to a fictional student. This feature makes it a very readable and valuable course. In the introduction Jonson writes:

The guide is presented to the reader in the form of a course of personal instruction and the majority of the sleights and tricks are described according to the manner in which I have myself performed them. A number of individual touches and personal inventions have been introduced which I consider to be improvements on previously published methods....

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