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    My Best Trick-Goldin

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    Horace Goldin invented a new method of performing magic tricks in rapid succession without explanation that revived public interest in magic. This allowed him to obtain his first engagement as a magician eight years ago when magic was declining in popularity. His new style of magic was a success, performing before royal families across Europe up to four times in a single week. Goldin believes his most important trick was reviving interest in magic and increasing magicians' salaries by 70%, rather than any single illusion, through tricking both the public and managers.

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    Horace Goldin invented a new method of performing magic tricks in rapid succession without explanation that revived public interest in magic. This allowed him to obtain his first engagement as a magician eight years ago when magic was declining in popularity. His new style of magic was a success, performing before royal families across Europe up to four times in a single week. Goldin believes his most important trick was reviving interest in magic and increasing magicians' salaries by 70%, rather than any single illusion, through tricking both the public and managers.

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    My Best Trick Horace Goldin Originally published in Goldston's The Magician's Annual, 1907-1908.

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    Horace Goldin invented a new method of performing magic tricks in rapid succession without explanation that revived public interest in magic. This allowed him to obtain his first engagement as a magician eight years ago when magic was declining in popularity. His new style of magic was a success, performing before royal families across Europe up to four times in a single week. Goldin believes his most important trick was reviving interest in magic and increasing magicians' salaries by 70%, rather than any single illusion, through tricking both the public and managers.

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    My Best Trick-Goldin

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    Horace Goldin invented a new method of performing magic tricks in rapid succession without explanation that revived public interest in magic. This allowed him to obtain his first engagement as a magician eight years ago when magic was declining in popularity. His new style of magic was a success, performing before royal families across Europe up to four times in a single week. Goldin believes his most important trick was reviving interest in magic and increasing magicians' salaries by 70%, rather than any single illusion, through tricking both the public and managers.

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    My Best Trick

    Horace Goldin
    Originally published in Goldston's
    The Magician's Annual, 1907-1908.
    My best trick without doubt is my invention
    of a new method of doing old tricks, thereby
    bringing magic into the demand it is to-day.
    Eight years ago magic was very much on the
    wane, so far as public opinion was concerned,
    as I found to my great disappointment when I
    tried to obtain my first engagement. Nobody
    wanted an unknown magician, although
    unknown dancers, acrobats, etc., could find
    engagements.
    I was told by one manager that even if I were excellent he could
    not have me, as the public did not care to be annoyed by being
    asked to draw cards and otherwise assist in the conjurer's
    performance.
    I set my brains to work, lying awake night after night, trying to
    think of something new and great in the magic line. At last I hit
    upon the idea of doing all my tricks, both new and old, in a new
    and original manner. My idea was to cause all my tricks to
    follow one another in rapid succession, and omit the patter
    which, so far back as magicians had been heard of, had been
    considered most essential, giving sufficient time to perform the
    trick, and also as a method of getting the attention of the
    audience away from the movement, which the audience was not
    supposed to see.
    I produced my new act in fear and trembling. It was something
    so entirely different from the usual methods, and I had myself
    hitherto depended so much on my patter to assist me.
    I have been amply repaid for all my worry and anxiety, as it has
    given me the opportunity of appearing before nearly all the
    crowned heads of Europe, and as often as four times in eight
    days, which makes the record for Royal commands in England.
    I have felt convinced that my efforts have done some good in the
    world, as my new methods revived public interest and generally
    brought magical acts in demand as if by magic (and it was truly
    Goldin's magic), thereby bringing the salaries up 70 per cent and
    although I have invented many new and original tricks since
    then, I think my best trick was in tricking the public to like me
    and my tricks, and thereby tricking the managers into paying at
    least three times the amount of salary to conjurers ever paid
    before.

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