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"My idol and my ideal" says Dorny of the magician Thurston
(animation by Bill Boyer)
Dorny with Mr. Howard Thurston. Inscribed by Dorny on October 30,1928 to Australian magician, Will Alma. Source: W.G. Alma Conjuring Collection, State Library of Victoria, Australia
The famous offer by Mr. Thurston to Dorny in December 1925.
Source: Robert Lund Memorial Library, American Museum of Magic
[click to play] In the animation above, historian Tom Ewing tells the story of "the time Thurston had Dorny arrested." (animation by Bill Boyer / edit by Carl Diehl)
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