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Sources? edit
anyone have ANY third party ref or source for this? Tiksustoo 11:49, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- My bad. I created this quickly in passing when I was working on Svengali deck. Not being a magician, I got the information from somewhere and carelessly neglected to say where. So I'm not sure where I originally got it, but a quick Google turns up:
and this search on a used-book site turns up dozens of books by Burling Hull and
"The Edison of Magic and His Incredible Creations. by Samuel Patrick Smith.
Book Description: Tavares, FL: Samuel & Lee Smith, 1977. First edition. Very good sextodecimo (smaller) softcover in stiff illustrated wrappers. Some wear to edges and corners of cover. 112 p. w/illustrations. A biography and description of tricks of "The Great Volta - the Man with the Radar Mind". Volta performed and taught magic over 80 years, with a claim for the invention of over 500 magical effects. The book includes descriptions of over 15 of these, along with commentaries on patter and the care of rabbits.
Dpbsmith (talk) 15:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
There are a few pics on http://www.freemagictricksandillusions.com/Burling-Hull-Svengali.html which can be used on here as long as link is placed on here
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.204.249.251 (talk) 21:55, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Notability? edit
- He seems to have had his day... but is so obscure it seems crazy that we should give him a Wiki page. Well, as he is dead i guess no self-promotion going on, huh? Tiksustoo 00:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
- The material in this article should stay, somewhere. I don't know if it be in an article of it's own. I don't think he's obscure in the world of magic and magicians but I don't really know. I don't think this article is likely to grow, so if you knew of some other article into which it should be merged, converting this into a redirect, I wouldn't oppose. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
- To mentalisits, the name of Burling Hull is certainly not obscure -- and his invention of the Svengali deck recommends him to card exponents. His book on rope escapes is still in print as well. He is not "obscure" and one wonders at the editorial sagacity of anyone who does think him obscure. I have added a bit more about him to the page, including his still rather famous feud with Robert A. Nelson. 64.142.90.34 (talk) 04:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)