"Presto—you are in Normandy.  You wear a velvet gown and flirt with dukes.  Your lovers duel in the moonlit garden."

You're welcome.

From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

"What is it, magic or real?"  Why can't it be both?  From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 1940.

From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.

We're honored to have illustrated federal judge Gary Brown's Inventive Magician's Handbook.

From The Improvement Era, 1963.

From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.

"Leave the disappearing act to the magicians."  From Improvement Era, 1961.

From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1926 yearbook.

Here's the rhyme that'll get you to the Church of Nix-Nowhere.  From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 1921.

"Magic everywhere."  From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).

"The magic fails."  From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894, reproduced in The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature by Boria Sax.

Here's our adaptation of an eerie and bizarre Miracle Jones story. 

Thanks to Vegas headliner Jeff McBride for saying of this video that our film noir lighting, dirge music counterpoint, and standup karmic approach is unique in the world.

From Otterbein College's 1963.

"Did I say 'abracadabra?'"  From Improvement Era, 1945.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.

From 73 Magazine, 1964.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.

"It's all done by mirrors."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.

Put an M before each thing that must be magic.  From Reading for Meaning: On We Go, Teacher's Edition by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.

"The magician began a powerful invocation."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.

"Secret of the boiling kettle."  From Advanced Magic by Magical Ovette, 1919.