On Mandrake the Magician " and His Uncanny Doppelganger!
April 11 was the birthday of magician, mentalist, escape artist, ventriloquist, and all around instigator Leon Mandrake (Leon Giglio, 1911-1993). Raised by his mother and an aunt in British Columbia, Mandrake was bitten by the magic bug early, studying the great masters like Thurston and Alexander when they came to play local vaudeville houses, occasionally […]
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