Before Blaine: Blondini
For half a tic I thought I'd already done something on The Amazing Blondini (Michael Costello, 1922-1996), but that's just because his stage is an ingenious mash-up of Blondin and Houdini. Blondini was primarily a fairgound performer, in his native Ireland, as well as Great Britain, and eventually the rest of the continents too. It […]