Houdini magic12/27/2022 This mystery was also featured in a second Maro poster, where it is the only thing depicted in the poster. The auction listing says the parasol cover has been restored, but all else is original. The poster above, shows Maro presenting the Meteoric Ribbon's on the right side of the poster, with the giant parasol in his hands. But he received it from Maro's Widow Allie Best after Maro had passed away from Typhoid Fever. First let me state, that yes, Germain did own this item. AND, sometime in mid October, I'll be doing another interview with John, so look forward to hearing that one fairly soon.īut the real gem is actually Lot#57, which is listed as "Germain's Meteoric Ribbons and Parasol Production". Below is the link to listen to the interview. If you googled it, I'm sure you could find it.Īnyway, I bring this up because I got permission from John Michael Marty to use the interview for an episode of my podcast. John was kind enough to plug the blog and the podcast during the interview, though listening back, I realized he gave the blog address wrong, lol. We also spoke of Houdini because, well HOUDINI! You can't really talk magic history without talking about Houdini. So I'm sure those who knew Steve, got a big kick out of that portion of the broadcast. There were other stories I shared that were not so dangerous, but instead rather funny. The escape was frightening and real and left Steve with major burns. That covering was then dowsed with a flammable chemical and Steve had to escape before being burned alive. Then he would be covered with a make-shift T-Pee sort of thing. One of those thrilling escapes took place in Venezuela in the mid 1970s. Sometimes those real things turned bad and I shared a couple of those stories. Unlike a lot of performers who would do 'escape illusions', Steve would do the real thing. Escape, and had a very successful career in the 1970s and 80s doing thrilling escapes on TV. For those unaware, Steve was known as Mr. The interview ran about 40 minutes and was a great deal of fun. I knew John through our mutual friend Steve Baker, so we thought it would be fun to do an interview talking about Steve, Houdini, magic history and also my career as well. Back in 2019, I did an interview with host John Michael Marty for his afternoon show on WSMI-FM radio in Mid-Illinois.
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