Today is the 100th birthday of the great Bengali magician Protul Chandra Sorcar (1913-1971). After graduating from college with a mathematics degree, he began to pursue his true passion, magic, achieving fame in his native India and Japan by the mid 1930s. It wasn’t until 20 years later that he invaded the west, as well, appearing on British [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AM on February 23, 2013