Today is the birthday of August Gerald Fowler (1888-1960). Apprenticed to J. N. Maskelyne, he started performing magic in English music halls in 1906. He specialized in manipulating watches and clocks, billed as “The Watch King” and “The Chronometrical Illusionist”. He made clocks and watches appear, vanish and levitate and at the climax of his […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:10AM on November 1, 2013