![]() Only then, as it turns out, does he step into ![]() Stellar success as a professional performer. There is muchĭetail to be had in this little volume, but the stunning fact is that by 1935, then in hisĮarly 60s, Hugard, more by circumstance than by choice, had retired from his less than In the Coney Island off-season, working variety and even carnival gigs. Pseudo-Asian mysteries as (it appears) "Chin Sun Loo." Hugard booked what he could There, Hugard rented his own little theater where he presented his Performing career here, eventually working at Luna Park, one of the great Coney IslandĪmusement parks. Making his way soon thereafter to New York City, Hugard struggled throughout his ![]() Leaving a wife and two sons behind forever-and emigrated to the United States, arriving Hugard eventually, and rather suddenly, departed his native land in 1916. ![]() Upon the young Hugard that he promptly copied much of the latter's act, right down to He saw William Robinson perform as Chung Ling Soo, which had such a profound effect For the next decade he performed around Australia, during which time Youth, at an age of somewhere between 22 and 24 years he turned to magic Born John Gerard Rodney Boyce in Australia, Hugard worked forĪ time in banking and then in the meat business. Here is an unexpected treat, a compact but refreshing little biography of magic's great Reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss (originally published in Genii July, 1997)
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