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There was a bigger demand for a special type of magic, namely that of Pseudomentalism, and successes in this field were scored by Dunninger, Chan Canasta, Fogel, Koran and David Berglas. Today this scene has taken on even greater glamour with the emergency of Uri Geller.
But the days of invention were still with us, and in South African-born Robert Harbin one saw so much that was akin to Selbit. Today the illusions that he personally originates have to be capable of performance surrounded by and audience, which calls for greater ingenuity, and one of his most famous inventions, "The Zig-Zag Girl"*, must have been seen in every part of the globe.
Holland has been the producer of so many original and clever
magicians, supreme among them Fred Kaps. The call for small magic on many occasions has produced outstanding magicians like Albert Goshman and should many think that magic is the Derogative of the male sex, the distaff side has shown its ability, two of its outstanding representatives being June Merlin of Great Britain and Elizabeth Warlock of Canada.
*an illusion which can often be seen performed by Kenley Browne.
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