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Floyd, Walter. Do You Believe in Magic? See Floyd the Magician. New York: Hegeman Print, ca. 1917. Minimalist poster advertises the Red Triangle Lyceum show of Walter and Mohala Floyd, who presented a program of magic and mind-reading. 14 x 20 1/2". A. Born in Chelsea, Mass. in 1861, Walter Floyd was a pioneer in the Lyceum entertainment field and served his apprenticeship as an assistant to another well-known East Coast magician, Robert Nickle. Over the course of his career, he performed some 5,000 shows in a wide variety of venues. On Aug. 21, 1940, at the age of 79, while giving a show for approximately 100 men at a banquet in his hometown, Floyd collapsed and died of a heart attack. He was performing his version of the Miser’s Dream, in which coins are caught in mid-air. His wife Mohala later discovered that several coins used in the trick remained palmed in Floyd’s hand when he died.


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