$375
Jennings, Larry. Two important letters from Larry Jennings to Bruce Cervon. In the first, dated, July 24 1964, Jennings, in a letter replete with misspellings and errors urges Cervon to move to California: "You'l haft to forgive me for takeing so long to anser your letter but I got it just as I was starting to move to California. I had to see what the Magic Castle was all about and I have been busy as hell. Well Bruce you'd love it out hear. The only card men at the Castle are myself Jay Osy [Ose], Dai Vernon and Leo Benke [Behnke] – now get this – if you pull out a pack of cards people gather around you as if you were Liz Taylor in a topless bathing sute and when your through, the dam fools clap like you'd made the bottom vanish. A person could get a big head out hear." The letter goes on to describe a card effect. Four 8vo pages. The second letter is dated September 8, 1964, and in seven 8vo pages, describes Milt Kort's trick This is Centers? and goes on to explain another card effect in detail. Both letters handwritten in pencil, and signed "Larry." Despite Jennings' atrocious spelling, he communicated to Cervon the methods of various tricks in these letters, and more importantly, gave Cervon the final push to move to Hollywood where the two would sit at the feet of Dai Vernon and study his magic for the next three decades. Jennings and Cervon were the first two Vernon acolytes to move west to follow The Professor and help establish The Magic Castle as the center
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-01-28
