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Price Williams - Bookplate attached to the book "Magic In The Modern Manner"
4g Magicians Bookplates
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#2659
10*
Conjuring
Magician
Bookplate 
Bookplate-Price McWilliams Library-Magic & Related Subjects-Egyptian Hall
Attached to front cover of "Magic In The Modern Manner" by Orville Meyer (The Wizard Of Ah's)

Bookplate with text, "Price McWilliams Library-Magic & Related Subjects". Image in center has the two masks of Paul McWilliams, with cards around him on the left, and four golf balls around him on the right. McWilliams was a good friend of David Price of the Egyptian Hall magic museum.

DATE: Circa 1960s/70s ???
SIZE: 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches.
COND: All in otherwise very Fine, almost Mint condition.
Product Details
Personal Details
Read It No
Location Magic Library (Home)
Condition Mint
Owner Bryan-Keith Taylor
Notes
From Magicpedia, courtesy of Genii Magazine:

Paul McWilliams (1904-1984) was a professional magician who traveled and performed extensively throughout the U.S. many times during his 40 year performing career. McWilliams became a professional magician in 1925. He had played the lyceum, in tent shows, expositions, school assemblies, in theaters with a full evening show, vaudeville, nightclubs, and television. He also did a clown act under the name of Spoofy and worked for Ringlings, Bertram Mills and E. K. Fernandes. His forte was comedy and he was considered one of the funniest magicians of his time. He billed himself as ""The Merry Magician" and "America's Most Amusing Magician". His face appeared in the Ripley "Believe It or Not" cartoon (July 19, 1934). He did the act of holding four golf balls in his mouth at five World's Fairs. McWilliams performed an amazing 173 shows at the the John Hix Exhibit of the New York World's Fair on July 23, 1939. Also at the World's Fair, he met Connie Brook, who was working as a dancer. They married on February 4, 1940 in Franklin, Kentucky. Connie immediately became a part of the McWilliams show. During World War II, The McWilliams were among the first to join the U. S. O. Camp Shows performing all over the United States. He was a lifelong friend of David Price. Price used McWilliams career in his book "Magic A Pictorial History History of Conjurers in the Theater" (1985) as an example of all the wonderful magicians who, because of "the breaks" or other reasons, did not make it to the top rung of magical success. After retiring from show business, they ran concessions at Olympic Park in Irvington, New Jersey. He advertised, in 1980, an effect called "Is This P K?" which sold for $50 that was a levitation of a cigar tube.He was a member of the "Cercle Magique" in Nashville and the IBM from 1943 to 1965.