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Maxim Regular user London 113 Posts |
Hi everyone, I hope this morning/afternoon/evening finds you well.
Just to ask if anyone could clear up for me where Monsieur Hugard was from please? I thought he was French or Belgian as his name would suggest. But I think I read somewhere that he was actually Chinese. Is this true? Thanks in advance, Maxim. |
Sjiwi New user Belgium 57 Posts |
Apparently, Jean Huard was born as John Gerard Rodney Boyce (1871-1959), in Queensland (AUS). He did have a "Chinese" show called "Night in a Chinese Palace" under the name Ching Ling Foo.
I got this from this site (which is in German, by the way): Click Here! cheers, Sjiwi |
Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
Right on, John Gerard Rodney Boyce was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia on December 4, 1872 (not 71) to be exact.
As Jean Hugard, he presented the Chinese routine as a part of his full-evening magic show. He sailed from Australia on a world tour in 1913, and performed in New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Samoa, and Hawaii en route to California. When his feature mystery, the bullet-catch, was banned in the U.S.A. during the years of World War 1, Hugard played the vaudeville circuit with his Chinese act. In 1919 he opened a theatre of magic at Coney Island, New York. He retired from the stage in 1927 and started a second career as a writer and teacher of magic. His many excellent technical manuals and “Hugard’s Magic Monthly”, which he edited and published for 17 years made him a world authority on conjuring. Although Hugard was deaf and had been blind for several years, he still dictated precise instructions until a week or so before he died in Brooklyn, New Your, on August 4, 1959, at the age of 86! (Melborne Christopher “The Illustrated History of Magic”, 1973,)
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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Maxim Regular user London 113 Posts |
So the chap was an Aussie, changed his name to a French one, but did a Chinese routine... interesting.
Thanks for the info. Maxim. |
Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
And lived over half of his life in the USA.
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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