What a great man. Thanks Glenn for all you given me and the community. My deepest condolences to Frances and the family.

Sorry to hear that. A great loss to our community

First Corinda now Glen.... speechless.

The finest Spirit Cabinet act I have ever seen - when she levitated above the curtained cabinet, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up!

I had the great fortune to meet them in the UK some years ago at a Bristol Day of Magic.

I remember them both to be charming, self-effacing and lovely people. My condolences to Frances and her family. He will be missed.

Leslie

I have a very special connection to Glenn: he got me started in magic.

I was eight years old when I first met Mr. Falkenstein: his son Mike and I were in the same Cub Scout Pack. Every year he would do a magic show for us, in the auditorium of Westport Heights Elementary School in Los Angeles. His first show for the Cub Scouts, and that of another magician (whose name I cannot recall) at our annual school carnival (where I was one of the audience volunteers who got to come on stage and help) instilled in me a love of magic.

My parents used to go to The Magic Castle with Glenn during those years, and thanks to my mom's descriptions I had a vivid picture in my young mind of The Castle. I can remember vividly a show that Glenn did at El Camino College, where he, blindfolded with his steel mask, divined all sorts of personal information about the guest he had invited on stage from the audience. (That guest, it turns out, was my father.)

About twenty years ago I was trying to get in touch with Glenn, but I had no idea where he was living. I decided to write him a letter, put it in an envelope with his name but no address, then put that in another envelope addressed to The Magic Castle, with a request that they mail it to him (and an explanation of how I knew him). The management did not mail him the letter. Instead, they handed it to him that evening when he arrived for his shows: he was booked that week. The next day, Glenn phoned me and invited me and my family to The Castle for Sunday brunch. I'll never forget seeing him walk into the dining room as we were eating, and look around the room. I told my wife that that was Glenn. "Do you know what he's looking for?" I asked her.

"What?"

"He's looking for an eleven-year-old kid."

I walked up to Glenn and reintroduced myself, and introduced my family. He said that he was looking for someone who looked like my father; that, alas, was futile, as I look nothing like my father.

Glenn and Fran were in the Palace that afternoon, so we got to see their show. Afterward, Fran mentioned that her son-in-law did some close-up magic and offered to put him in touch with me. Unfortunately, that never happened.

(Interestingly, that Sunday was the day I met Rich Cowley for the first time. That's a story for another day.)

A few years later we got to see Glenn and Fran at Universal Studios just before Halloween, and a couple of years later we saw them in the Parlour at The Castle. At Universal Studios we met them after their show, and a woman came up and pleaded with Glenn to tell her fortune. Glenn told her that it was all an act, and that they didn't believe in fortune telling, clairvoyance, and so on, but the woman was adament. Interestingly, when we saw them at The Castle, Glenn began the act by saying the same thing: that they didn't believe in fortune telling, clairvoyance, and so on. I wondered how many such women had pleaded similarly, prompting the pre-show disclaimer.

Glenn was very, very special to me.

I attended the memorial service for Glenn this evening at The Magic Castle. The Palace was packed. In addition to his family, I saw Norm Neilsen, John Carney, Mike Caveney, Tina Lenert, Rafael Benetar, Jonathan Pendragon, and many, many others. It was a wonderful tribute to Glenn.

Wish I could have been there. I, too, have many fond memories of Glenn that go back many years. He will be missed.

Bob Cassidy

RIP Glenn, another sad news after Corinda......