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David Devant (22 February 1868 – 13 October 1941) was an English magician, shadowgraphist and film exhibitor. He was born David Wighton in Holloway, London . [ 1 ] He is regarded by magicians as a consummate exponent of suave and witty presentation of stage illusion. [ 2 ]
John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 – 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices.He worked with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, and many of his illusions are still performed today.
It was Devant who, in 1896, sold Méliès a film projector made by the British pioneer Robert Paul. The year appearing for Méliès's camera, Devant had also been filmed by Paul, and Devant would later go on to try filmmaking on his own. [1] D. Devant, Conjurer was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 101 in its catalogues. [2]
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Dr. Pipt also invented the Powder of Life (although in the 1904 novel The Marvelous Land of Oz this invention is credited to another crooked magician named Dr. Nikidik). In an article in the Spring 1965 issue of The Baum Bugle , Lee Speth argues that Nikidik faked his death in the earlier book, to assume a new identity as Pipt.
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One of Devant's stage illusions was to produce a floating apparition of his ‘spirit wife’. Georgeson told the Sunday Times, "I knew it was lazy just to nick the name, David Devant and His Spirit Wife, so I decided to research the man. I read the book and his nickname at school was the same as mine – Monkey Face…