Jean Hugard

Jean Hugard

Infobox_Person
Name = Jean Hugard
Background = close up magician
Birth_name = Jean Hugard
nationality = Australian
known_for = sleight of Hand, card magic
Alias = Jean Hugard
Born = birth date and age|1871|12|04|df=y
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
DateOfDeath = Dda|1959|08|14|0000|0|00
Occupation = professional magician
birth_place = Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia flagicon|Australia Born 1872
death_cause = natural causes
occupation = magician / author
death_date = 1959

Jean Hugard (4 December 1872 - 14 August 1959)was an Australian professional magician.

History

Hugard was born John Gerard Rodney Boyce in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. He was a masterful performer and one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers on magic. Through his writing he brought the literature of magic up to a new, professional level. [cite web |url=http://vanishedlibrary.wikia.com/wiki/Jean_Hugard |title= Jean Hugard - The Vanished Library ]

Jean used the stage and pen name of Jean Hugard and Chin Sun Loo. He was inspired in 1880 seeing a Haselmayer show. [cite web |url=http://www.lybrary.com/jean-hugard-m-12.html |title= Jean Hugard - Lybrary] He eventually began his professional career in 1896. [cite web |url=http://www.card-trick.com/magicians/hugard.htm |title= Card Trick Magicians - Jean Hugard ]

One of his full evening shows presented on tour in Australia and New Zealand was a silent Chinese act. He also was known for his bullet catch routine he called "The Great Rifle Feat". He was the first to present it with modern day guns at the time.

In 1915, he moved to USA and worked in vaudeville from 1916 until 1918. One of his feature attractions then was "Birth of the Sea Nymph." [cite web |url=http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php/Jean_Hugard |title= Jean Hugard MagicPedia Entry]

He owned and performed in a magic theater in Luna Park (at Coney Island) from 1919-1929. He also appeared in a Broadway Show in 1928 at the Forrest Theater called "The Squealer."

When he retired from performing, he moved to Brooklyn to write and edit magic publications. He wrote more then 30 books on magic. With the death of John Northern Hilliard who had written only the first chapter of Greater Magic, left a lot of manuscript to be completed. Carl Waring Jones, who had contracted for it's publication, brought Jean Hugard on board in 1938 to complete and enlarge the text to over 1,000 pages.

He was editor of Hugard's Magic Monthly starting in 1943. He was also named the forth ever Society of American Magicians - Dean of Magicians in 1951. [cite web |url=http://www.card-trick.com/magicians/hugard.htm |title= Card Trick Magicians - Jean Hugard ] Near the end of his life, Hugard was blind, having lost the sight of both eyes following operations for the removal of cataracts. In spite of this handicap he continued to work in the magic field at his home in Brooklyn, NY.

Published Works

* Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (with J.J. Crimmins)
* Card Manipulations N° 1 & 2 (1933)
* Card Manipulations N° 3 (1934)
* Card Manipulations N° 4 (1935)
* Mental Magic with Cards (1935)
* Coin Magic (1935)
* Card Manipulations N° 5 (1936)
* Thimble Magic (1936)
* Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937)
* Money Magic (1937)
* Silken Sorcery (1937)
* Close-up Magic (1938)
* More Card Manipulations N° 1 (1938)
* More Card Manipulations N° 2 (1939)
* Modern Magic Manual (1939)
* More Card manipualtions N° 3 (1940)
* More Card manipulations N° 4 (1941)
* Sealed Mysteries of Pocket Magic (1943)
* Houdini's Unmasking (1957)
* Expert Card Technique (1940) with (Frederick Braue)
* The Stripper Deck - Miracle Methods No. 1 (1941) with (Frederick Braue)
* Miracle Shuffles and Tricks - Miracle Methods No. 2 (1942) with (Frederick Braue)
* Prepared Cards and Accessories - Miracle Methods No. 3 (1942) with (Frederick Braue)
* Tricks and Sleights - Miracle Methods No. 4 (1943) with (Frederick Braue)
* The Invisible Pass (1946) with (Frederick Braue)
* Show Stoppers with Cards (1948) with (Frederick Braue)
* Royal Road to Card Magic (1948) with Frederick Braue)

Awards and Honors

* Selected to the Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame.
* Magic Circle's highest award, the Silver Wand
* "Milbourne Christopher Award," a plaque that Walt Rollins gave each year in the memory of his son Chipper, to the magician who has done most in the advancement of "brotherly love."
* International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 136 (Brisbane, Australia) is named in his honor.
* International Brotherhood of Magicians honorary life member

Books about

Jean Hugard By James B. Alfredson cite book| last=Alfredson | first=James | year=1997 | title=Jean Hugard | publisher=David Meyer Magic Books | isbn=0916638847 | ref=CITEREFAlfredson1997 (1997) - Looks at the life and career of an accomplished magician who worked during the 1930s and 1940s, and his influence on the performance of magic during his day. Published by David Meyer Magic Books.

See also

*List of magicians
*Magicians
*Card magic
*sleight of hand

External Links

*SeeMagicPedia
* [http://www.card-trick.com/magicians/hugard.htm Jean Hugard Biography]
* [http://www.lybrary.com/jean-hugard-m-12.html Jean Hugard biography]
* [http://vanishedlibrary.wikia.com/wiki/Jean_Hugard The Vanished Library]
* [http://comradeconjuror.blogspot.com/2005/06/what-hell-was-jean-hugard-thinking.html What the hell was Hugard thinking?]
* [http://www.andigladwin.co.uk/blog/posts/jean-hugard-on-the-pass/ Jean Hugard on the Pass]
* [http://members.tripod.com/magicref/books/hugardroyal.htm Hugard & Braue: Royal Road to Card Magic table of contents]

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