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| Born | March 2, 1872 Decorah, Iowa |
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| Died | December 8, 1948 (age 76) Chicago, Illinois |
Frank Caesar was a professional magician that toured the United States starting the early 1900s.
Growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of a book binder, became interested in magic after seeing Alexander Herrmann in 1889.
A year later he was touring America as a magician. In 1896 he married Helen Babe Lewis and the began performing a "Trunk Substitution" which Caesar built himself. They performed in vaudeville for many years with great success.
In 1922, he went into the manufacturing magic.[1]
A photograph of him can be viewed at the Conjuring Arts' exhibit "The Many Faces of Magic."[2]
References
- ↑ Broken Wand, Linking Ring, January 1949
- ↑ http://conjuringarts.org/exhibitions/the-many-faces-of-magic/frank-caesar/