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John Northern Hilliard (1872 - 1935) was a Rochester newspaper man and clever amateur magician.

Biography

Hilliard was dramatic critic with The Chicago Herald and later on the staff of The Rochester (N. Y.) Post Express. After moving to New York, he met Howard Thurston while a reporter on The New York World and became interested in magic. John was credited with securing the master magician with his first engagement on the stage. Several years later Thurston induced Hilliard to give up his newspaper work and become his personal representative.

With the urging of Floyd G. Thayer, John starting writing for Thayer's Magical Bulletin magazine. In 1925, Hilliard became an advance man for The Thurston show. During this time he accumulated notes on what he was learning about magic. In 1932, Carl Waring Jones urged him to turn his notes into a book, offering to publish it. But Hilliard suddenly died of a heart attack in 1935 while in a hotel room in Indianapolis.

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+'''John Northern Hilliard''' (1872 - 1935) was a Rochester newspaper man  and clever amateur magician.
-'''Dr. Carlo''' was a magician, magic dealer and inventor in Toledo Ohio, who  went on to start his own religious organization.
 == Biography ==
+Hilliard was dramatic critic with The Chicago Herald and later on the staff of The Rochester (N. Y.) Post Express. After moving to New York, he met [[Howard Thurston]] while a reporter on The New York World and became interested in magic. John was credited with securing the master magician with his first engagement on the stage. Several years later Thurston induced Hilliard to give up his newspaper work and become his personal representative.
-During the Depression, he teamed up with [[Winston Freer]], traveling from city to city, selling their magical inventions to local magicians.
+With the urging of [[Floyd G. Thayer]], John starting writing for [[Thayer's Magical Bulletin]] magazine. In 1925, Hilliard became an advance man for The Thurston show. During this time he accumulated notes on what he was learning about magic. In 1932, Carl Waring Jones urged him to turn his notes into a book, offering to publish it. But Hilliard suddenly died of a heart attack in 1935 while in a hotel room in Indianapolis.
-In 1926 Carlo began doing shows for schools and clubs. He also worked for six years as an entertainer and sales representative of a razor blade company.
-Carlo opened a magic shop in 1941 in Toldeo. In conjunction with the establishment, he organized the [[Society of Toledo Magicians]]. A few years later, in 1944, he started their official monthly publication called "[[The Bunny]]", which he wrote, edited and printed in the back room of his shop.
-A service provided by Carlo was renting out live animals which he kept in the shop.
-[[Karrell Fox]], who dedicated his first book, [[Kornfidentially Yours]] (1954) to Carlo, was once a demonstrator for him. A 1943 picture of Fox with Carlo can be seen in Karrell's later book [[Clever Like a Fox]] (1976).
-In the mid-1950s, Carlo put together a full-evening illusion show, as well as a midnight [[Spook Show]] (in which he took on the stage name "Dr. Carlo") that toured for nearly six years.
-He was one of the first magicians to tour the country with a telephone promotion setup for his magic, illusion and hypnotic show.
-In the 1960s, Carlo began representing himself as a real doctor, at least by implication. He set up his "Hypnotherapy Institute" in which he would would purportedly help clients break bad habits, such as smoking and drinking.
-[[Dr. Carlo|Read more about Dr. Carlo....]]
+[[John Northern Hilliard|Read more about John Northern Hilliard…]]

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