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Mystic Craig (1900-1987), a professional magician who later owned a model railroad shop, was known for taking early movies of many magicians.
Biography
Bitten by the magic bug by the age of nine, he started working a few school shows. By the time he was 13 he quit school and decided to become a semi-professional. He joined a small carnival where he did his act and then sold slum magic afterwards. He learned to lecture in the sideshow, tried vaudeville, spent time with a medicine show and then with Chautauqua.
He had hired Walter Plummer as his personal manager who gave him the name, "Mystic Craig."
Max Holden, who bought out the Al Baker Magic Company and opened a shop in New York, hired Craig as demonstrator. There he met Todd Petrie, of Petrie-Lewis, who hired him to demonstrate the P&L Magic Sets at Saks Fifth Avenue during the Christmas season.