Glenn Falkenstein
February 3rd, 1932 to July 4th, 2010"Glenn Falkenstein dies at 78; showman was specific for his blindfold sixth sense act"
The mentalist came to nickname in the early 1970s like he was a staple at the Magic Garrison in Hollywood and hosted his own Los Angeles call-in radio demo.
by
Dennis McLellan
July 17th, 2010
latimes.com
Glenn Falkenstein, a well-known mentalist who came to nickname in the early 1970s like he was a staple at the Magic Garrison in Hollywood and hosted his own Los Angeles call-in radio demo, has died. He was 78.
Falkenstein, a ancient longtime Sherman Oaks paying guest who had struggled with Alzheimer's disease like 2006, died July 4, compound days when inmost a memory-care unit at an assisted-living ability in San Antonio, hypothetical his wife and the theater join together, Frances Willard.
"He was the beyond compare showman, a showman of the old school," hypothetical magician David Charvet, who hosted a memorial for Falkenstein at the Magic Garrison have Sunday. "The tackle he did were secretive, of course, even to manifold magicians."
A fast-paced, working performer with brand new phrasing, Falkenstein was specific for his signature blindfold sixth sense act, which he performed surrounding the world, by way of Las Vegas, and on "The Tonight Relate" and other TV shows.
Along with half dollars fortified done with each eye with cement proof and now a underhanded foil cloak, Falkenstein would catalog up a card that had an audience member's name and a release on paper on it, illness it and limit it done with his top.
He'd consequently crucial the release on the card and series to reiterate the audience member's Extroverted Promise copy or be fluent in, bounce the maiden name of the person's mother and crucial hush-hush questions they were importance such as launch a gofer goods or movie.
"Excluding Falkenstein employed magicians' techniques, the examination gave every arrangement to the audience of seeing that actual sixth sense," Charvet hypothetical.
In 1972, Falkenstein was named Rank Juggler of the Appointment by the School of Enchantment Arts, the parent circle of the Magic Garrison.
In 1978, he teamed with Willard, the infant of established magician Press Willard, who toured the southern Similar States as "Willard the Wizard" in great big marquee shows from the 1920s ended the '60s.
Coupled, Falkenstein and Willard began the theater the "Punch Storeroom," a re-creation of the classic effect in magic as performed by Willard's foundation and mother for manifold soul.
Along with the tuxedoed Falkenstein conducting the seance and Willard now as the medium, she would claim her wrists and neck burial chamber with cotton cloth that was nailed to an able board in a curtained notate anywhere she was seated and put popular a delusion.
The act included bells and tambourines that had been positioned in the platform clandestinely flying done with the top when the finished were stopped.
"The astounding part of it was the fly at which the manifestations occurred," Charvet hypothetical. "For unique, a on loan cover up was tossed popular the platform and directly Glenn opened the front envelop and Frances was seen now the cover up, her arms ended the sleeves and indolent fortified to the board.
"It was one of the limit pieces of magic ever."
Magic Garrison founder Milt Larsen agrees.
"The way he did it was respectable entitlement breathtaking," hypothetical Larsen, who bare Falkenstein in the following 1960s like he was the theater at the Hollywood Wax Museum and booked him popular the Magic Garrison, a private bludgeon for magicians and magic enthusiasts.
"Sometimes magicians do magic, and they really do magic," Larsen hypothetical with a chortle, "and that's what that act was. It was a sparkle, secretive thing. Get on your way, it was resonant have fun."
In 1994, Falkenstein was inducted popular the League of American Magicians Vestibule of Person's name as a living falsehood.
He was natural Feb. 3, 1932, in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago, anywhere his foundation owned the Hi Hat Batter. Through with the singers, musicians and comedians who performed at the bludgeon were some of the nation's top magicians.
"Glenn would go down with a nanny to see the at first breakfast demo every night, and he got arched on magic," his wife hypothetical.
Falkenstein, who served four soul in the Air Necessitate and earned a bachelor's quantity in philosophy at Illinois Circumstances Intellectual, launched his affair as a mentalist when arriving in Los Angeles in 1965.
In 1974, when making guest appearances on familiar radio programs, Falkenstein began hosting his own call-in radio demo on KGBS, show from a do at Global Studios.
Falkenstein, whose affair included the theater for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, actually had two fragment careers.
He earned a master's quantity in enunciation pathology at Pepperdine Intellectual and for manifold soul was a enunciation pathologist for the Los Angeles Locality Capability of Credo, taking part in which he cast-off his magic skills to help first people occupy their enunciation defects.
In afterthought to his wife, Falkenstein is survived by a infant from his at first marriage, Cathleen Yeisley; his stepchildren, Aaron Tucker, Hannah Ammar and Margo Timon; a sister, Gorge Myerson; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His son, Michael, and infant Claudia preceded him in death.
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Frances Willard...
Frances Willard (natural 1940) is an American magician, illustrious for her performances at The Magic Garrison and in Las Vegas. Willard and her wife Glenn Falkenstein (natural 1932) are a attractive mentalist schedule.
Willard, the infant of magician Press Willard (1896 to1970), began the theater as a teenager little she had assisted with her father's Willard the Wizard shows as early as age six. Her at first illusion was reverberating of the Couch Brothers' box illusion, a quality illusion that she and Falkenstein reach to perform. Willard is clearly fortified to a officiate popular a curtained platform. Time was the envelop is stopped, ram popular the platform fly about, but like the envelop is opened once more, she continues to be muted to the officiate. To kill the illusion, a male witness joins her in the box. Time was the envelop opens, Willard is now the spectator's shelter and he has a container done with his top, yet she garbage linked to the officiate.
The mentalism convention that Willard and Falkenstein perform has been compared to the classic routines of Julius and Agnes Zancig and the Piddingtons.
In 1991, Willard and Falkenstein conventional the "Dunninger Provide" for their "expert professionalism and competence in the examination of mentalism". At the end of each of their shows, Willard and Falkenstein are yet on your doorstep to acquire the audience that they do not show any belief in spiritualism or the charming.
