Joseph Jacobs | |
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| Born | c. 1813 |
| Died | (aged 57) |
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| Occupation | Entertainer |
Joseph Jacobs (c. 1813 – 13 October 1870), also known by the stage names The Wizard Jacobs, Jacobs the Wizard, and The Great Jacobs, was an English magician, improvisatore, and ventriloquist.
Jacobs was born to a Jewish family in Canterbury, Kent. [1] He appeared on stage at an early age, visiting Dover, Brighton, Bath, and other provincial towns during the summer and autumn of 1834. [2] He first appeared in London at Horn's Tavern, Kennington, in 1835, where he performed the Chinese ring trick. [3] Four years later he had the honour of performing before the Princess Augusta at Brighton. [2]
At the Strand Theatre in 1841, he made a great show of expensive apparatus in imitation of J. H. Anderson. [4] He performed in 1846 the trick of turning ink into transparent water in which goldfish swam, and in 1850 he introduced the trick of producing from under a shawl bowls of water containing goldfish, afterwards throwing the shawl on the floor, and then, on raising it again, disclosing live ducks or rabbits. [2]
He appeared at the Adelaide Gallery in 1853, in America in 1854, and in 1860 in Australia and New Zealand. In 1860 he also opened the Polygraphic Hall in London. [4]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1904). "Jacobs, Joseph (known as Jacobs the Wizard)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 46.