"Professor" Wiljalba Frikell
Today is the birthday of Wiljalba Frikell (Friedrich Wilhelm Frickell, 1817-1903). The German magician began performing professionally at age 16. By the early 1840s he was travelling with an elaborate stage set, Turkish costumes, and all sorts of special equipment. When a stage fire destroyed all of that stuff, he was forced to innovate by […]
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