CONJURING 30 MINUTES WITH SLYDINI

"Conjuring Slydini" is the title of a fantastic New York Times article by Dick Cavett in which he talks about his own passion for magic, a meeting with "the last of the legendary mystifiers" Blackston Sr., Dai Vernon, Okito, Al Flosso, Jack Gwynne, Virgil, Cardini & Slydini. He relates his first meeting with Slydini backstage after a performance by Doug Henning saying, "I barely I noticed a smallish man standing to one side. Suddenly he said what sounded like, “You D. Cava?” I horripilated. Before me stood the god I haven’t mentioned yet. There, in the flesh, stood Slydini. Instant gooseflesh. He’d been one of the giants in the Pantheon of magic for decades; I would sooner have dreamed of meeting Beethoven. Slydini. Just typing those three syllables even now gives me a frisson. " There is a lovely video of Slydini appearing on the Cavett show which is worth the trip to the site in and of itself.