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The earliest picture of PAVEL the MAGICIAN
December 1955

First "advertising" photo - 13 years old
(note the display of the props - a striking perfection)

Somebody told me later: "One of the conditions of being successful in Magic is to be a perfectionist." Maybe true...

Numerous public shows for kids and aged people
on-stage of KIM Magic Club in Prague
1956-1959 (those happy years)

Christmas 1960
The young magician performs Chango Cards, Vanishing Die,
Ball & Vase, Hoppity Rabbits and... Short & Long Ropes!

Becoming the MEMBER of the prestigious NSK club in Prague was a fantastic opportunity to come close to the local TOP personalities in magic

Prague - Czechoslovakia

Fifth anniversary panel of
Nova Scena Kouzel

"New Magic Scene"
1955 - 1960

Top:
Duo Mazakian and Mila Trnka

Honorary member:
Fred G. Taylor
US Embassy Attaché in Prague

PAVEL
The youngest member
joined the club in 1959

Club meeting of NSK in Prague
1961

Studying
Jerry Andrus' Linking Pins
(Fred gave a set to each of us)

Standing: Pavel POMEZNÝ, Josef HOLUB, Antonín KOHLMAN,
Stanislav POKORNÝ, Zdenek DOBROVOLNÝ, Josef MANAS
Sitting: Miroslav CERVÍNEK, Míla TRNKA, Arnošt KROPÁCEK,
Fred G. TAYLOR, Eduard MAZAKIÁN

My longstanding colleague,
Josef MANAS,
who had illustrated
most of my books and
lecture notes

Inverted drawing
reveals the face of
the "Young" Lady
50 years later!

Garden Party Performance
busy young magician - over 50 shows in 1961

First performance of the "Tricks from five boxes" in the KOTVA Theatre in Prague on April 13, 1962	Six months later the act was awarded 1st price in the State Young Magician Contest
The idea consisted in removing the props from collapsible boxes which spelt (and finally impressed) P. A. V. E. L
	The very first appearance abroad Magic Congress in Magdeburg, East Germany 1963 Czech delegation included Karel Busina, Pavel, Lubos Vondracek, Duo Mazakians and Mila Trnka

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The very first lecture ever

given in Dresden, East Germany (DDR)
on March 5, 1964

These snaps had actually been taken
during the return to Germany in 1968

Pavel receiving the congratulations of
Ing. Herbert Paufler,
President of MZvD, Dresden

. "All the World is a stage...

...and all the men and women...

...merely players !"...

William Shakespeare ..

Cheers !

The 1964 Style

The Beatles Generation

may recall the song:

"...will you still need me,
will you still feed me,
when I'm sixty-four?...
...you can send a bottle of wine...
yours sincerely wasting away..."

What are you waiting for?

I am just 64 !

First appearance in Western Europe
Congress in Triberg, Germany, 1965

with the President of MZvD Willi Faster

Working Cabaret
here in a night-club in Brno in 1966

21-year old student
making his first pocket money
as a part-time magician

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The year 1966 - The spring to the International career

TRICKS Jubilee
Amsterdam

1st A.F.A.P. Convention
Paris

Prof. SITTA's Convention
San Andrea
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Knots-off-Silk

I.B.M. Convention
Hastings

TV Show in Hamburg

TRIKS Jubilee in Amsterdam
Pavel, Keith Cooper, Claude Rix, Piet, Forton, Jack Mayes

Honorary Membership Ceremony

KIM Club
Prague, CZ

Member of

KIM Club, Praha
Nová scéna kouzel, Praha
KLAM Club, Praha
Unie Magiku, Praha
Divadlo Kouzel, Praha
MZ der DDR, Berlin
Vereinigung MK, Wien
Magier Klub, Klagenfurt
Cercle Magique Suisse
MRS, Schweiz
CMN, Neuchâtel
Magic Promotion Club
Supreme Magicians' Club
Society of Japaneese Magicians
S.I.M., Rio de Janeiro
IBM (since 1968)
Order of Merlin Shield
India-Ring, Calcutta
etc.

First time in

the Netherlands

TRICKS Jubilee

Amsterdam 1966

Hank Vermeyden
the F.I.S.M. President

Jean Garance
Président à vie du CMG
Genève, Suisse

First visit to England
I.B.M. Convention at
the White Rock Pavilion in Hastings
September 1966

First appearance in Switzerland
Théâtre Claude Bercantal à Lausanne
May 1966

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Who actually may still be aware of the fact that three enthusiastic fellow-magicians from Europe, Anverdi (1965), Marconick (1966) and Pavel (1967)
had pioneered the LECTURING BUSINESS in the USA ? We came to show and share new ideas in stand-up parlor magic.
Reciprocally, Dai Vernon and other US performers traveled to the Continent letting the European magicians discover the subtleties of the modern card magic...

America, here I come !

Annual S.A.M Convention

Brooklyn Academy of Music
April, 1967

New York City

Spring 1967

Lecturing for the S.A.M. Parent Assembly

The Linking Ring stated:
"New approach, new ideas and charming delivery..."

Second U.S. Lecture Tour
May, 1968

Performing for the Syd Bergson
I.B.M Ring 45
in Miami, Florida

The very first U.S. lecture given to

S.A.M. # 1 Parent Assembly

in New York City
April, 1967

Congratulations group
Larry Weeks, Ramigo, Prof. Horak, Angelo Penne, (Friend), Tony Slydini
and Emil Loew, President

Emil LOEW
organized most of Pavel's U.S. Tours

Magic at the Niagara Falls
with Gene Gordon in Buffalo, N.Y.

Award by the Academy of Magical Arts for
the Best Trick
Hollywood
1968

Ed Sullivan Show

New York

April 21, 1968

Zebra Paper Tear

Pavel receives the congratulations of
Ed Sullivan

Replica of Dai Vernon's Hands
with a deck of cards and a cigar

Photos actually taken from the screen

"Cowboy" from Switzerland
in Saint-Vincent, Aosta Valley, Italy
1974

Florida State Convention
1971
......with Syd Bergson, Ace Gorham,
Bill Grigsby and friend

Night Club Act "Two Cones"
JUMBO Blendo Finale
1975

1978

Honeymoon at Las Vegas
sitting with Siegfried and Roy, Hardy and spouse Barbara
in the "STARDUST" dressing room

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Best Dealers Demonstration Trophy

at the AFAP French Convention
in Versailles

presented by Klingsor and Horace

Magic Day in London 1980
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Ron Macmillan, Pavel, Bob Brown, Marconic, Brenda, Rovi and Herbert von Held

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A couple of years later at the same bar
with Richard Ross and
Hank Vermeyden & fellow-magicians

We miss most of them...

5e Magie à Genève 1985
Tony Yann, Dan Cristo, Devil, Richard Ross,
Rob Suvac, Pavel, Domenico Dante

Le Cénacle Magique 5
Les 5 derniers mohycans en Garden Party
1989

The I.B.M. President, Tony Shelley
visits us at the 8th MAGIC IN GENEVA
1988

LE CENACLE MAGIQUE 5
1979-1999

"Private" Magic Club
No president, no secretary, no treasurer

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It may look alike a mafia session...
Le Cénacle Magique 5
receives the FISM Winner
Richard ROSS (center)

Trobada Magica, Platja'd'Aro, Spain
Fred ROBY and XEVI à la Costa Brava

1986
(another) very good year
The U.S. come-back

I.B.M. Convention at Long Beach
Magic Castle and Abbott's Get-together
plus
..<<<<<<.Grand Prix Magique (Cowboy Rope Act)).....
...Monte Carlo, Monaco

Tenkai Party (Cabaret Act) >>>...
Tokyo, Japan..