Cannon’s Great Escapist Fuel

Nosey Neighbor Close-UpThere are very few in our society who receive and devour magazines and catalogs featuring the very latest in leather tethers, handcuffs, stocks, chains, and leg irons without making it on some government list.

Magicians and legitimate law enforcement are about the only folks who have an excuse for this interest.

We don’t pass judgment on the others who receive such reading material on a monthly basis; but are also careful to avoid passing their house at night or upsetting them in any way.

Canon’s Great Escapes is our favorite place to enjoy our harmless passion.

We haven’t performed an escape (other than a handcuff in-and-out in our current show) in years.

We never owned a Chinese Water Torture Tank, Underwater Packing Box or Barrel Escape, a Milk Can Escape, or even a Substitution Trunk. We have fantasized about each of those devices, however.

Does that make us bad or abnormal? Thank goodness magicians can get away with such daydreams.

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Scarlett Goes from Princess to Seductress on the Strip

Scarlett - Seductive Lady of Magic - SmallScarlett was known as “The Princess of Magic” when she performed a family-friendly afternoon show that ran six days a week in Planet Hollywood’s V Theater. Her act has a new home and a very different name.

Scarlett and the Seductive Ladies of Magic” sounds less family-friendly but nonetheless interesting.

We suppose a show featuring a beautiful redhead and topless female assistants could be family-friendly but probably not the kind of family you would want to live near.

While studied dance for ten years and is no stranger to the stage, she entered the world of magic just a few years ago.

Working first as an assistant to Reno magician Jon Andrew and then his student, Scarlett made her debut last August.

She received high marks from the V Theater’s show producer, David Saxe.

Mr. Saxe knows something about magic and female magicians. His sister is Inside Magic favorite Saxe.

Mr. Saxe told The Las Vegas Sun last summer:

“She totally reminds me of my sister,” says Saxe, who produced Melindafor 16 years as well as the all-female “Showgirls of Magic” at the San Remo (now Hooters hotel). “She has a presence I like.”

Saxe was impressed with her eagerness to learn and to get her career going, not taking the usual path of becoming a specialty act.

“It was a little aggressive of her to start off with a full show, but that’s the way Melinda did it in 1987.

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