La Vellma's vaudeville budget for magicians, mind readers, and ventriloquists
A 1921 handbook of stage routines by vaudeville performer David J. Lustig (La Vellma), issued in Somerville, Massachusetts, for working magicians, mind readers and ventriloquists. Line drawings and engravings mix a brush-drawn devil head, a king of spades card, an ouroboros medallion with interlaced triangles and dollar sign, braille dots, and a hatched skull in profile \u2014 stark black-and-white occult and conjuring stock.
