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Annemann, Theo (Theodore Squires). Annemann Final Performance Unused Ticket. Issued for a show at New York’s Chanin Auditorium scheduled for January 26, 1942, fourteen days after Annemann’s tragic suicide. Soiled from age, but intact and overall good condition. A rare artifact from the short, storied, and prolific career of one of the great minds of mental magic, Ted Annemann. Remembered and revered as an inventor of mind reading feats and card effects, and one of the ten “Card Stars of the USA” in Hilliard’s classic, Greater Magic, Annemann likely garnered more publicity for his feat of catching a bullet than any other effect in his repertoire. Typically performing the feat out-of-doors, he was scheduled to finally stage the stunt as part of a theatre show at the Chanin Auditorium on January 26th 1942 – the date printed on the ticket offered here. Sadly, due to a likely combination of nerves and habitual substance abuse, he took his own life two weeks before the performance. The intervening years, however, have been kind to his memory, as his creative output was both immense and important to the magic community at large.