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LeRoy, Servais (Jean Henri Servais LeRoy). Program for Servais LeRoy’s Final Performance. New York, 1940. Four-page program for LeRoy’s final stage performance held at the Heckscher Theater on June 6, 1940 under the auspices of Sam Margules. Twenty-six part program in three parts. Black ink on light blue stock. 8vo. Mild toning; very good. Considered a nightmarish disaster, this performance was conceived as a way for LeRoy to bask in the glow of approval from his peers at the sunset of his career. The result was anything but glorious. According to Jean Hugard, “…the thing was a tragedy to those who had known LeRoy as a really great magician and a cause for jeers from those who had never seen him. A sad close to a great career in magic.” Margules closed the curtain on LeRoy long before he could finish the program.