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Contents:

• GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950
• THE GAY DECEIVER – 1940S/50S MAGIC BOX – SPARES/REPAIR
• 1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA
• THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET
• 50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD
• INNISTRAD: CRIMSON VOW IS MAGIC THE GATHERG'S GAYT SET YET
• THE GAY DECEIVERS
• THE GAY DECEIVERS 1969

GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET: UK CIR 1950

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Re: The Gay Deceiver - How the tim have changed. Jon, The Gay Deceiver was a character a Hele novel, I read as a kid.

THE GAY DECEIVER – 1940S/50S MAGIC BOX – SPARES/REPAIR

NtertaerIs a lk, to whom, I believe is the te "Gay Deceiver". Back the day, the word 'gay' meant 'happy' and was ed movie tl such as "The Gay Divorcee" so 's not surprisg that they ed the word to name a magic set. Magician wrote:Back the day, the word 'gay' meant 'happy' and was ed movie tl such as "The Gay Divorcee" so 's not surprisg that they ed the word to name a magic do but has, of urse, been siled mon age.

1950'S VTAGE 'THE GAY DECEIVER' WIZARD OF VARIETY MAGIC BOX(SET) BY METRA

Do The Platters still sg “happy and gay like a clown, ” I wonr? As I rell, Clifford Davi, magician, journalist and judge on TV talent show, “New Fac, ” billed himself as the Gay Deceiver.

It was the vague language that prompted me to wonr if was tentnal "gay" thg...

It was meangful a social way back when artists were posg as fashnably gay... "Gay Deceiver" Get the whole rabow to work wh rather than pick between pk and purple.

THE GAY DECEIVER MAGIC SET

I suppose should be noted that the mid-1900s the word "gay" was also ed to note promiscuy eher genr. In that book he refers to the female "gay nurs" who had sex wh male patients. If you have read an above referenc and enuntered the scriptn of the gay ceiver as a man who ce to sce women, then the prr fn mak sense.

50 YEARS LATER, THE FILM GAY DECEIVERS IS STILL VERY GAY, VERY BAD

Into the 1960s the term "gay" beme lked exclively to s current don't often hear anyone sgg "Now we don our gay apparel" the days. Pretend to be a flamboyant homosexual as a character? I have no rellectn of The Gay Deceiver set, but I did have a luxe David Nixon effort.

THISIS A BOXED GAME ENTITLED THEGAY DECEIVER (WIZARD OF VARIETY) MAGIC BOX AS CAN BE SEEN FROM THE ATTACHED PICTURE – THIS ITEM IS NOT COMPLETE AND THE GAME AND BOX ARE VERY MUCH IN NEED OF ATTENTION – SO IS THEREFORE BEING LISTED AS SPARES OR REPAIR. 1950's Vtage 'THE GAY DECEIVER' Wizard Of Variety MAGIC BOX(Set) England By METRA, cir 1950.

Now I've seen 'David Nixon Magic Sets', 'Lance Burton Magic Sets', and even 'Amazg Jonathan Magic Sets', but who was or is this 'Gay Deceiver'? One night betim he went to bed, for he had ught a fever, Said he, "I am a handsome man, and I'm a gay ceiver.

INNISTRAD: CRIMSON VOW IS MAGIC THE GATHERG'S GAYT SET YET

Next, I found a webse wh an image om a silent film om 1925 entled 'The Gay Deceiver'. I me across a New York Tim photo om 1940 tled 'The Gay Deceiver'.

In 1962 an episo of 'The Andy Griffh Show' went to air tled "FLOYD THE GAY DECEIVER". There was even an episo of 'Get Smart' which featured 'Gay Deceivers'...

I'd gus the 'Gay Deceiver Magic Set' had to clu a few of those!

THE GAY DECEIVERS

The next reference was a Broadway play by John Patrick lled 'Gay Deceiver' wh the followg plot:.

THE GAY DECEIVERS 1969

A young man has e to clare his homosexualy to his fay, only to have his rolve erod when he (and his lover) are unexpectedly drawn to his father's mayoral mpaign. They were suggtg that the Gay Deceiver was "an telligent space r".

They are homosexuals...

The last year of the 1960s also broke ground when me to film, wh a movie about a d gay iendship between a htler and a grifter (Midnight Cowboy) wng the Bt Picture Osr the followg year. When me to paradigm-shiftg films of 1969, The Gay Deceivers do not qualify.