Ray Bradbury

[Jack Shalom]

From Wikipedia:
"Bradbury attributed his lifelong habit of writing every day to two incidents. The first, when he was three years old, was his mother's taking him to see Lon Chaney in the 1923 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.[30] The second occurred in 1932, when a carnival entertainer, one Mr. Electrico, touched the young man on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted: "Live forever!"[31] Bradbury remarked: "I felt that something strange and wonderful had happened to me because of my encounter with Mr. Electrico ... [he] gave me a future ... I began to write, full-time. I have written every single day of my life since that day 69 years ago."[31] At that age, Bradbury first started to do magic, which was his first great love. He said that had he not discovered writing, he would have become a magician.[32]"

Anyone know more about this?

[Richard Kaufman]

Brian Sibley would--you can find him on Facebook.

[Bill Mullins]

I've spent some time trying to find a record, anywhere, of a performer named "Mr. Electrico" touring in the midwest at the proper time. So far, nothing.