Dr. Franz Julius Polgar (April 18, 1900 - June 19, 1979) was a renowned psychologist, hypnotist, lecturer and entertainer.
The son of Julius Polgar, and Risa Kohn (1869-), née Kohn, Franz Polgar was born in city of Enying, in Fejér County, Hungary on April 18, 1900.
[2][3] He honed his hypnotism skills by working in speakeasy bars in New York City.
[1] During the early days of television, and soon after an early 1949 appearance at the Newburgh Free Academy in Newburgh, New York, in which he claimed to have induced a student, Donald A. Romano, into a trance, Dr. Polgar had a short lived 10-minute show on the CBS television network called The Amazing Polgar[4] Most of his entertaining was done in colleges, universities, and resorts.
[citation needed] His show consisted of three parts: hypnosis demonstration, a mentalism or "mind reading" stunt where he would use Hellstromism to find an object hidden by his audience, and various memory stunts.