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Jansen has a home in California, which includes a trick bar and a magic workshop. He hopes to cause a boom in the somewhat stagnant magic business, would like to set up a permanent magic company in Manhattan comparable to London's onetime Maskelyne-Devant Institution. High costs of labor and theatres on Broadway are the big obstacles. Jansen is also interested in getting close to some ghosts, is firmly convinced that he's psychic enough to make friends with them. Although he has taught all his five children magic, and used to saw his two daughters in half, only one of his offspring is now connected with Sim Sala Bim, a son who is his father's man of business, handles backstage, occasionally assists him on stage.