This ebook describes a number of new variety acts for the amateur entertainer that will enable him to present up-to- date versions of Chapeaugraphy (making many hats from one brim), Mind Reading, Chinese Paper Folding, Magic Spelling, Paper Tearing, Lightning Cartoons, Shadowgraphs and Magic.
Practically all the materials used to construct the simple props can be found in the home or bought in local stores, and great use is made of ordinary newspaper.
It is vital that talk and action should be practised together, so a detailed script with full patter and performing notes is given with each act. Notes on how to dress up the acts with extra props, costumes, lights, music and stage settings are included.
All these scripts and routines are Eric Hawkesworth's own invention and have been used in his programmes.
- Foreword
- Chapeaugraphy
- Making the Chapeau Brim
- Forming the Brim into Hats
- Performing the Routine: What to Say and Do
- The Great Computo
- Card into Crystal
- A Sweet Prediction
- Name of the Game
- Chinese Paper Folding
- Making the Pleated Paper Fold
- Performing the Routine: What to Say and Do
- Magic Spelling
- Making the Paper Strip
- Folding the Strip
- Performing the Routine: What to Say and Do
- Paper Tearing
- Effect
- Preparing the Paper Folds
- Performing the Routine: What to Say and Do
- Drawing by Numbers
- Making the Apparatus
- Line Developments
- Performing the Routine: What to Say and Do
- A Stage Shadowgraph Show
- Screen and Projection Lamp
- Hand Shadowgraphs
- Performing the Routine: What to Say and Do
- Additional Shadowgraphs
- It's Magic!
- Coins A-plenty
- Power of the Press
- Snow White Wash
- Showmanship and Presentation
1st edition 1973, 95 pages; PDF 56 pages.
word count: 17671 which is equivalent to 70 standard pages of text
