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Contains twelve routines, plus a whole section by Al Goshman, King of the Sponge Balls. Featured is the famous Senator Crandall routine which Don Alan did for Ed Sullivan.

Other routines include: Ghost Balls, Three Ball Trick, Big and Little Balls, Silver and Sponges, Leaping Leprechauns, Passe Passe Sponges, Spicy Sponges, Crandall's Original Routine, Gen. Grant's Favorite, Surprise Finish for Rabbit Routine, Multi-ball, etc.

Tricks range from beginner's stuff to those for the expert. A little practice makes it possible for anyone to learn sponge tricks.

• Goshman's Sponge Routine
• The Ghost...

Illustrated with nostalgic, rare photographs by Irving Desfor. Not to be read just once, but to keep as a reference ebook in your library.

• Great Writers Discuss Books, by John Braun
• Buy Lines, by Jimmy Findlay
• Quest for Magic Books, by George Jenness
• The Magician and Comedy, by Bob Orben
• The Magical Bookie, by S. R. Patrick
• Calculated Risk, by Dr. Edwin A. Dawes
• Pleasures of Reviewing Books, by Sid Lorraine
• Are Magic Books Worthwhile?, by John Mulholland
• Books About Books, by Robert Lund
• Magic Catalogues; Exciting Reading, by Dr. Grossman
• Rarities, by Edgar Heyl
• Thoughts on Lecture Notes, by Gary Bontjes ...

Get your wife, daughter, girl friend into the act! Here's a great comedy routine, very female, full of audience tested laughs, every bit of patter and business furnished - and any intelligent woman can learn to do it. Written pre-women's-lib era, but definitely a woman's routine for the felt chapeau. Owned by many magicians. If not, readily available. This material was used by Frances Marshall for most of her career. A big hit on women's club circuits, spring luncheons, P.T.A.'s, anywhere women congregate. Guaranteed laugh getter in female circles. Full explanation of all accessories used, all...

Everything you need to know about using rabbits in your act - lots of tips on care and maintenance, along with plenty of tricks and anecdotes. Plenty of pictures of bunnies and magicians. Interesting reading.

• How The Rabbit Got Into Magic
• Pets 'N Prestidigitation
• The Top Hat - Square Circle - Ten Rabbit Production
• Cherchez La Rabbit
• Back Stage Rabbit Vanish
• The Bunny Bit
• How To Do The Most Popular Trick In The World
• Irving's Bunny Cotton-Tail
• Bunny In A Basket
• Twin Chests, A Routine For Twin Rabbits
• A Unique Live Stock Production
• Carlton King's Rabbit Box
• The Artist Draws A...

This is new, revised, and enlarged edition of an old favorite. Almost everybody owns a folding coin - and there are now excellent new ones on the market. Now everybody can learn what to do with the trick.

• About The Coin
• The Famous Coin In The Bottle
• A Great Pocket Trick
• Thru The Card
• The Half Dollar In The Wand
• Thru The Hand
• Wrapped In A Dollar
• Production
• In A Cigar
• Silk Threads
• The Handkerchief Pedestal And Coin
• Thru The Hat
• Fake Back Palming
• Thru The Cloth
• Coin Trick With A Top Hat
• In The Handkerchief
• The Wand Shell
• "Half A Dollar"
• Thru The Knee
• Ball Of Wool
• Before We...

Get into the Christmas spirit. This ebook is entirely devoted to tricks and routines for Christmas. Presentations and ideas with tricks you may already own. Instructions for creating or making tricks in the holiday mood, nothing difficult. Pages of ideas to make extra money at Christmas with your magic and your showmanship. Get yourself a Christmas present now and put it to work for you.

• SANTA CLAUS PASSE?
• CHRISTMAS SEASON AND THE MAGICIAN
• Suggestions for advertising
• Selling the show at established locations
• Advertising the Magic Show and/or Santa Claus
• Creating a Santa Visit Center ...

An ebook honoring those great women in magic, some from the past centuries. A world survey of "Those Beautiful Dames." Featuring among others Debbie Henning. Dan Waldron has a section on the Blackstone Saga, covering the magical life of Harry Senior, then the Blackstone, Jr. we know. Beautiful and talented women figured in both their lives, with Gay Blackstone a star in the Blackstone show. Marion Nicola writes of her show and life with the Great Nicola, Val Andrews covers many famous lady assistants. Carol Roy, Mrs. Electric releases the inside story of their adventures in odd parts of the...

The Ireland Magic Company was founded in 1926 by the late Laurie Lowell Ireland. The first retail advertisement appeared in The Sphinx and The Linking Ring for March 1929. The first trick was the clever Ireland Button Trick.

1st edition 1962, 224 pages.

A lively and interesting, compelling collection of little known ideas, often referred to as "betchas". Bet you a drink you can't do so and so like pushing a quarter through a dime sized hole. You may know that one but there are dozens here that are fresh and different, and will get your spectators really involved with your challenges.

Great for bars, lunch table, offices, coffee break, parties, hospitality suites, young peoples affairs, etc. Although you introduce them as an impromptu stunt, you actually have a set program in mind for best results. These amusing little gags can make you the...

This manuscript was published as a guide and a handbook to the exciting field of industrial magic. This may be the blueprint for a brand new career for you. See what experienced performers in the past have done. You can make magic pay big dividends when it is used as: A crowd stopper in Trade Shows and Convention booths, in Super Markets, Grand Openings. To capture attention in sales and pep meetings, to put over the commercial in merchandising shows. To put color, life, excitement into any talk on any subject. To make any speaker "come alive". In commercials on TV. This ebook tells what to...

A play-by-play exposé of the tricks of the card sharp's trade.

Moss gives general advice on how to avoid becoming a sucker or losing more money than luck alone would explain. The most interesting part is where he describes several sleights and strategies cardsharps use to cheat at the card table. Many of the sleights are illustrated with photos.

• Introduction 5
• Meet the Enemy 7
  • Who Are the Victims?
  • Suckers
  • Addicts
  • Defeating the Enemy
  • Luck
  • Greed
  • Amateurs
  • Advice
• Modern Cheating
  • False Cut Number One
  • False Cut Number Two
  • False Cut Number Three
  • False Cut Number Four
  • A Reverse...

Many years ago by a stroke of good luck, a fortunate combination of circumstances, I acquired a complete file of Thayer instruction sheets designed to accompany the apparatus. This just may be the only complete collection of Thayer secrets in existence. Recently I happened to mention this to Lloyd Jones who urged me to compile these instructions in book form, stressing the tremendous value of such a collection to magicians. This I consented to do but found there was too much material for one book. It was therefore decided to issue these secrets in several volumes, of which this is the first.

Some...

• INTRODUCTION
• Ball Magic
  • No. 700. Thayer's "Perfection" Multiplying Billiard Balls
  • No. 701. Special Ball Sets (Cheaper Grade)
  • No. 702. Thayer's "Clingo" Billiard Balls
  • No. 703. Thayer's Super Ball Set
  • No. 520—Unique Rainbow Billiard Ball Trick
  • No. 112—Bingo Billiard Ball Vanish
  • No. 105 The Ball and Handkerchief
  • No. 721. The Diminishing Billiard Ball
  • No. 727. Peerless Billiard Ball Stand
  • No. 487—Reyaht’s Eccentric Tube
  • No. 978. The Floating Ball
• Tricks with Birds, etc.
  • No. 193—The Chafing Dish
  • No. 713—Magical Shot and Enchanted Cage
  • No. 261—The Birds From...

Volume Three of the Thayer Quality Magic Instruction Sheets brings you over 200 more explanations of magic sold by the leading dealer of the Golden Age of Magic, Floyd Thayer. Choice, exclusive magic in eighteen categories, the secret and presentation explained in nearly the exact words as furnished purchasers of what are now real treasures. This, together with the first two volumes, constitutes a veritable encyclopedia of magical knowledge, as you can readily see.

• INTRODUCTION
• Ball Magic
  • No. 115—Patriotic Billiard Balls
  • The Ball and Vase
  • No. 102—Billiard Ball Holder
  • No. 104—Fortune...

Excerpt from the introduction:

1. Magical Bulletin - Volume V, Number 1 - January, 1917 - 7 pages
1. The Burned and Restored Turban - Chicago Magic Co. - advertising
1. cover photo/article - Prof. Harry Cooke
3. Editorial
3. A Lemon Trick - The Great Alexander
4. Good Chosen Card Stunt - Sam Bennett
4. More Magic by Christianer
   • The Conjuror's Touch
5. Publicus Curiositas - G. F. Schulte
5. News and Notes
6. Literature
   • Talks for Tricks - G. F. Schulte
   • Pictorial Review - January
   • The Sphinx - December
   • The Magic Wand - October & November
   • The Eagle Magician - December
   • The Breeze - weekly - E. E. Meredith
6. Chats...

1. Magical Bulletin - Volume VI, Number 1 - January, 1918 - 12 pages
1. cover photo/article - Thayer's New Magical Palace - A Corner of the Display Room
3. Editorial
3. News and Notes
4. Grand Magic Festival - Los Angeles Magicians' Club and Opening of Thayer's Magical Palace
4. An Easy Card Force - Maxwell Chamberlin
4. Paper Finger Manipulation - Kenneth Still
5. An Experiment in So-Called Psychromotism - Alexander
5. The Pipes of Japan - G. C. Bowen
5. Literature
   • Holmes' Magical Notes - December
   • The Sphinx - December
   • Eagle Magician - December
   • The M.U.M.
   • Magicians in Minneapolis private publication...

1. Magical Bulletin - Volume VII, Number 1 - January, 1919 - 12 pages
1. A Series of Essays on Magic Culture - A Series - Oscar S. Teale
   • Magic - Then and Now
3. Editorial
3. A thimble Move - Geo. W. Catlin
4. Old Tricks in New Clothes - T. J. Crawford
   • The Cigarette Papers
4. Penetrative Coin - Charles C. Arras
4. magic notes
5. Magicians Patter (Contributed)
   • "A Mirror Casket, Die and Flag Combination" _ Frederick F. Furman
5. Patter Tips By De Lawrence
5. Literature
   • The Sphinx - December
   • The Magic World - December
   • The Billboard
   • Holmes' Magical Notes and Comments...

1. The Magical Bulletin - Volume 8, Number 1 - January, 1920 - 16 pages
1. cover photo - H. Kellar & F. Trewey
3. Editorial
3. cover photo article - Two Deans of Prestidigitation - Adam Hull Shirk
3. note re: Edward H. Philbrook
4. Conquering a Handicap - Preston Langley Hickey
5. The Menace of Exposure - Edward H. Philbrook
5. Literature
   • The Sphinx - December
   • The Magic Wand - December
   • Felsman's Magical Review - third issue
   • Maddock's Magic Searchlight - December
   • Revelations
   • Passez Muscade (France)
   • Wilford Hutchinson's Conjurers' Chronicle
   • Billboard
6. Hoffmann's "Concentration...

1. The Magical Bulletin - Volume 9, Number 1 - January, 1921 - 16 pages
1. cover photo - A. H. Shirk
3. Editorial and notes
4. cover photo article - A. H. Shirk
4. A Tribute - to Trewey - Harry Kellar
4. Trewey - poem - Adam Hull Shirk
4. Literature
   • The Sphinx - December
   • The Magic Wand - December
   • Felsman's Magical Review - December
   • Hutchinson's Chronicle - December
   • The Magic World - December
   • The Astrological Bulletin
   • The Magic Art - Donald Holmes
4. magic note re: E. F. Rybolt
5. Magician Bell Chased by South Sea Cannibals - David Bell
6. Magical Dreams of Tomorrow - Adam Hull Shirk ...

1. The Magical Bulletin – Volume 10, Number 1 – June, 1922 – 16 pages
1. Visit from Film Land
2. Magical Clubs Directory
3. Editorial and notes
4. Los Angeles Magicians’ Challenge to Sir A. Conan Doyle
4. magic note re: Elsie Janis and her “Gang” (incl. Dorney)
4. magic note re: Southern California Edison Company
4. Magical Mirth – C. H. Tickell
4. ”Laugh Lines in Ledgerdemain” – George Schulte
5. The Siamese Matrimonial Bands – A. F. Bowen
5. The Coffee Cups – Oscar Brown
6. The Los Angeles Society of Magicians – T. W. McGrath
6. Challenge Box, Rod and Ring Mystery – Patter - Herbert M....

1. The Magical Bulletin - Volume 11, Number 1 - November, 1923 - 16 pages
1. Contents
2. Magical Clubs Directory
3. Editorial and notes
3. Statement of Ownership
4. Reviews
   • The Sphinx - October
   • The Magic World - September
   • The Magic Wand - October-November
   • The Magician - July
4. News and Notes
4. More Magic by Christianer
   • The Reversed Card
4. Another Version of Wine and Water Trick - Walter H. Mack
5. Nate Leipzig at [Los Angeles] Magicians Club Dazzles with Clever Card Feats - A. H. Shirk
5. Another "Die Through Handkerchief" Effect - C. H. Tickell
5. "B. D." Magical Millinery - Bert Douglas
6. Magical...

1. The Magical Bulletin - Volume 12, Number 1 - November, 1924 - 16 pages
1. Contents
3. A Chat with You - and notes
3. Statement of Ownership
4. Literature
   • The Sphinx - October
   • The Magician - August
   • The Linking Ring - October
   • Magic of the Depots - 1924 - Harry Leat
   • The Magical Monthly - Vol. 2 No. 1
   • Peppy Picture Stunts - Harry C. Bjorklund
4. The Box of "Choy Fong" - G. C. Bowen
4. Magical Moments - George F. Schulte
4. For the Benefit of the Poor - Prof. Lipka
5. News of The Los Angeles Society of Magicians - G. E. Baxter
5. Francis J. Martinka
5. The Cards Change Color - T. Page Wright ...

The complete inside dope on the Magic Bar Act and Soda Fountain Act where you can pour a seemingly endless number of tasty drinks from a single bottle.

Here's a swell addition to your regular act - a routine that appeals to most any audience. For adults, you pour whiskey, beer, sloe gin fizz, a vodka martini - and other drinks - which are then served to your audience. And, unlike other inexhaustible bottle routines, this isn't colored water; the drinks actually have flavor and are refreshing. Perform it on a regular nightclub floor. Or do it behind the bar at your local watering hole. You'll...