You will find tricks with bills, cigarettes, coins, matches, silverware, napkins and salt shakers, all things which are readily available at any restaurant or dinner table.
This ebook was written for the performer, professional or amateur, who is seeking good, well-tested effects which do not require elaborate practice, preparation, or skill.
Martin has chosen only tricks which make use of objects found at any dinner table. All are performed while seated, with spectators on both right and left. A few of the effects are original, but most of them have been picked up from friends who picked them up from friends, so it was impossible to trace them to their origin.
Since After the Dessert was such a success, Martin wrote a second booklet with similar impromptu tricks for the table: Over the Coffee Cups.
Table of Contents
- BILLS
- The Curious Fold
- Naming the Date on a Borrowed Bill
- Four Piles and a Dollar Bill
- CIGARETTES
- The Unreversed Word
- The Magic Inhale
- Biting the Cigarette
- COINS
- Coin Through the Plate
- Vanishing Coin
- Testing the Half Dollar
- MATCHES
- Lighting a Match twice
- Color Changing Heads
- Folder Mathematics
- Shooting the Match
- Match Folder Wager
- The Nazi Cross
- MISCELLANEOUS
- Tapping Table Objects
- Japanese Paper Bird
- Vanishing Coffee Steam
- Travelling Fountain Pen
- SILVERWARE
- Table Knife Through Body
- Breaking the Spoon
- Bending the Spoon
- Swallowing the Knife
- Musical Knife
- Spoon to Knife
- Vanishing Spoon
- NAPKIN
- Character Reading from the Teeth
- Improvised Brassiere
- The Invisible Hair
- SALT SHAKER
1st edition 1941; 22 pages
word count: 6669 which is equivalent to 26 standard pages of text
