Magic & Mentalism: page 289

A very well constructed method and routine for the classic coin in the bottle effect which does use a solid coin.

Even though there are many good routines, they all seem to have flaws. Most detrimental is the fact that a folding coin’s elastic band can break at an inopportune time, and another problem is that whenever a performer has to access a pocket to retrieve or ditch a coin it becomes a suspicious move.

These problems are dealt with nicely during Ray Roch’s Impossible coin in the Bottle routine. The hands never leave the performance area and always remain in sight. A solid coin...

Imagine challenging an entire room of people to simultaneous games of Tic Tac Toe (aka. Noughts and Crosses). Everyone plays against you at the same time, and you boldly state that you will not lose one game in the room. You could even be blindfolded. True to your word you don't lose one of the games.

Although you won't always win (some will be a draw), you won't ever lose when you apply this fool-proof system known to very few.

This is not a gag but rather a proven system for pulling off a demonstration of just what's possible when you commit yourself to consistently work a proven plan. ...

This hard-to-find text on trumpet mediumship and fraudulent spiritism is now updated and better than ever.

Audiences enjoy seeing the psychic entertainer reveal the inside secrets of fraudulent mediums. And now, thanks to this rare old manuscript, you can. We love the title, for it really sets the mood, as the manifestations described take place in the dark, around the séance table. This is just the ticket for hosting a regular series of entertaining séances at your home, or that of your client.

And that's not all. Only in this edition is revealed a modern-day source for obtaining a...

Still No Skill? Still Absolutely No Problem!

"This one is really, really good." - Mike K.

Seldom does a card trick leave your audience groveling at your feet, women throwing themselves at you and the IRS auditing your tax returns. Sure, parting the Red Sea may be more impressive, but after your hands, in a dazzling digital jitterbug, cut five packets to reveal four Aces and a Queen - and then top that by immediately reassembling the deck and cutting another five packets to reveal a Royal Flush - well, even Moses would have to acknowledge, that's pretty damn slammin'.

And that's just...

Instantly find any card called for by spelling out its name. No sleight of hand requested. No force.

This is Ken's version of "Magic Spell" by Hen Fetsch. Although it looks incredible, with a simple preparation of the deck you will be able to immediately find any card named by someone in the audience simply by spelling it. You will be able to do this with different spectators one after the other. Yes you can take out the pack of cards and spell any of the 52 cards...and, yes, the Joker too.

In the complete instructions by Ken de Courcy you will find in detail how to do the simple preparation...

19 Lektionen für angehende Zauberkünstler. Einem Magier über die Schulter geguckt: Die Schule der Taschenspieler.

Henry Hay, ein Meister seiner Zunft, weist Sie in die Magie der Schwarzen Kunst ein. Daß Zauberei eine Frage der Fingerfertigkeit (und Geschwindigkeit) ist, das erfährt der Zauberlehrling schon mit der ersten Lektion. Schritt für Schritt enthüllt Henry Hay die Geheimnisse vieler Tricks und Zauberkunststücke - etwa: wie man eine Zigarette verschwinden läßt, am laufenden Band Seidentücher herbeizaubert oder durch verschlossene Kuverts liest.

Das alles erzählt Henry...

Eine Kinderprofiroutine.

Aus dem Vorwort von Eckhard Böttcher:

• VORWORT
• DIE DREI ZAPPZERAPPS
  • Utensilien
  • Vorbereitung
  • Vorführung
• VARIANTEN und TIPS
  1. Kleinkinder- bzw. Kurzversion
  2. Tip von Heinz Karany ...

Blur the line between coincidence and prediction. A creation Kevin Parker kept secret until now.

The spectator stops you on any card as you deal cards into their hand face-down, and the card they stop on matches the card in their other hand, e.g. 2 black aces or etc. The apparent impossibility of this is reinforced by the fact the deck is normal with 52 different cards which they shuffled beforehand; no deck switches. The deck they examine/shuffle is the same deck dealt into their hand, which they can examine before and after, leaving them with no explanation.

• requires no special decks...

You use a trio of three inch craft store hoops in an up-to-date routine that takes less than thirty seconds to perform. By resisting the temptation to overdo this classic you will surprise audiences with a modern day upgrade. Includes a tutorial video.

1st edition 2019, video length 47s

[A less detailed version of this trick can be found in Direct Hits.

Three strong effects with an unexpected climax. This routine can last for several minutes and although it is very easy to perform, you will produce three strong effects due to the gimmicked deck that you can easily prepare in ten minutes.

EFFECT

The performer shows a deck and shuffles it. A card is selected by a spectator and openly placed in the middle of the deck. A coin is vanished. The deck is cut and on the bottom portion there is the vanished coin. Below the coin is the selected card.

Another card is selected and replaced in the deck. The words WHO IS THE GREATEST MAGICIAN?...

Script(s) and full handling on a routine for finding cards with your fingertips. Plays for duos, or solo performers in parlor, stage, or even closeup. Performance video included.

Effect: The magician has 3 cards selected from a red deck. A spectator has also shuffled a blue deck. From that blue deck, the magician finds the exact same cards selected from the red deck using just his sensitive fingers.

A trick and variations on the script for:

• a duo act where one person plays the mystic, and the other is an interpreter.
• an act where the assistant gets the credit for doing the trick. ...

This is a fascinating PDF that should be in every magician’s reference library. This contains new material never revealed before by Devin Knight. Imagine that you can create effects so impossible, that the only solution that an audience could have is that the person is a stooge.

Imagine, that you point out to an audience, that the effect you are about to try appears so impossible, that you will take some measures to ensure that the people who come on stage are completely at random, not stooges or confederates and beyond your control. Yet, meeting these conditions, the people who come on...

A virtually self-working ACAAN with plenty of audience involvement.

We all know whenever the audience tries to reverse engineer or recreate a trick and fail at it; they conclude with a common statement - He must have done something sneaky.

The Fortuitous ACAAN works to counter just that. It brings wonder out of the hands of the performer at the same time ensures that the control always rests with him. Here is how it goes:

A deck gets shuffled by 4 people while 3 other people decide on the Number, Value and Suit. The shuffled deck gets collected and the cards get dealt face-up and the...

With thanks to Leo Behnke for the initial concept from his book Corporate Presentations and his permission to share it here, this has proven itself an energy producing closer for many of my corporate shows over the past twenty-five years.

The magician proposes a fun game of Bingo to close his program, and Bingo cards are distributed to everyone in the audience. As the magician hosts the game - drawing and calling the numbers, audience members begin to cross out squares on their Bingo sheets with each person crossing out different squares from those around them. Due to the fact that there are sixteen completely different...

This magazine was the house organ of the "Magic Shop of the West". It started as a small free newsletter that grew into a full fledged magic periodical with original trick contributions.

1. Thayer's Magical Bulletin - Volume 13, Number 1 - June, 1948 - 16 pages
1. cover photo - Charles Kirkham
3. Inside the Cabinet - Bill Larsen, Jr.
3. Pipe Lines - Bill Larsen, Jr.
4. Suggested Routines - Edw. W. Myers
4. Why Doesn't Someone ...? - Bill Larsen, Jr.
5. Interesting Combinations - Bowman and Clark
5. So You Want to Play Casuals - Dale Williams
6. Be Careful What You Say! - Pat Fitzgerald
6. Whispers - Bascom Jones, Jr.
7. Old Timer Recalls - Jerome Isaacs
7. Put Your Act to Work - Bill Larsen, Jr.
8. Talk for Tricks
   • Patter for Multiplying Golf Balls - Pat Fitzgerald
   • Patter for Mutilated Parasol...

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 ...

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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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...