Magic & Mentalism: page 30

Walter Schwartz a member of the SAM and IBM wrote for many magazines among them The Sphinx. A total of 38 practical tricks is presented in this booklet. Not all effects are Walter's own, but many are. You can find quite a number of mentalism pieces, some card tricks, even a rabbit production is described.

1st edition 1933; 38 pages.

Glass through table is a classic of magic that is at least a hundred years old. You can even find it described in children magic books. The key to this effect is misdirection which requires a good amount of showmanship and spectator handling. Otherwise it is pure simplicity. With the tips and presentation by J.C. Wagner you will turn this classic into a modern and entertaining miracle.

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Going GaGa is a new ebook by Graham Hey containing some brand-new material and a couple of little-known classics brought up to date. They're all easy to do and brilliantly effective. You'll probably have most things you need to do these tricks - cards, duplicates, envelopes, etc.

Going GaGa is a great mentalism effect and a total 'magician fooler'. It's clever and easy to do. The performer hands a prediction to a spectator. Two spectators are given a pile of cards each. The first spectator shuffles his cards and selects any one. He is handed a list of celebrities and counts down - if he...

The Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused ebooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key performance areas. The ebooks are written in an easy to understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.

The first volume in the series is entitled Going Walkabout, and it contains 28 pages of important and valuable information about how to make a success of working close up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement...

After 70 years in the magic business Glenn Gravatt compiled this wealth of effects and tricks, all are provided with presentation. They are generally speaking easy to do and do not require exotic gimmicks or apparatus.

• Introduction
• Chapter One: Some Unique And Unusual Wonders
  • Chameleon Spots
  • Gravatt's Instantaneous Triple Penetration
  • Crazy Colors
  • Color Spots Get Together
  • Punctured Poker Chip
  • Crystal Tube And Patriotic Blocks
  • Block And Cord Escape
  • The Wonderful Thingamajig
  • Stab-A-Ring
  • String Loops Entwined
  • Color Changing Cards
  • New Floating Ball
  • Visible Penetration
• Chapter...

From the Foreword by Harry Blackstone, Jr.

• Dedication
• Thank Yous ...
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Watch Closely
  • Gulliver's Nickel
  • The "Slaphappy" Coin
  • Floating Foam
  • The Write Word
  • Confuscious Say
  • Changing The Change
  • A Mouse In The House
• Chapter 2: Card Concepts
  • E.Z. Bridge
  • A False Swinger
  • The...

Grab Bag includes a grab bag of previously published items as well as a couple of new items. Methods vary from the over-complicated to the burdensome to the easy to the easy - as soon as you print a few props - to easy as soon as you learn the method. Included are the following:

WHAT IS PRECOGITIVE JEOPARDY?

Everybody's favorite game show with a few predictions. USA based effect. "Temporary Magic" as in there are limited uses and the method may expire at some point.

DIET WITCH CAN

A science experiment given a Witch Trial story line with a kicker magic ending.

MELTABLE MELT TABLE ...

From the introduction:

U. F. Grant contributed some of his best material to the Tarbell Course in magic. Most of this material is unique to the Tarbell Course and does not appear elsewhere. Before Grant died, he compiled a manuscript containing all of the material he contributed. It ranges from close up to stage illusions. A lot of magicians don't have the original Tarbell Course, so here is your chance to get all of the tricks he created and contributed in one place. Fully illustrated and one of the best buys in magic. This is stuff you will use and do and as Harlan Tarbell said, some of the best magic in his course.

One of the best tricks that Grant created was Ghost...

Imagine being able to offer a challenge that you will do a trick with any object, any member of the audience might have on them. Yes, you can do just that and with complete safety and no fear of failure.

The advertising and publicity possibilities with this act are unlimited. Challenge your friends or family to stump you. Advertise that if someone in the audience stumps you, then they don't pay your show fee. This will give you a competitive edge over other magicians in your area.

HOW WAS THIS ACT CREATED: At a meeting of the I.B.M, Grant commented to another magician, "Wouldn't it be...

This rare manuscript by U. F. Grant, originally sold as The Devil's Scrapbook, contains a lot of interesting material. Hidden in its pages are some little gems that you will not find anywhere else. There are no long descriptions of the methods, as Grant himself explains. He goes directly to the point. The style is typical of Grant and we made only some minor corrections of typos.

From the introduction:

This is a collection of picked items taken from an exclusive scrapbook....items that would have normally been sold separately at One...Two....Three Dollars A Piece. We are not going to...

In the 1960s U. F. Grant release his last set of secrets. He sold these as Grant's Secret Service. These secrets sold for a dollar each. You get 24 secrets in one PDF. Here is what you get:

1. Aerial Fishing - Catching live gold fish on end of line . . . Any pole and line . . . Items in local stores.

2. Dramatic Pantomime Torn Card - Card tossed in air, caught and torn into small pieces . . . Visibly restored, as tossed in air. Card actually torn, not pulled apart like old methods.

3. Nu-Question Answering - Written questions sealed in envelopes, collected and mixed . . . Place each...

From the foreword:

65 tricks, gags, tips and ideas with money, cards, wands, cigarettes, watches, rings and more.

• Greetings
• Comedy Ice Cream Cone
• A Comedy Wand
• The Leaky Wand
• Another Pen Idea
• The Vanishing Pen
• Magical Extraction
• Sucker Laugh
• The Egg Cup
• An Old Timer
• Grant's Repeat Watch Idea
• A Timely Trick
• Cigarette Pull Idea
• W. R. Williston Idea
• The Greatest Miracle Of All
• The Matchless Match Trick
• A Long Time
• The Comedy Watch Chain
• Tips On Tips
• E. E. Hammil's Tip
• Gene Gloye Gag
• Pardon Me
• An Eye Popper
• Bowl Of Water Production
• A Tip By Swabi
• A Gag By Swabi
• Snake And Can Trick
• Sure...

This is an interesting compilation of material - a mix of short portraits and Goldston's personal recollections of various magicians - some famous, some not, as well as some of their tricks and secrets. The result is a fairly extensive collection of tricks of all kinds and denominations. Includes many illustrations and photos of the contributors.

The first edition was issued in the same style as Goldston's famous Locked Books series, but without the clasp.

Excerpt from the introduction:

From the introduction by Horace Goldin:

Excerpt from the Foreword:

A most practical and visual restoration. This is a visual trick that will leave your spectators totally speechless. Gum Pack looks like real magic. Best of all, the gimmick is always ready to go at a moment's notice.

• good angles
• easy to make
• easy to perform

1st edition 2021, video 8 min.

Here's a great collection of self-workers that can be achieved with some of the stuff most magicians will have at hand. For a couple of effects, you'll have to buy some items, but you won't have to spend more than a few dollars. And it will be well worth it!

Eight effects, all easy to do. Including:

EAT TO THE BEAT - a fun effect using a balloon and a free choice of card ...

I PREDICT A RIOT - The magician makes three predictions and the first two are wrong... but what about the third?

SIGHT FOR SORE EYES - A pirate's eye-patch and you'll be able to make a fabulous prediction. ...

This is a substantial collection of magic tricks in a wide variety of categories, including puzzles, stunts, and science experiments.

• Preliminary
• I.—Simple Tricks
  • Fly Away, Jack!
  • Dance, Boatman, Dance!
  • Buy A Bird
  • Little Watchman
  • To Add Five To Six And Yet Make But Nine
  • To Carry Hot Coals In The Hand
• II.—Simple Tricks With Coins
  • The Coin Trick, From An Hibernian Point Of View
  • The New Trick Of Melting Money
  • To Reduce A Shilling To A Sixpence
  • The Uncrushable Flower
  • The Flying Cotton Reel
  • The Obedient Sixpence
  • The Invisible Transit
  • The Die And Dove Trick
  • The Coin Wand ...

From the Introduction:

• Introduction
• "A Rose By Any Other Name - "
• Beelzebub's Bookmarks
• Two Little Dicky Birds
• Old Ted
• Wet Paint!
• Observation And Deduction
• "Staring Me In The Face"
• Little Willie's...

• Giant Blunderbore’s Matches
• The Posy
• Twin Souls
• A Fake Blindfold
• Card Jugglery
• Carnival
• Again, The Ring On The Stick
• Snakes And Ladders
• To And Fro
• Carroty Kate And Sandy Sam
• Apple Blossom And Peach
• Confusion In The Ark

This ebook contains five full length effects, achieved with minimum sleights, all based on the plot, intrigue and characters from the popular board game Cluedo, or Clue, as it is known in the States. Each effect involves and engages the audience fully and are easy to do. All you need to do is provide the dramatic art bit!

Murdered (Again!)
As Dr. Black moves around each room in his mansion his killer anticipates every move. Moved by a spectator, with free choice of room or direction, around a plan of his home. Dr. Black is eventually cornered in a room previously predicted.

Choose your...

When one of magic's most clever minds teams up with an award-winning magician and illustrator, you know the result will be unique effects that play strong and is so clever that even magicians are fooled. And that's what you get with Hahne and Berg's Here's Magic.

There is literally something for every performer within these 96 pages. Effects with cards, coins, silks, a gambler's monte effect using a single matchbook, club magic, a stage illusion that predates Copperfield's Statue of Liberty vanish by some 50 years (but with a similar method), mentalism effects, the award-winning poker chip...