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Samuel Berland

Samuel Berland

(USA: c1904 - 27 May 1987)

Pro close-up. Teamed with Harry Faber as "The Faberlands". Since 1925, dealer in Chicago, originally in partnership with Joe Berg and Harry Faber. In 1926 Berland was bought out by Berg and founded the Central Magic Company in Chicago, which he sold to J.C. Fabian in 1954. 1986 AMA Creative Fellowship.

Prolific inventor, including Enchanted Cigarette Holder (in 1935), Devil Dollar (by 1940), Coinception (1946), Sparko (by 1948), and U-Can-Do Cards (marketed in 1950).

Wrote Berland's New and Original Tricks (1933, 42pp), Novel Cigarette Tricks (1934, 48pp), Xclusive Trix (1935, 25pp), Berland's Biltrix (1940, 7pp), Match-effex (1940), Blue Ribbon Card Tricks (1942, 27pp), New and Original Tricks with Watches (1942, 64pp), Berland's Book of Routines (1950, 30pp), More Exclusive Tricks (1961), Tricks for Today and Tomorrow (1970, 32pp), The Close-Up Magic of Sam Berland (1986), etc. Tricks in Genii.

Coauthors: T. A. Whitney

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Samuel Berland
Still More Exclusive Tricks by Samuel Berland

Continuing with even more pro-quality close-up and platform effects, here's a worthy second volume of Berland's exclusive magic. Long out of print, this collection includes several miracles that Berland sold separately through magic dealers the world over.

Partial contents:

  • A Blockbuster Opening - A very colorful and surprising "Opening Trick" that can be performed under any conditions.
  • Routine for the Coin Through Borrowed Handkerchief - A handkerchief is apparently cut and restored. Also included is a variation of the trick in which a leaking fountain pen adds a hilarious comedy situation. ...
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Samuel Berland
Exclusive Tricks by Samuel Berland

Berland and friends bring you sixteen beautiful effects using silks, balls, cards, canes, watches, cigarettes, liquid, and more in this updated and expanded edition. Long out of print, this manuscript contains a pair of mysteries by Tenkai, as well as several baffling effects by Berland, as well as some choice bits by his friends.

Partial contents:

  • The Homing Cup of Lemonade
  • Popping Silk
  • Challenge Quadruple Cigarette Vanish
  • Samson Cane Trick
  • Vanishing and Reappearing Thimble
  • Watch and Chain to Handkerchief
  • Double Color Change
  • Flash Cigarette Package to Box of Matches
  • Tenkai Figure...
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Samuel Berland
More of Berland's Exclusive Tricks by Samuel Berland

Here are more brilliantly conceived magical effects for platform, TV and stage by that master of amazement, Samuel Berland. Long out of print, this slim volume fills a need for commercial, visual magic that makes the performer look like ... well ... a magician.

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INTRODUCTION

PERFECT RESTORED BILL. A torn and restored effect with a borrowed, marked bill.

RABBIT OR BOWL OF WATER PRODUCTION. A clever production effect, easy to make and perform.

CHALLENGE JUMBO CARD TRANSPOSITION. Two jumbo cards change places. Cards can be examined before and after. ...

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Samuel Berland
Berland's Blue Ribbon Card Tricks by Samuel Berland

Twenty-five complete card miracles and moves with over 100 illustrations.

Top performers including Bob Hummer, Dai Vernon, Arthur Buckley, Dr. Harlan Tarbell and others reveal their favorite card effects here for the first time. Here are new effects, for close-up, parlor and stage presentation. Ready-to-work effects, sleights, color changes, revelations and clever routines that you will be proud to perform.

One hundred pen-and-ink illustrations by master artist Thomas Libonati make everything clear.

CONTENTS

  • Before the Shuffle
  • Five Card Baffle (Hummer)
  • One Hand Visible Card Change (Berland) ...
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Samuel Berland & T. A. Whitney
New Applause Winning Tricks by Samuel Berland & T. A. Whitney

Here are more beautifully routined professional effects to add to your act, from the minds of Berland and Whitney. The experts agree that the effects in this book are applause-getters. We concur, as well. Not just one or two, but seven separate routines that you'll want to put to use right away. The crystal-clear illustrations by Herb Borin and Mickey O'Malley make it easy to follow every move.

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Super Card Impalement - A card stab effect using two knives that reveal the selected cards from a pair of spectators.

Triple Magical Surprise - Three lit cigarettes...

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Berland's Bill Tear Secrets by Samuel Berland

Perhaps the best torn and restored bill effect the magical world has ever seen.

A magical inspiration that comes once in a blue moon. A sensation of the I.B.M. and S.A.M. conventions. After you've read the following effect, you'll say it's impossible. And so will your audience, when they see you perform this bill tear.

Effect: The performer reaches into his wallet and removes a dollar bill. To preclude the possibility of exchange or duplicates, the performer requests someone in the audience to mark the bill in any manner they wish. His hands are carefully shown to be empty. There is no...

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Samuel Berland
Tricks with Watches by Samuel Berland

Tricks, sleights, and routines with watches.

Paul Fleming wrote:

No one who has seen Gus Fowler's vaudeville act with timepieces will doubt that magic with watches can be both interesting and mystifying. We cannot guarantee that Tricks with Watches will enable its readers to duplicate the financial and artistic success won by Mr. Fowler, but it will acquaint them with sleights and tricks which they will almost certainly be tempted to introduce into their programs.

Of the four chapters into which Mr. Berland divides his book, Chapter I is devoted to sleights with watches; Chapter 2, to complete tricks...

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The Berland Book of Routines by Samuel Berland

Take your magic to the next level by incorporating one or more of Berland's beautifully choreographed routines into your act. This is magic that makes audiences, booking agents, and club owners sit up and take notice.

Not just one or two, but eight separate routines, using items already owned by most magicians. The performances are well-thought out, clearly described, and with 147 illustrations, easy for most any performer to understand and put to use. Just look at what's included:

  • A Word to My Friends in Magic
  • Routine Impromptu
  • Astrological Forecast
  • Liquor Finish for Cups and Balls ...
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Tricks with Paper Cups by Samuel Berland

Although this booklet was written in the 40s, paper cups are still ubiquituous objects. Go to any fast food restaurant and you will find them, or at parties, at the company water cooler, picknicks, fairs a.s.o. This makes paper cups an ideal item for us magicians - great for an impromptu miracle. Sam Berland teaches 25 amazing tricks, from vanishing liquids to appearing silks in cups. Almost any magical effect can be achieved.

You too should know at least one trick with a paper cup for the next discussion at the water cooler.

1st edition 1942; 26 pages.

  1. Introduction
  2. Liquid Vanishing Cup:...
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