Search Results: page 13

Conjuring tricks with cards balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, etc.

This is a surprisingly interesting book edited by W. H. Cremer. It includes an early precursor of the Chop Cup. (See The Magic Dutch Balls.) It has interesting information on gambling, cheating, and scams. The chapter on 'Magic Writing' is a wonderful history of cryptography and steganography. The chapter on animal training is one of the most detailed I have encountered. It also includes a wealth of magic tricks, science experiments, and effects based on apparatus.

• Part I. Modern Magic By Sleight Of Hand...

This was the first Magician Annual Will Goldston compiled and edited. It covers quite some ground. From juggling and optical illusions, to ventriloquism and palmistry. Of course you will find also magic illusions, tricks and patter. And if you want to read a little bit about hoop rolling, you can, too. These Magician Annuals are real fun to read. They are a great window into the past.

1st edition 1908, Gamage Ltd., London; 98 pages.

4. The Editor to His Readers, Will Goldston
5. Juggling Manipulations, Paul Cinquevalli
7. Crayon Drawing for the Stage, J. F. Burrows
8. Barrel and Packing-Case Tricks,...

1. ... and Possibilities, Everhart
39. A Section by Selbit
41. Home-made Apparatus, Geo. Johnson
44. How I Became a Magician, Hercat
49. Mr. Harry Gait
50. An Effective Hand Shadow, Warwick Lethbridge
50. Suggestions, J. Weaver Innes
51. Indian Tricks, Alvaro
55. Chapeaugraphy, Will Avis
59. Well-known Artistes, Baron Low
60. Indoor Magic, Jay Gee
63. Patents

All six issues of 2009 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Pete Firman, Keith Barry, R. Paul Wilson, David Copperfield, J C Sum & 'Magic Babe' Ning, and Guy Bavli.

In this special issue of the Magical Arts Journal, Paul Harris gives his entire act. In his opening statements, Michael Ammar says:

Volume 23, Number 5 - Volume 24 Number 4
January 2014 - December 2014
Stan Allen & Associates
Stan Allen, Editor

1200 pages

1. Magic - Volume 23, Number 5 - January 2014 - 100 pages
1. Cover - David Oliver
5. Contents
7. From The Editor - Stan Allen
   • Why History?
8. Letters to the editor
8. Finally Feedback
10. 10Classic Correspondence from Egyptian Hall Museum - Mike Caveney
    • Chefalo to LeRoy
15. For What It's Worth - Mark Kornhauser
    • OMG! Maturity!
17. Walkabout Soup - Simon Coronel
    • Performance Enhancing Drugs
19. Magic Update
    • Play Dead in California
    • A...

Vol. 14, No. 2, May 2018; 60 pages
Cover: Morgan and West

5. A Word From The Editor
5. Contents
6. The Mailbox - Your View - Have Your Say
8. Morgan & West - Well Suited to Success! - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
16. In The Phonebox with Freddie Davies
18. Lookalikes!
20. Just For Fun! - B & B Heaven!
22. Masterclass
    22. A Paper Ball Force - Andrew Musgrave
    23. Alberico Magic SP - Attis Aimar Garcia
26. Pros & Cons - It's All a Matter of Opinion - Online advertising Better than Offline Advertising - Mark Leveridge
27. In The News
28. Shout Outs - Here are some special 'extra' announcements from a few of our...

All six issues of 2015 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Mel Mellers, Anthony Owen, Alan Rorrison, Piff (The Magic Dragon), Mark James, and Kostya Kimlat.

Vol. 16, No. 3, July 2020; 64 pages
Cover: Matthew Wright

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. What's Inside This Issue
6. Matthew Wright - Locked-Down, But Not Out! - cover article/interview by Graham Hey
12. Working Close Up Outside - How to deal with the vagaries of al fresco magic - Mark Leveridge
16. The Convention - comedy - Mark Leveridge
18. A Little Bit of Business - Part Two - Ian Brennan, AIMC
22. Covid-19 And Magic - What Next? - Mark Leveridge
24. Nikola Arkane - Success Is No Illusion! - interview
32. In The Phonebox with Madison Thompson
34. Reader's Letters - Have Your Say
34. cartoon - Sergey Diomin
38. The BM...

Vol. 19, No. 4, September 2023; 60 pages
Cover: Carisa Hendrix

4. Welcome to Issue #110 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Pete Firman - Tricktok - Interview by Phil Shaw
14. Enigma - Interview with Christian Grace
18. Masterclass
    18. Ultimate Payoff - Andrew Normansell
    19. Cut-Up Cards - Ian Adair
22. Cubeography - Kev G
24. The Bochord Club - Iain Moran
    • Ultra Cervon - Bruce Cervon & Stephen Minch
26. The Satisfaction of Creativity - Matthew J. Downen
30. Carisa Hendrix - Lucid Dreaming - cover article by Andi Gladwin
36. A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic - book by Tom Adams and Jasmine Floyd

Vol. 19, No. 5, November 2023; 60 pages
Cover: Marc Kerstein the App Man

• Readers' Letters
• Fraser Parker
• Masterclass
• The greatest trick that magic forgot
• Cube magic origins
• Marc Kerstein
• Bochord Club
• Quick guide to magic apps
• What will happen to book tests?
• Card Foolers
• Darwin Ortiz
• Product Reviews
• Stewart Francis one-liners
• Readers' Tips & Advice

This book is filled with a variety of interesting articles, from trick descriptions to patter suggestions, from biographical information to theory. Among others there is a trick contribution by Houdini. This book is layed out beautifully, almost like a magazine. Overall a very nice and interesting book to read.

1st edition, 1910, The Magician Limited, London; 106 pages.

3. Index
5. The Editor to his Readers
7. The Scribe, The Failure, and The Magician JOHN KEYMAN
10. Amateur Conjurer's Accessories GEORGE JOHNSON
12. The Magic of Suggestion PROFESSOR HOFFMANN
14. New Patter for Popular Problems WOOLFE CLYNE
23. Wine v. Water CHRIS VAN BERN
25. Telepathic...

May-August 1946
Irv Feldman and David Robbins, editors

Un-numbered cover pages are indicated with i, ii, iii, iv.

1. Magic Is Fun, Number 2 – May-August, 1946 – 28 pages
1. cartoon – Art Ross
2. The Editor Says:
2. Contents
2. Our Readers Say:
1. photo – Dell O’Dell
2. Dell O’Dell, Queen of Magic – Robert Orben
3. Mind Reading DeLuxe – D. C. Luther
5. Mental Telephony – W. H. Radcliffe
5. cartoon – Art Ross
6. Wartime Wizardry – by Aden
7. Magic Cones
7. Hindu String Trick
7. The Mirror Card
9. Houdini Speaks – Joan Wolf
9. Broken and Restored Match
11. A Trick with Dice
11. Smelling a Card
11. The Siberian...

September-December 1946
Irv Feldman and David Robbins, editors

Un-numbered cover pages are indicated with i, ii, iii, iv.

1. Magic Is Fun, Number 3 - September-December, 1946 - 28 pages
1. cartoon - Lawless
2. The Editor Says:
2. Don'ts for Amateurs
2. Contents
2. Letters From Our Readers
1. photo - Bill Neff
2. 20 Years of Horror with Bill Neff
4. Rouclere Jr. - by Jack Hale
4. Scissors Sorcery - Larry Britenstein
5. The Liquefied Block - Herb Davis
6. The Strange Death of Chung Ling Soo - Robert Orben
7. Glass and Coin Mystery - Arnold Benson
7. Balancing a Glass on a Card - Joan Wolf
8. How to be a Ventriloquist...

Many effects from famous magicians such as Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Fred Keating, David Devant, T. Nelson Downs, Ross Horwitz, Nate Leipzig and of course Faucett Ross himself.

• PREFACE
• A Magician and his Magic
  • Faucett Ross
  • Letters to Charlie Miller
  • The Beginning
  • The Business Side
  • Rules and Common Sense
  • Practice
  • The Magician
  • Showmanship
  • A Bargain
  • Advice on Programmes
• Section One: HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • A Glass and a Silk
  • The Colour Change
  • Handkerchief Box Routine
  • Cut, Burnt and Restored Handkerchief
  • Novel Addition
  • Handkerchief Cane
  • Producing a Silk
  • Fountain of Silks
• Section Two: AN ORIENTAL FLAVOUR
  • Snowstorm in...

A fantastic lecture by the king of street magicians, Jim Cellini. While you will learn a number of wonderful routines, the really special stuff is everything else, the equipment he uses, the way he performs, etc.

• Hank Routine
• Coin Routine
• Cigarette Routine
• Rope Routine
• Cups and Balls Routine
• Color, Sound and Movement
• The Pitch
• Costumes
• The Pouches
• The Rope
• The Table
• How to Get a Crowd?
• Working in Restaurants
• Inside the Costume and Topit
• The Hats
• Keep It Simple - The Gypsy
• Passing the Hat
• Slydini's Thumb Tip
• Coin Magic
• Vanishing Coins
• Cigarette Magic
• Cigarette Eating ...

"Magician's Magic is an appropriate title for this ebook because the author, Paul Curry, is surely one of the world's best-known 'magician's magicians.'" The words are those of Martin Gardner, Scientific American's mathematical divertisements editor, himself a distinguished amateur magician and author.

"For some thirty years, Paul Curry has been inventing tricks and sleights of such beautiful simplicity that they have become standard items in the repertoire of close-up performers of magic throughout the world."

The performing of magic draws practitioners from every field - doctors, lawyers, actors,...

This magic news sheet only saw two issues, March 15th and March 29th, 1924. It was published by George Johnson and the editor was Wilfrid G. Jonson.

March 15th, 1924:

• The First Appearance
• "Riffles"
• Bosco?
• On the Road / Lawrence Glen
• Maskelyne's Mysteries
• What's On?
• The Spelling Bee / Wilfred G. Jonson
• A Mysterious Card Release / J. Whitehead
• The Magic Circle

• Clairvoyance and Conjuring
• Carl Hertz
• Conjuring and the Kinema
• The Curse of Originality
• The Magician
• "Riffles"
• The Acrobatic Card / George Joyce
• The Dyeing Handkerchiefs
• Side Shows of the Past / George Johnson ...

Twenty-five choice messages or object lessons from texts of the Bible are illustrated very effectively with tricks of magic and mystery. Perfect for the magician who wishes to perform before a church audience, whether it be a Sunday School group, church social, or other occasion.

Each effect is fully described and illustrated if necessary. Citations from the Bible for each lesson are provided, too. A great book for the magical entertainer, magi-minister, and Sunday School teacher.

"Tricks with a minimum of apparatus with patter to tie them in to Bible texts." - Harold Sterling

"Easily workable effects...

1. ...
115. Stage Equilibrists
117. The Electrified Envelope
119. Lamp-Glass, or Electric Machine?
121. Experiments in Primary Electro-Magnetism
124. The Punishment of Tantalus
125. Buttin the Wall
127. A Very Awkward Broomstick
129. The Five Straw Trick
130. To Lift Fifteen Matches with One
132. The Bent Match Problem
134. The Infernal Machine
136. The Magic Javelin
138. How to Make a Lamp Chimney Smoke a Cigarette
140. The Pyramid of Glasses
142. The Triplet Glasses
144. The Bottle on the Keys
146. The Improvised Plate Support
147. A Pair of Scales made out of Threads
149. The Steelyard Balance
151. Candlestick and Watch-Stand
153. The Magic Ball
155. A Novel Vaporizer
156. The Blown-out...

• ... the most distinguished inventors and outstanding magical feats of the last century.
• Part THREE deals with the author's approach to magical creation, illustrating practical examples of effects and their solutions.

This is a compilation of issues 7 - 12.

• Making Your Personal Mark by Jim Sisti
• At the Bar with Ray Mertz
• The Antagonistic Audience Member by Scott Wells
• Ask the Only by Al the Only
• The Business of Bits by Mark Leveridge
• Reviews
  • "The Complete Works of Shake-Sphere" by Neal Prete
  • "Utopia Card Fram" by Mark Leveridge
  • "Top Drop" by Shigeo Futagawa
  • "Close-Up Connivery" by Dan Garrett
  • "Card to Wallet - the Book" by Jerry Mentzer
  • "Challenge Magic!" by Richard Osterlind
  • "How to Master Booking Shows over the Phone" by Bill Hall
• Walk-Around Malini Egg Bag by Dan Tong
• Cheap Labour by David Acer
• Behind Bars by Chris Hurlbert ...

This is the special "Double Issue" of MAJ featuring the magic from the French magic publication, Arcane. At the time of this special issue, Arcane was a bi-monthly magazine published in France by Jean Yves Prost and Michel Balandras. The magazine featured the who's-who in magic, and yet was mostly unknown to English-speaking magicians. This was the English language debut. Michael was allowed to hand-pick material from the 13 year old publication to include in the this double issue. See the incredible table of contents below. The issue even includes the Hofzinser Spread Control, which Michael uses frequently...

In this ebook, Marc Dibowski, author of some bestselling books in Germany, shares ideas and effects for a magic act in the holiday season.

Add a touch of winter and Christmas to your kids show, stand-up, mental or close-up act. In addition to ideas on props, you will also find routines and ways to tailor your act for Christmas without high expenses, without lots of props, without laborious efforts.

The ebook is completed with information on Christmas characters, links to marketed effects including sources and information on Christmas traditions in different countries. You will use some...