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 ... initially under own name. Soon turned to teaching and writing booklets on specialized subjects in magic. His first was the 93-page Expert Billiard Ball Magic (1910), an instant success and also the first step-by-step photo-illustrated how-to magic book. Subsequently a prolific author. Invented Svengali Deck (1909), Menetekel Deck (1910), and probably the Floating Lightbulb (by 1931). Retired in Florida. Although an important figure in magic, his often outrageous claims and many empty promises led him to be widely known as 'Hurling Bull'.
Used many pseudonyms, including 'Clif Westfield' (in 1907), 'The White Wizard' (1912-18), 'Gilbert Galt' (pen name of novelettes in pulp magazines... | |
 ... Magic and a Scotch and Soda set, Cameron's interest in magic was rekindled. Although this time, instead of being fascinated with ornate boxes and tubes, he became enthralled with sleight of hand magic. This was a big step for him as the only card tricks he previously performed had the words “ Svengali” or “Invisible” printed on the box. He would, however, remain a bit of a closeted magician for several years until his wife Beth gave him the encouragement to take it to the next level and start performing magic professionally.
Today Cameron works both as an actor on stage and screen and as a close up magician. He currently lives in North Central Florida with Beth and daughter... | |
 (San Jose, California: 13th August 1955 - 24th February 2017)
Inspired by and learned from a family friend's gift of a Svengali deck. Pro close-up since 1972, mainly with the 31 tricks of his own invention such as Ultimate Ambition, Double Dazzling Triumph, Half and Half, Jumping Knot of Pakistan, and Cardboard Chameleons. Aka "Daryl" since 1980. Repeated tours of Europe and Japan. A major performer and lecturer.
1978 IBM 1st place in close-up; AMA Best Close-up Magician, 1980, 1981; 1982 FISM 1st prize in card magic; 1985 Desert Magic Seminar 1st prize; 1988 AMA Best Parlour Magician; 1989 and 1993 AMA Best Lecturer; 1993 Desert Magic Seminar 2nd prize.
Wrote ?Daryl? (1980), Daryl's Lecture... | |
 (Lamesa, Texas: 22nd April 1948 - 21st April 2019)
Learned by working in a San Antonio magic shop. Pro. Worked as "Corny the Clown" c1964 as magic-clown assistant for travelling magician Daniel "Little Red Riley" Combest. In 1968 pitched Svengalis for S. David Walker at the Texas Hemisfair. 1979 FISM 1st prize in close-up; 1985 FISM 1st prize in card magic.
Invented FISM Flash (1973), Cornelius Card System (by 1980), etc, and popularized Terge Nordnes's effect as Fickle Nickel (c1972). Wrote Cornelius Card System (1980) and Magician's Datebook (1981). See Pallbears Review and Mad Magic #42 (1982) for all-Cornelius issues. Other tricks in Epilogue, Magic Manuscript, and MUM. Audio (1986).... | |
 Inspired at age 5 by a Svengali pitchman and gifts of a Svengali deck and Cups-and-Balls. Invented Cardboard Connection (1977), Twilight and many others. Pro close-up until late-1980s when briefly switched to film industry as scriptwriter (initially for Nice Girls Don't Explode). In 1989 again on magic lecture tour in USA and abroad. | |
 Magician, Svengali pitchman, and cold reader. | |
 Don started his magic career in the late 60's working at the Yogi Magic Mart in Baltimore MD, his home town, owned by the notable Phil Thomas. From there he moved to side shows and later he was inducted by David Walker as svengali pitchman. Don has worked as pitchman for more than 30 years and is considered the best svengali pitchman alive today.
The svengali pitch was originally created by Mickey MacDougall in 1935. In the 1940s S. David Walker learned the pitch directly from Mickey. And Don learned the pitch from David. Don is therefore in the direct line of the svengali pitch ancestry. | |
 Chris has created and shared routines with over a dozen magic magazines over the years (including a One Man Parade in The Linking Ring). His first three booklets, Ten Mysteries, Investigating The Mene-Tekel Deck and Beyond Svengali were published by PH Marketing. Magical Wonders published his Zodiac Principle booklet and his largest collection Magic For Everyone was published in 2006 and contained over 60 effects. His book Mathomagic was released generally and aimed at teachers and parents to encourage their children with math. Whilst an enthusiastic and creative magician Chris is a teacher by profession and so was perfectly suited to write the latter book.
He was the magic consultant for... | |
 (USA: 1906 – 17th March 1996)
Learned in 1917 as apprentice to Horace Goldin as Indian boy in rope trick and in 1918 by reading Erdnase. Semi-pro cardman, including working a Svengali pitch cross-country and at 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Sometimes did a nightclub act. Then a gambling investigator and lecturer, competing bitterly with John Scarne in 1940s. Later left magic to be a stamp and coin dealer.
Wrote Gamblers Don't Gamble (1939, 166pp, with J.C. Furnas), Card Mastery (1944, 81pp), MacDougall on Dice and Cards (1944, 90pp), Card Mastery (1944, 81+205pp), Don't Be A Sucker! (1945, 80pp), and MacDougall on Pinochle (1951, 90pp). Memoir is Danger in the Cards (1943, 319pp). | |
 (Canada: 16th September 1911 - 27th April 1992)
Aka "The Canadian Funatic". Learned in the 1930s from books (including Erdnase) and working carnivals, fairs, and streets. Invented Trilby Deck (1949) and Stinger Kliptrik monte trick (1950). Wrote Svengali Subtleties (1948, 19pp) and Stooging Around (1949, 34pp). Moved to Britain.
In 1953 co-founded (with Harry Baron) The Kaymar Magic Company in Billericay, Essex County, England, where he worked briefly. Moved back to Canada and then around 1956 on to Australia where he ran a travelling magic pitch stand in Sydney for several years until retired, leaving the business to Rod Junor. | |
 (USA: 1950 - July 4th, 2013)
Stage name of Ian Sutz. Dealer (Ian's Magic Factory) in Florida. Authored 3 booklets, including The Best Dam Tricks (1980), a monograph on the "dental dam" as magic prop, and books on the stripper and svengali decks. | |
(USA: 1940-1967) Learned at age 14 from apparatus tricks he bought from dealers. Three years later, bored with these, he turned to sleight-of-hand. Semi-pro close-up artist. Worked a Svengali pitch for Dave Walker. Author and lecturer. Wrote (with Al Aldini) The Best of Benzais (1967, 108pp). Tricks in Pallbearers, Gen, The Bennett Touch (1986), and Magic Afoot (1988). | |
 Gene Marvin flourished during the 1970s and 80s when he was a Las Vegas-based mentalist. He was billed as "The 21st Century Man". He had several TV bits, performed for the Playboy clubs, and did a lot of corporate engagements. He was married to Carmel. In the late 80s he pitched Svengali decks for Don Driver. Wrote Confidential Mental Secrets (~1970, 87 pages). | |
... (The Wizard's Shop in the 42nd Street Subway Arcade). Invented the Deck on the Ceiling (1958) and Blanka Deck (1959). Invented the process for making spongeballs by machine, later adopted by Goshman.
Wrote 75 Tricks with a Stripper Deck (1957, 48pp; 2nd ed rev, 1962, 40pp) and 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck (1964, 40pp). Many tricks in Hugard's Magic Monthly. | |
103 Tips and Resources for MagiciansDustin Marks ... - ... to make your scripts better.
- Tip #11 Learn the secret of how to never forget your props.
- Tip #14 Do you have the Anverdi Mental Dice/Die? Learn how to wake them up right in front of your audience without suspension.
- Some of magic's best principles explain all in one ebook: One Ahead, Equivoque, Svengali, Rough and Smooth, Dual Reality, Preshow, Gilbreath, Multiple Outs and more.
- Everyday items for magicians: Amazon and Other Sources with links to each item.
- Learn an easy way to organize all your decks. See tip #29.
- Looking for a graphic artist? See tip #31.
- Great way to organize your...
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110 Tricks with a Svengali DeckMagic Ian The Svengali Deck is an ingenious magic deck of cards. You can learn over 110 amazing tricks and routines. Some of the tricks you will be able to do:
- Show a normal deck - then change all the cards to the previously selected card.
- Seal a card in an envelope - then have spectator pick the card in the envelope.
- Spectator stabs the deck - the selected card is where the person inserts the blade.
- The selected card appears in your pocket or anywhere else.
- The card that was selected appears anyplace where the spectator cuts into the deck.
- and much more
This is a revision of the Al Stevenson... | ★★★★★ $2 to wish listPDF |
23:23Dee Christopher ... you can PHYSICALLY feel.
This is a collection Dee has kept to himself for a long time, despite many, many requests for release. You'll see why very soon...
Sylla-code: A unique 2 person code anyone can learn.
Morse: A spectator is mind-reader effect utilizing the Sylla-code principal.
Svengali Toss - Remastered: Thoughts on the classic Hoy effect, 3 spectators merely peek a card from the deck in their hands and with no moves you are able to reveal each one with pinpoint accuracy.
Altered - Version One: A marked coin is placed in the spectator's own hands where they physically... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
25 Methods For Switching DecksFloyd D. Brown ... just as he performed it for years on the vaudeville stage. Some of the methods involve no apparatus, others rely on props owned by most magicians.
Paul Fleming wrote:
Lovers of card magic have devised many set-ups (or systems of prearranged cards) and various types of prepared packs (such as Svengali, Mene Tekel, "strippers," and "longs and shorts" to mention but a few), which enable them to perform tricks far more astounding than can be presented through sleight-of-hand alone, even by the most skillful performers. The remarkable effects produced with "special" decks are described in... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
25 Miniature MiraclesSupreme-Magic-Company
A series of clever little tricks, made possible with the specially printed miniature cards as originally supplied by Supreme Magic.
- Forcing a Card
- One-Way Force Deck
- Svengali Deck
- Rough And Smooth Deck
- Classic Fan Force
- Henry Christ Method
- The Handkerchief Force
- Simplicity Force
- Another One
- Effect No. 1. A Prediction Gag
- Effect No. 2. The Card Knife
- Effect No. 3. Card Catching
- Effect No. 4. A Betcha
- Effect No. 5. Wise-Guy
- Effect No. 6. Crystal Gazing Extra-Ordinary
- Effect No. 7. Caxton’s Dream
- Effect No. 8. Sixteen Cards
- Effect No. 9. World’s Fastest Pass
- Effect...
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25 One Man Mind Reading SecretsUlysses Frederick Grant U. F. Grant presents several clever ideas on billet reading or how to use a svengali deck for mentalism. He also has a completely different version of "Grey Elephants in Denmark".
- Bill Reading
- Name Duplication
- Impromptu Test
- Best Digit Test
- Cards Impossible
- In Their Pocket
- Up & Down Test
- Thot of Person
- Card Projection
- Lites Out
- Dunninger Type Act
- Another Dunninger
- Weekly Prediction
- Committee Test
- Thought Projector
- Private Lives
- Lobby Tip-Off
- Directory Test
- Houdini Bill Reading
- Glass Clipboard
- Mental Table
- Flaming Answer
- Fake Questions
- Flower-Color-Animal
- Mass Mind Reading
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Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks Volume 1Stewart James ... - ...
- ...The Hypnotized Rope
- Grant And Maillow's Ropes Of Bengal
- Herman Hanson's Climax Rope Trick
- Percy Abbott's "Easy-Do" Rope Trick
- U. F. Grant's Amazing Rope Trick
- Chapter 9: The Hindoo Rope Trick
- Rupert Slater's Moth And Rope
- The Pocket Hindoo Rope Trick
- The Vanishing Boy
- Dunninger's East Indian Rope Trick
- Svengali's Rope Climbing Trick Of India
- J. K. Wright's Indian Rope Trick
- David Devant's Hindoo Rope Trick
1st edition 1941, 498 pages; PDF 232 pages.
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Aces in Deception or "How Right You Are"Lewis Ganson An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."
From the introduction:
Here is one of those card routines in which the happenings are inexplicable to the uninitiated. The handling of the cards is so natural and each move is performed so deliberately, that trickery appears out of the question, yet a series of effects take place which really are uncanny.
To begin with, I will confess that a Svengali pack is used throughout and... | $10 to wish listPDF |
Bammo Gaffus MaximusBob Farmer ... - ... deck and appears in another.
- THE TELE-PSYCHIC-OMATIC DECK: A card thought of by the spectator vanishes from the deck leaving a double blank and the three mates.
- ENCEPHALONIC PREDESTINATION: The magician predicts two selected cards.
- OCTA PREDESTINATION: The magician predicts two selected cards.
- SVENGALI PREDESTINATION: The magician predicts two selected cards.
- JACK TO THE FUTURE: Any card named by one spectator contains the name of any card selected by a second spectator.
- SVENVOODOO: A sort of "Any card at any number," but done twice.
- DEJA VOODOO 2.0: Any card named by the spectator is...
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Beyond Svengali: applying the svengali principle to mentalismChris Wardle & Paul Hallas  Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again.
Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |