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From the introduction:

• ...Vergilbte Blätter: Zaubermeister Kassner - Dr. Teumer
• Magische Kostbarkeiten: Die Eintagsfliege von Zaubermeister Kassner

• Magische Kunst - hier und heute - Dr. Morgenstern
• Meine Pagoden-Illusion - Dipó
• Mary - Paufler
• Der fleißige und der faule Klaus - Jahn
• Meine Musikbox - Lehmann
• Tuchverschwinden aus der Tüte - Kaufmann
• Svengali - Paufler
• Die Kugel-Box - Großkopf
• Milch-Wasser-Tüte - Kaschner
• Nur ein Seidentuch - Wolfram
• Impromptu Three - Andra
• Die Auslese - Thielemann
  • Die sympathetischen Farben - Stemberk
  • Der Bücherwurm - Korim
  • Verschwindungskiste für lebende Tiere - Ron Edwards
  • Na, so was! - Verrall...

A specially-recorded hour-long interview of Don Driver (interviewer is the late David Alexander) that gives history, insights, and advice on how to make money selling the most popular trick deck in the world. Don also tells many stories and anecdotes of how he got into magic, side shows and ultimately pitching Svengali decks.

He was the magic consultant for...

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).

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   • The Complete Don Alan Chop Cup Book
   • The Chalice Chop Cup
   • The Bazar de Magia Cups and Balls/Chop Cup Combo Set
48. Masterclass
    • Mindful Coins – Gary Jones
    • Order Order – Gary Jones
50. Reviews
    • Cryptical Envelopment – ebook - John Hostler
    • Essentials in Magic – The Svengali Deck – DVD - Daryl
    • Grab That Pinhead – DVD – Dan Garrett & Bob Sheets
    • Heritage – mentalism effect DVD - Martin Adams
    • Recall – 2 DVD Set – Tom Crosbie
    • Kid's Show Selection – book - Ian Adair
    • Spider Pen Pro – effect/prop – Yigal Mesika
    • The Boof – ebook...

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44. Mind Control

    LESSON 3. THE LARIAT KING

44. Inventing Magic
45. The Lariat King
45. How the Trick Is Done

    LESSON 4. THE AFGHAN BANDS AND THE CUT TURBAN

50. How to Make the Afghan Bands
50. How to Work the Turban Trick

    LESSON 5. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, 1: FORCING

56. Forcing and Forcing Decks
57. The Svengali Pack
57. Forcing Sleights: The Fan
59. Forcing Sleights: The Slip
60. Another Knife Force
61. The Telephone Trick

    LESSON 6. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, II: LOCATIONS

63. False Shuffles
64. The Tap Location
66. The Glimpse
68. The Spelling Master
70. The Stripper Deck
71. The Long Card
71. The Double Card
71. The Short Card ...

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: History: The Name Game
• Chapter 2: The Concept of Duplicate Pairs
• Chapter 3: Short / Long vs. Long / Short Configuration
• Chapter 4: Handlings for the Svengali Hybrid
• Chapter 5: Multiple Card Selections
• Chapter 6: The Blue / Red Set-up
• Chapter 7: Rough & Ready
• Chapter 8: Non-Gaffed Arrangements
• Chapter 9: Variations on the Theme – Jazz Deck
• Chapter 10: Marked & One-Way
• Chapter 11: Self-Contained Card Delivery System
• Chapter 12: The Pseudo-Copy...

Terry wanted to be able to show a packet of cards, shuffle them and have someone just look at one and then he reproduces it. He didn't want to use marked cards or some sort of stack, but he wanted it to be sure fire. As a result he came up with Force This.

While the method is not new, it is known as the Siamese Svengali Pack (see for example Encyclopedia of Card Tricks or Greater Magic), the way Terry uses it in combination with business cards and a paper clip makes this a very practical and innocent looking method.

1st edition 2013, 5 pages.

Volume II (June 1944 - May 1945), Jean Hugard, editor

70 pages

53. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 1 - June 1944 - 4 pages
53. The Lamarque Rabbit Vanish
54. Routine with a Svengali Deck - Tom Bowyer
54. The Rice Bowls - Roger Barkann
54. Impromptu Daub - Gerald L. Kaufman
55. Magnetic Fisherman - A. Heller, The Card Board Lover
55. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
55. Silks - tip
55. Producing a Rope - George Engel
55. 3-2-1 - A di-abolical Deception - George G. Kaplan
56. Classified Advertisements

57. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 2 - July 1944 - 4 pages - The R.M. Jamison Special Number
57. The Oracle Speaks ...

1. ... Spoof - Paul V. Mullen
571. "Jerk-Back" Palm Improved - Harry Lorayne
571. Thimble Transpo - Charles S. Ames
572. Drinks from the Air - Jean Hugard
572. Magicana - bits of wisdom
572. The Linking Rings - Jean Hugard
573. News and Views on TV Magic - Norman Jensen
574. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Stuthard's Svengali Subtleties - Joe Stuthard
     • Kalman's Novel Passe Coin Routine and Climax - Bill Kalman
     • Sharp Magic - Val Don
     • Puppetrix - William Larsen
575. Bert Allerton's Crazy Cards - Martin Gardner
576. Allerton's Wrist Watch Trick (see page 555)
576. Classified Advertisements

577. Hugard's Magic Monthly...

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.

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117. Cover - Christmas Edition
121. Odd Magical Facts - Frank Fewins
121. At the Parent Assembly Reception for Mrs. Houdini
121. A Letter to Santa - Bill Larsen
121. Merlini Mentor [Clayton Rawson] Recuperates
122. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
123. Carlyle's Evolution of a Rabbit in a Hat - Carlyle
124. Slayton Finds Svengali [U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office)
124. Birth of a Trick - Walt Kaeber
124. Cards Together - from the notes of Caryl S. Fleming
125. The Hindu Liquid Trick - Jack Gwynne, Jim Conley, Frank Herman, Fred and Helen Rickard & the Editors
126. Trapping the Spy - Julian J. Proskauer
127. The Tibetian Priest's Prayer Chain - Caryl S. Fleming
127. New Zens Trick Free!
127. Excuse Us...

1. ... B. Bobo
370. I've a Code in My Head - Gerald Kosky
371. Smart Stuff - George "Mandroop" McAthy
371. Readers Digest Discovery - James A. Lucier
372. Magic in New England - Vynn Boyar
373. Color Riddle - Glenn G. Gravatt
373. The Card in the Balloon - Irving Joslyn
374. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • The Pitchman's Svengali Routine - Eddie St. John
     • Street Fakir Act - Tommy Windsor
     • Whims--Wiles--Wizardry - The Wizard Watson
     • Dope Sheet No. 10
     • The Linking Ring, June
     • The Sphinx, May
     • The Conjurors' Magazine, May
     • Tops, June
     • Hugard's Magic Monthly, May
     • Phoenix Nos. 125-127
     • The Bat, June
     • Pentagram, April
     • The Modern Magi, May
375. Magigals - Geraldine Larsen
     • I.B.M. Convention ...

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   • Penny Ante
333. Results of the Genii-Orben Poll - Robert Orben
     • Article Two
335. P.C.A.M. Convention News - William W. Larsen
336. P.C.A.M. Convention Snapshots
339. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • Pentagram, February, March & April issues
     • Trilby Deck - Joe Stuthard
     • Stuthard's Svengali Subtleties - Joe Stuthard
     • magazine test - Milbourne Christopher
     • Card Tricks Without Skill - Paul Clive
     • Stars of Magic, Series 5
       • No. 1: Dai Vernon's Impromptu Cups And Balls
       • No. 2: Dai Vernon's Ambitious Card
       • No. 3: Dai Vernon's Mental Card Miracle
     • Over the Coffee Cups - Martin Gardner
     • Paul Fleming Book Reviews Nos. 142-144
     • Phoenix Nos. 176-177
     • Tops, June
340. Gerald Kosky - biographical sketch
340. Nineteen Forty-Nine T.A.O.M. Conclave
341. Holden Hospitalized
341. Video Magic - The...

• Lassoo A Silk
• Playing Cards
• Follow-Up Lassoo A Silk
• The Talking Frog
• A Card Vanish From The Table
• A Card Turn Over
• A Mental Effect
• A Champagne Production
• A Cigarette Production
• Linking Silks
• Rising Cards A La Svengali
• A Silk Vanish Opening
• Variation Triangle Silks
• A Perfect Glass Balance
• A Floating Record
• Cutting A Rope In Three
• A Folding Table Screen
• Silks In Loop-Holes
• Bottles To Doves Transformation
• The High Light Of The Show
• A Dove Or Rabbit Vanish
• A Card Fan Production
• Two Silks From The Air

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.

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   • Griff on Cards - Tony Griffith
   • Publicity Tips for Amateurs and Professionals on the Way Up in Show Business - or The Do-It-Your-Self Show Biz Flack - Fred A. Woodress
   • The Magnet scheduled to reappear
   • 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson
   • Psycho-Gizmo, Vol. 3 (Nos. 25-36)
   • Backstage with Magigals, February & March issues
   • The Silent Messenger, March
   • Barney, March
   • La Wain's House of Magic list sheet
   • Supplement to the M.C.A.
344. M.D.A. Forward March - Ed Dart, Publicity Chairman, M.D.A.
345. Twenty-Five Years Ago In Genii - Geraldine Larsen Baker
346. Magician's Guild of America, Inc. - Georgia Kondos

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   • ... Sticks - Edwards' The Magic Shop
   • special cards - Joseph Roseberger
   • Sponge Balls - Magic Center
   • Roydon's Magic Wand - Roydon's Magic co.
172. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • My Favorite Card Tricks - Harry Lorayne
     • Joe Stuthard's "Famous" Svengali Trick Pack of Cards
     • A La Zombie - Ian Adair
     • Tips Galore - Aavelle [sic] and Andree
     • Thanks for the Help - Ken de Courcy
     • Sorcar TW'sGM
     • New Jinx, September
     • Backstage With Magigals, October
     • Profile, August
     • Cigam, July
     • La Wain's Big List No. 88
     • Edgar Heyl's Catalogue No. 76
     • Silent Messenger,...

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438. Magicians' Guild News - Seymour M. Heilbron
438. Letters

445. Genii - Volume 37, Number 11 - November 1973 (published in March 1974) - 44 pages
445. Cover - Paul Fidler "The Magic Hawaiian"
447. In This Issue - contents
455. The Genii Speaks - Bill Larsen
456. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
457. Schizophrenic Svengali - Russell Thornton
457. Instant Location - Russell Thornton
458. Visible Materialization - John R. Olsen, Jr.
459. Playtime Puzzler - Robert K. Miller
460. The Jumping Flea - Glenn Gravatt
462. Visible Silk Appearance - Glenn Gravatt
462. Joining the Colors - Glenn Gravatt
463. Pockety Pair - Len Hollyman
464. It's Only My Opinion But - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
465. Magicana...

1. ...The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
607. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
608. Penetrative Pencil - Glenn Gravatt
609. A New Square Circle - W. James Guidry
610. Erdnase's French Cousin - Russell T, Barnhart
611. The Devil Made Me Do It - Tom Crone
612. Cups and Balls Opening - Doug Maihafer
613. Rainbow Paddle - Bob Bradley
614. Svengali Revisited - Renny Schoonmaker
615. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charles Miller, editor
     615. A New Kling Klang - William B. Dodson and Charlie Miller
     617. Intermission - Charlie Miller - letter from Paul Britt
618. Three Faro Puzzle Solutions - Murray Bonfeld
618. Another Cigam Puzzle - Ronal (Ron Allesi)
619. Bon Marché - Jay Marlbrough - First of a Series ...

1. ... Expanded - Glenn Gravatt
27. Coin Bender - Wm. S. Birdsall
28. Puzzled Forecast - Lovall Buchanan
29. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charles Miller, editor
    29. Two Ideas - E. Raymond Carlyle
    30. Intermission - Elizabeth Wilson
31. Index to Genii Volume 41 - Dale Salwak
35. Hints on the Use of a Svengali Deck - Doug Maihafer
36. Robert Harbin (February 12, 1908 - January 12, 1978) - Eric Lewis
38. Theo-Doré Honored on 85th Birthday
39. Looking Forward On My 85th Birthday - Theo-Doré
41. cartoon - Mickey O'Malley
42. Knights at the Magic Castle - Peter Pit
44. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature...

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   • ... Notes of Bill Nagler, M.D.
   • Lines, Quips and Ad Libs - Bill Nagler, M.D.
   • M-2-3-4! - Bill Nagler, M.D.
196. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • Modern Handcuff Secrets for Magicians - Dick Norman - reprint
     • Good Night Mr. Dante - Val Andrews
     • Real Svengali Pitch - Lee Jacobs Productions
     • Willard the Wizard poster - lee Jacobs Productions
     • Ventriloquism: Magic With Your Voice - book - George Schindler
     • Close-Up Magic of the Masters - Jack Flosso
     • OICUFESP #2 - Howard Adams
     • Magic of Custom Advertising - Larry Schalk
     • Kitain Twist - Don Kitain ...

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52. Magicana - Richard Kaufman
    52. Coins Across 2000 - Greg Webb
    54. Poor Man's Prayer Vase - Jon Allen
    56. Vertical Elmsley Count - Mike Richards
    58. The Jennings Tapes - Larry Jennings
        • Dissertation on an Old Trick, Part II
    60. Sheridan Speaks! - Jeff Sheridan
        • The Svengali Envelopes
    62. The WebbMaster - Gregg Webb
        • Cards to Ball
68. Light from the Lamp
    68. Books Reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss
        • Theater of the Mind - Barrie Richardson
        • 21st Century Card Magic - James Swain
        • Sports and Pastimes
    71. Tricks Reviewed by Danny Orleans
        • Phobia - Kevin...